Actually it’s even more beautiful.

Thanks, Canadian Design Resource. Many others have written me to agree, but since architects in BC are not allowed to criticize the work of other architects according to the draconian and 19th C-style rules of the Architectural Institute of BC, they can’t comment publicly. These rules don’t exist in other jurisdictions; there should be an uproar about it. Tell the AIBC! http://www.aibc.ca/
These rules are yet another reason for the decline of architectural quality in this town. An interesting young architect who recently made an alternate proposal for a building complex in Vancouver that was razed by a very suspicious arson fire was recently reprimanded by the AIBC. Apparently by the very act of making an alternate proposal for this public site she was inadvertently criticizing another architect’s proposal. There has been a fair amount of exasperation out there among architects but due to the constraints, no one can even effectively oppose the AIBC’s opposition.