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Robert Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Comparisons to residential schools are out of line…

…this is more like a maximum security prison.
If architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was right when he said “God is in the details,” then the conceptual drawing for Youth For Christ’s recreation centre renders a Godless box.
This is architecture formless and [...]

Don’t try this in Chicago.
The dreaded surface lots in the background are about 70% full, so most of these were shot during weekday business hours.
The problem here is that all parking downtown is 2h restricted, forcing you into a private lot if you want to drive to work, and guaranteeing fines for overnight guests of [...]

Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
Headed south down Waterfront Drive on an unseasonably warm November afternoon, the row of new condo buildings lining the winding roadway met my eye.
Architecturally, none of these buildings are notable for anything but average attempts at cartoonish “heritage” design, but taken together, perhaps with eyes squinted a little bit, they gave [...]

Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
It’s easy to get excited about the plans Red River College has for the Union Bank tower on Main Street. Built in 1904, it is a true example the early skyscrapers, not only by virtue of its height, but by its adaptation of classical orders to a tall building. Reaching 11 [...]

Cancelbot on NewWinnipeg.com has this to say about the poor station design of the BRT:

Robert Galston, The Uniter
Of the transformations that changed the face and fabric of Winnipeg’s old neighbourhoods in the past 60 years, none have been as sudden, total and tragic as the development of the Lord Selkirk Park neighbourhood in the 1960s.

Transit Riders’ Union of Winnipeg:
I totally agree with you and believe that the downtown part of the rapid transit should be built underground from the start and no other system considered for the central area.  Other parts of the system could be built underground as finances permit.
Gordon Linney

Most TRU Winnipeg readers have heard the news: The Exchange District’s grandest row of buildings, along the south side of McDermot Avenue between King and Princess Streets, is in the crosshairs of Manitoba Hydro, which aims to build a substation on the site where three century-old buildings now stand.

Countless commentators & bloggers have asked the [...]

So after the groundwater is taken out of the subway tunnels, what to do with it?

Well, this afternoon I read that some of it is used to fill the fountains at Buckingham Palace Park in London England.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2001/2001-01-25-10.asp
London Turns Rising Groundwater Into Liquid Asset
LONDON, United Kingdom, January 25, 2001 (ENS) – Engineers are finding innovative uses [...]

Another fan of our website speaks out. This one from ‘Jim Cotton’ of PITT:

Subway system only way to go for Winnipeg
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2008/06/14/5874956-sun.html
When will they stop dinking around with transit ?
Go big , or go home. They need to build a subway system in Winnipeg. It will not be cheap. But it will environmentally friendly, warm , [...]