1. Letter to the Editor Re: OMB
Michael Vaughan
In the May 5th issue you wrote, "The OMB plays a significant role in the block busting of neighbourhoods, and destruction of our traditional urban fabric".
No; not so.
In the 1970's the City and Metro were hell-bent on building the Spadina expressway and Crosstown expressway by the mid-town railway tracks. Citizens formed "Stop Spadina" and opposed those expressways at an OMB Hearing. The then chair, Al Kennedy, wrote a powerful decision against the expressways. His decision gave the rationale and bought the needed time for the Bill Davis government to stop those expressways.
Were it not for the OMB and Kennedy's OMB decision, neither your neighbourhood nor mine would exist today. Spadina Avenue and the Harbord Village Heritage Conservation District would not exist. Spadina would have swept through the Annex and the Spadina area as a major super-highway with interchanges where it passed under the Crosstown expressway and further interchanges north and south. You would not have wanted, nor likely have been able to live where you now live. The heritage character of the City would have been devastated. Your neighbourhood, mine and many others would have been destroyed.
My heritage house, Woodlawn, needed alterations to be adaptively re-used. The neighbours opposed the required minor variances that had been approved by the committee of adjustment. At their insistence City Council appealed the committee's decision to the OMB which, overruled City Council and authorized the variances which allowed the house to be preserved. Were it not for the OMB, Woodlawn would most certainly have been demolished and replaced with eight mid-block houses.
You know first-hand how hard it is to protect built heritage in many smaller communities as well as in Toronto. Heritage preservation is a long game for generations yet unborn. With heritage as with many other issues, our municipal governance structure poses a stumbling block. Municipal councilors are now elected separately by constituents in and only in their own individual wards. Only the Mayor is elected at large by all the city. Only the Mayor represents the city. So the mandate of the Councilors is not the general public interest of the city, but rather the wishes of their ward constituents.
The OMB, though, as a provincial appointed body, is not beholden to the electors of any particular ward, but makes it decisions in the context of the general public interest and approved governmental policies. The OMB is not always right but it is necessary for our system to work.
Michael B. Vaughan, Q.C. Professional Corporation
2. Will Toronto Embrace the Last Chance for A Big Park at Fort York
Catherine Nasmith
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| Drawing by dtah, Long Range Plan for Fort York, one of many similar visions that have appeared since 1990 |
Fort York is where it is because it was built on a rise of land at the mouth of Garrison Creek and Lake Ontario, creating a defensible position at the mouth of Toronto Harbour. Cannon could fire across the mouth of the harbour to Centre Island. The Fort provided protection for the then small Town of York, located about a mile to the east.
Until the early 1990’s Fort York was almost invisible, surrounded by industry but continuing because of the efforts of Toronto citizens to save it, as a City museum. All that began to change as the industrial glacier began to recede, and the area around the fort was replanned as a new neighbourhood.
As Toronto grows at a breakneck pace, there has been little investment in new parks to match that growth, but the lands north of Fort York provide an opportunity to develop a big park, which would connect to all the other parks around Fort York creating a massive park system.
For decades private citizens and Toronto planners have been showing Fort York at the centre of a great urban park. Many of those pieces are already in place, the Garrison Creek Park system to the north, the freeing of the tree nursery at Fort York to become part of the larger common west of the Fort, June Callwood Park linking to Coronation Park and the waterfront park systems. The new pieces are small, but they link up into a much bigger system.
The last pieces of potential parkland are the lands between Fort York and Weliington, much of it City owned. At the time of Toronto’s founding for a mile around Fort York was all federally owned land, the larger Garrison Common. Many of those parcels are still in public ownership.
One of the obstacles to development in the area has been the presence of Quality Meats, the last of the big industries, but they have announced they are leaving. So a huge tract of land is in play. Quality Meats is located between land the City owns on Bathurst Street, the “Destructor” site at Wellington, and the Public Works salt storage yards. Land exchanges could consolidate holdings into a grand plan, as was done in 1995 for the crazy quilt of land ownership south of Fort York.
The City has been in the process of developing a new plan for the area north of Fort York, the South Niagara planning study. At the last public meeting only a tiny percentage of the potential park was shown “green” on the new plan. What had been shown for years as potential parkland was shown as sold off for new condo development. Various excuses were given, Public Works can’t move, the city needs the money.
Those at the meeting with long memories of the grand plans for the neighbourhood were disappointed to say the least. The planning department and Councillor Mike Layton promised to go back to the drawing board.
The new plans will be unveiled at an event at Stanley Park on June 18, between 3:00 and 7:30. This is an issue that is much bigger than the local planning study suggests, calling it South Niagara, this is the last piece of the cultural landscape around Fort York, the City’s birthplace. Here’s hoping the City doesn’t squander its birthright.
http://mikelayton.ca/open-house-south-niagara-planning-study
3. Susan Buggey Awarded an Honourary Membership in the CSLA
CSLA Release, edited for BHN by Julie Harris
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Susan Buggey, one of Canada’s most accomplished landscape theorists and historians, was the recipient of an honourary membership in the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) at the society’s May 2014 congress. Ms. Buggey has been active in heritage conservation for more than 35 years at the national and international levels. She is a founder of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and a fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology. She led multidisciplinary research and conservation teams for Parks Canada, has advised the ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes and the IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, and made important contributions to understanding Indigenous cultural landscapes. Students in heritage conservation and landscape architecture at the University of Manitoba, the University of Victoria, and the Université de Montréal benefitted from her lectures and courses in historic landscape preservation and cultural landscapes. On behalf of her friends and colleagues in landscape conservation, Linda Dicaire noted that “Susan remains steadfast in her dedication to broadening the knowledge and understanding of cultural landscapes designed, associative and evolved, including those of our First Nations, and of landscape architecture. She has been a mentor to so many and is a true leader. Our profession has grown and become richer nationally and internationally because of the dedicated, rigorous contribution that Susan Buggey has made to it.”
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) is a professional organization with over 1,900 landscape architects as members represented by provincial and territorial associations plus academic programs across the nation. As the voice of the profession in Canada, the CSLA is an advocate for its members on issues such as urban renewal, sustainable development and cultural heritage.
Link: www.csla-aapc.ca/sites/csla-aapc.ca/files/Newsroom/Press%20Release%20Susan%20Buggey.pdf
4. Heritage Canada Cornerstone Awards
Carolyn Quinn
Heritage Canada The National Trust (HCNT) is accepting nominations for the Ecclesiastical Insurance Cornerstone Awards for Building Heritage to recognize excellence in the regeneration of heritage buildings and sites in Canada in two categories: Adaptive Use/Rehabilitation and Infill.
The purpose of these awards is to bring national attention to exemplary commercial and institutional projects, and to recognize the people who have helped make them happen.
HCNT is seeking entries for the juried awards from individuals or organizations, including architects, developers, builders and ownerswho may self-nominateno later than June 20, 2014 in one or both of the following categories:
Adaptive Use/Rehabilitation: projects that demonstrate sensitivity and creativity in preserving the heritage values of a site while making possible a continuing or compatible contemporary use.
Infill: projects that integrate new construction in a historic context in a way that reinforces the character of the streetscape, enhances heritage values and contributes to the revitalization of the complex or district.
Eligible projects must have been completed between 2009 and 2014. For more information on eligibility and decision criteria, see the Terms of Reference at www.heritagecanada.org.
Recipients will be fêted at a gala ceremony as part of HCNTs annual national conference this October.
For further information:
Carolyn Quinn, Director of Communications
cquinn@heritagecanada.org
Telephone: 613-237-1066 ext. 229; Cell: 613-797-7206
5. Toronto Star: Mirvish Gehry- A different approach
Christopher Hume
Revised Mirvish-Gehry design saves Princess of Wales Theatre
Frank Gehry wants to know: What does it mean to be Canadian?
The world-renowned architect was born in Toronto in 1929 but left as a teenager when his family moved to California. Now, aged 84 and still a citizen, he’s back to design a mixed-use complex on King Street West for impresario David Mirvish.
When Gehry’s first proposal was released last year, city officials reacted with fear and loathing. This time he’s back with a plan that even a Toronto planner could love. The towers are taller — 92 and 82 storeys — but there are only two of them, not three.
Even better, the new proposal retains two of four existing warehouses as well as the Princess of Wales Theatre, originally slated for demolition.
“Three towers gave the scheme a sculptural quality,” Gehry told the Star recently. “With two, it ain’t there. But now I think it’s more Toronto. I wanted to give it a sense of dignity. Many towers lack a sense of dignity, not just in Toronto but all over the world. They’re just tours de force standing alone. I was looking for different kind of body language. I was looking for dignity.”
Editor's Note:
Could it be that Mr. Gehry read what I wrote about Toronto architecture, and our traditions of blending new and old and getting York Square, (the template) National The Ballet School, Koerner Hall, and so many other really wonderful projects.
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6. Toronto Star: Princess of Wales Theatre
Martin Knelman
Princess of Wales Theatre reprieve should be cheered
David Mirvish has dropped plans to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and that’s good news for Toronto theatre lovers.
Indeed, in retrospect, I’d say the notion of demolishing this theatre, as per plans announced two years ago, was the worst idea Mirvish ever had.
Now, in the hopes of winning approval from the city for an epic plan to create a huge new King St. W. complex of condo towers plus a podium with art galleries and restaurants, Mirvish and architect Frank Gehry have scaled back their original plans (made public in October 2012).
Mirvish may be disappointed he had to modify his megaproject but, for anyone who lives in Toronto and cares about theatre, it’s a lucky turn of events.
Editor's Note:
Hear, Hear!
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7. Toronto Star: Stain Glass at St. Michael's Hospital
From the vantage point of the chapel pews, the rows of stained-glass windows appear to be in good enough shape. It’s when you take a closer look that the damage of time becomes clear.
“You see it there,” says Jay Manansala. He points up at the small cracks in the angular panels, the peeling, flimsy lead grid holding them in place, and the concave indent, like a depressed wave, punched into a section with a multicoloured icon.
“You can see where the glass is bowed,” he says. “Sometimes the wind does it.”
Manansala’s job is to fix that. He’s part of the team working to restore the 75-year-old windows that line the chapel in St. Michael’s Hospital . The project, slated to take months, is a careful and meticulous process that will involving taking down and dismantling all 10 windows into their smaller pieces, polishing them and piecing them together again inside a refurbished lead matrix.
Editor's Note:
The Art Deco Entrance from Victoria Street is also worth a look.
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8. Toronto Star: The Broadview Hotel Revamp
Christopher Hume
Broadview Hotel
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| Broadview Hotel |
We’ve yet to hear from the Toronto Strippers’ Association or the Conference of Dirty Old Men, but few tears will be shed when Jilly’s finally takes down its dance pole and closes the doors later this year.
The strip club, a fixture on the northwest corner of Queen and Broadview for decades, has fallen victim to the powers of gentrification.
But for many, the only question is: What took so long?
Jilly’s occupies the ground floor of a four-storey building, the New Broadview Hotel, that has been a landmark since the early 1890s. This wonderful Romanesque Revival heap was designed in the same spirit as Old City Hall. At first it appears imposing, even dour, then suddenly, smiling, you notice the
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9. Toronto Star: Market Street Reopens
Patty Winsa
Market St. revival a testament to late developer Paul Oberman
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| Eve Lewis, on Market Street |
Eve Lewis is sitting in one of the new restaurants on historic Market St. when the beautiful green and white bouquet of flowers she has sent to the owner arrives.
Tom Antonosakis peers at the greeting card curiously to see who is congratulating him on the opening day of his restaurant, Market Street Catch, one of seven new eateries that line the street .
The flowers may be for the restaurateur but they also mark a major milestone for their sender, who lost her husband, developer Paul Oberman , three years ago in a plane crash.
Lewis has completed her husband’s dream of restoring the buildings on the west side of Market St. and turning the asphalt roadway into an old-world cobblestone path.
“I was able to focus on this. I was able to focus on Paul’s business and it really gave me something to immerse myself in,” says Lewis, who took over as CEO of Oberman’s company, Woodcliffe Landmark Properties, after his death. The two married 20 years ago and had a blended family with six kids.
The restaurants will all be open by the middle of May and the city will have a ceremony to dedicate the street as Paul Oberman Walk in June.
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10. Globe and Mail: Death of Vincent Tovell
Michael Valpy
CBC producer Vincent Massey Tovell spent his life steeped in the art
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Few Canadians were as steeped in the brew of their country’s culture and arts as Vincent Massey Tovell. Throughout his long life, he was a presence in the nation’s music, its visual arts, theatre, dance and, above all, broadcasting. Mr. Tovell carried the reputation as the CBC’s “most consciously intellectual producer.”
He was a man of charming Edwardian manners and a scion of the patrician Massey family (he was named for his mother’s first cousin Vincent Massey, Canada’s first native-born governor-general and founder of Massey College) and he possessed a beautifully mellifluous CBC voice that identified him from one end of the country to the other.
An ardent nationalist, Mr. Tovell was named an officer of the Order of Canada for his advocacy and exploration of Canada’s cultural identity.
He directed and produced television documentaries ranging from a complex postcolonial scrutiny of the country with scholar Northrop Frye and a penetrating 1967 centennial-year examination of Canada’s environmental, technological and political future – the environmental segment, titled The Earth is a Very Small Spaceship, was a prescient look at Earth’s ecological capacity – to eclectic inquiries into sand, concrete architecture and space.
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11. Globe and Mail: Arts and Crafts House by W.A. Doctor
Kerry Gold
A one-of-a-kind Vancouver home saved from demolition
A one-of-a-kind Arts and Crafts house has not only been discovered, but it’s been saved from the wrecking ball.
Thanks to the perseverance of a Vancouver woman who wishes to remain anonymous, the house, dated 1912, will be relocated to a temporary site until she finds a property for it. It sits on a double lot on the city’s west side, and it had been purchased for development. It would have been bulldozed and sent to the landfill like the other 1,000 houses that end up there each year.
But thankfully, word spread about its pending doom, and the heritage-loving citizen stepped forward and worked out a deal with the builder. She now owns the house and its surrounding lush garden, which is also being moved.
(The exact address is not being disclosed because of fears the empty house might be damaged. There is a 24-hour security system in place.)
Editor's Note:
How many amazing properties like this go undiscovered and are lost
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12. Brantford Expositor: Arlington Hotel, Paris, Ontario
Michael-Allan Marion
Arlington Hotel - a Paris landmark reborn
Between an entourage led by Canadian Olympic Alpine skier Jan Hudec and a wedding party, the Arlington Hotel was nearly all booked and brimming with excitement on its first weekend after re-opening.
New owner Nils Foss said he couldn't ask for a better beginning.
We're getting very positive reviews right away, and its not even our grand opening, he said Saturday. I can hardly wait for that to come in July.
Those positive reviews were heard in abundance from patrons milling in the lobby, by the bar and in the dining room.
Hudec was in the centre of a group of Alpine skiers and associates who booked 14 rooms in the 24-room historic hotel to take in the Friday the 13 gathering in Port Dover and the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group's 42nd annual Paris National Rally.
Hudec, who broke Canada's 20-year drought by winning a bronze medal in the Super G event at the Sochi Winter Olympics and has a partnership with Harley-Davidson, was still enjoying the memory of a ride to Port Dover with close to 30 people the day before.
The group included: his manager, former Alpine Canada president Max Gartner; Brian Nason, a member of the course crew for Alpine Canada and Alpine Ontario; and Canadian Alpine competitor Robbie Dixon from the Vancouver Olympics.
We've been trying to get together for a Friday the 13th for a long time, Hudec said in the lobby, as he displayed his Olympic medal on request.
Brian, who put this together, said 'If you're going, you've got to book rooms in this really nice hotel I know.'
I'm a sucker for old buildings. Have a heritage home myself, it's 102 years old.
When they pulled up to the hotel, Hudec said he had a great feeling.
There was amazing energy, the food was sensational, and that was before I saw my room, he said.
The room blew my mind. Beautiful, huge rooms, made it feel like it could be a destination.
Standing beside him, Nason called the Arlington a spectacular hotel.
It's going to be a nice bonus for Paris.
Said Gartner: I've never been to Paris, and the hotel is impressive. We'll be back.
Click Here for Pics of Arlington Hotel
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13. BBC: Encouraging News from Glasgow School of Art
Pauline McLean
Glasgow School of Art will recover from blaze
The rooms may smell of smoke, the hallways piled high with debris, but it's heartening to see how much of the Mackintosh and its contents survive.
Whole rooms and their contents are left intact. The Mackintosh Room - used for board meetings - looks as if its occupants have just stepped out for a breath of air. The fireplace, light fittings, panelled bureau and distinctive windows show no trace of the devastating fire which swept through the building last Friday.
Editor's Note:
Amazing work by firemen, who must have special training in handling important architecture and artifacts! its their heritage too!
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14. Macleans Magazine: Vancouver Demolitions
Ken McQueen.
Vancouver a Literal Demolition Derby
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Its already our costliest real-estate market. So why is Vancouver, with its green reputation, razing heritage homes?
Under the shade of a towering tulip tree, another piece of Vancouver is being destroyed. By the end of May, most windows were ripped from the 115-year-old Legg residence, and the sound of saws and hammers echoed from its gutted interior. Although the 1899 Arts and Crafts mansion in the citys west end was on the A-list, the highest level of the citys heritage register, its status as one of 260 such buildings of primary significance didnt spare it from the landfill. It makes way for a parking garage and a 17-storey residential tower.
Some 1,000 such demolition permits are issued annually in a city that seems fixated on the shiny and the new. The destruction is changing the character of many neighbourhoods, and it calls into question Mayor Gregor Robertsons commitment to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020, says city Councillor Adriane Carr, a former leader of B.C.s Green Party. The waste and environmental impact of destroying so many older homes undermines the citys green initiative, she says. This is a huge, very rapid change, she says. People are feeling their city is being ripped apart.
With a municipal election looming on Nov. 15, Robertsons left-leaning Vision Vancouver slate is expected to back city staff proposals this week to put a temporary moratorium on the demolition of character homes in the Shaughnessy district, which was prime picking grounds for developers who flatten its older homes and use the large lots to build mini-mansions. A second report would institute a mandatory construction and waste recovery program for pre-1940s houses approved for demolition. Under the program, as much as 40 tonnes of material from each house could be diverted from the landfill, says a staff report. A voluntary pilot program, which encouraged the deconstruction of older homes and the sale of materials, had mixed success and didnt curb a recent spike in demolition permits.
The loss of the Legg residence, which had been carved into rental apartments, is an extreme example of the complexity and competing priorities in a motherhood issue such as greening a city. After residents failed to derail the citys controversial decision to allow a narrow residential tower on the large lot, they were left to debate the best of two bad options. There was room on the lot to accommodate both the tower and the Legg houseor the tower and a beloved tulip tree that soars about 12 storeys and dominates one end of the lot. After public input, the city approved a revised architects plan that saved the tree and trashed the mansion.
For an excellent look at the top ten heritage issues in Vancouver go to this site:
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15. Globe and Mail: The Miller House, Columbus Indiana
Dave LeBlanc
Revved up by a Modern Masterpiece
The little engine that could? How about the big diesel engine that did. Bring Modernism to the little city of Columbus, Ind., that is.
When Joseph Irwin Miller, the man who helped make Cummins Inc. synonymous with diesel engines, decided to build a cottage on the Muskoka island his family had enjoyed since the late 1800s, he turned to his friend, architect Eero Saarinen.
Mr. Miller had met the future Modernist leader – and fellow Yale graduate – in the late 1930s when Saarinen’s father, Eliel, was chosen to design a church in Columbus, Ind., where Mr. Miller ran the family business; in fact, it was Mr. Miller, an architecture enthusiast, who persuaded the senior Saarinen to accept the commission.
Fast-forward to the early 1950s, and Saarinen-the-younger is supervising completion of the Irwin Union Bank (now the Irwin Conference Center), which he described as a building “without any pompousness, absolutely no intention to impress.” Soon after, Mr. Miller showed him 13 acres on the outskirts of town and asked him to create a family home for himself, his wife Xenia Simons Miller, and their five children.
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16. You Tube: Fantastic Video of the evolution of London and its Heritage
Partnership, forwarded by Annabel Vaughan
The London Evolution Animation
The LEA was developed by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL), as a partnership project between Dr Kiril Stanilov -The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (University of Cambridge), Museum of London Archaeology (with the Mapping London and Locating London's Past projects) and using data from the National Heritage List for England, courtesy of English Heritage. It was initiated and directed by Polly Hudson (PHD).
The London Evolution Animation (LEA) shows the historical development of London from Roman times to today, using georeferenced road network data brought together for the first time. The animation also visualizes (as enlarging yellow points) the position and number of statutorily protected buildings and structures built during each period.
Further information on its production can be found below.
http://www.pollyhudsondesign.com/PHD_...
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17. Shanghai Daily: Saving old buildings still a work in progress
Web Editor Wang Yuxia
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| Protected status doesnt always save a building from demolition. Reporter Yang Jian and photographer Wang Rongjiang delve into the story. |
As the birthplace of many of China’s earliest industries, Shanghai has many valuable historic buildings built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They include former company headquarters, earliest chambers of commerce, luxury residences and the earliest middle schools. The mostly wooden and brick structures have fine ornamentation that is rare in modern buildings. Some of the decor have special meanings.
Shanghai has 4,422 protected historic structures, including 29 national level sites — far more than any other city in the country. Some 3,266 of the city’s protected structures were built after 1840. But only a few have truly been protected.
“Many of the buildings were damaged or destroyed during redevelopment, while preservation efforts for other buildings suffered due to lack of government funds,” said Hu Jinjun, director general of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Apart from some historic buildings related to famous figures, many of the structures have been dismantled or damaged to give way to modern urban development. Some have been demolished despite protests from both residents and media while others have been abandoned so they rot and collapse.
Some developers have even dismantled shikumen buildings in order to rebuild them in a similar style to make more money. Jianyeli Lane on Jianguo Road in Xuhui District is a prime example. A developer has razed most of the original homes that had been granted heritage protection in 1994. Now the lane mostly contains newly built villas for lease.
“They are actually fake historic buildings with no value,” said Ruan Yisan, director of the National Historic Cities Research Center of Tongji University.
Ruan says another trick developers commonly use is to hollow out historic buildings, leaving behind only the original gates, roofs and front walls.
Li Zhen, a historic building protection professor with Tongji University, says a lack of money, awareness and technology has put many structures at risk.
Each year, both the city and district governments allocate funds to protect heritage buildings, but it’s never enough due to the large number of structures and the high cost of restoring each one, Li says.
The city government spent 50 million yuan (US$8 million), for instance, to restore the Shanghai Concert Hall, built in 1930 on Yan’an Rd E. Restoration work included moving the whole structure about 66 meters to make way for subway construction in 2003.
Furthermore, many of the historic structures are in the heart of the city where developers can make significantly more money by redeveloping such sites.
However, there is still a gleam of hope.
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18. South China Morning Post: Moving pumping station to Flagstaff House will destroy heritage site
Ken Borthwick
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| The relocation would involve uprooting nearly 100 trees on the site of the former Flagstaff House. Photo: David Sutton |
When will they ever learn? Only a few years after permitting the destruction of the site, setting, landscape and meaning of the former marine police headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui and removing the iconic grade one historic building Queen's Pier, the government is planning another outrage for a monument.
It plans to relocate the Harcourt Road water pumping station to a critical part of the site of Flagstaff House (now the Museum of Tea Ware), formerly the residence of the British military commanders in Hong Kong. It is the oldest Western building in Hong Kong, completed in 1846 for Major General G. C. D'Aguilar and located at the northernmost part of Hong Kong Park, formerly Victoria Barracks.
The proposal allows for the construction of the pumping station, partly underground, straddling the supporting slope of the monument and extending well into what was the original grounds, as enclosed there by a historic fortified wall. The wall features, at one corner, loopholes for defence by soldiers with muskets.
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19. Toronto Star: Jack Diamond and Montreal Concert Hall
Martin Knelman
Architect Jack Diamond behind Montreal musical jewel
MONTREAL—Normally in the world of classical music, architects design the concert halls, including plans for the best possible acoustics, but it’s up to the music director and the musicians to deal with the instruments that will be played.
A striking exception to the rule is Jack Diamond, who has lately earned the global triple crown for masterminding pitch-perfect buildings for listening to serious music in Toronto, Montreal and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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