http://hour.ca/2008/12/11/up-in-the-air/ Urbacom Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:44:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://hour.ca/2008/12/11/up-in-the-air/#comment-2161 Pedro Eggers Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:00:26 +0000 http://hour.ca/blog/2008/12/11/up-in-the-air/#comment-2161 Hah! So the most recent objection pronounced against the project is that it won't blend in with the historic nature of the Old Port. Really? Is financial struggle and poverty part of that historic nature? I'm not saying that I don't see their aesthetic argument but c'mon, architectural feng shui? There's at least a good dozen better arguments to be made than this much less the one that there's NO GUARANTEE that the projected boon will actually happen as expected. This isn't Field of Dreams--just because you build it doesn't mean that they will come. Hah! So the most recent objection pronounced against the project is that it won’t blend in with the historic nature of the Old Port. Really? Is financial struggle and poverty part of that historic nature? I’m not saying that I don’t see their aesthetic argument but c’mon, architectural feng shui? There’s at least a good dozen better arguments to be made than this much less the one that there’s NO GUARANTEE that the projected boon will actually happen as expected. This isn’t Field of Dreams–just because you build it doesn’t mean that they will come.

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