tall buildings Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/tall-buildings/ Mon, 14 May 2012 18:59:55 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 “I’ve been told that the tallest building in hell has an awesome view of the emerald city” https://ounodesign.com/2012/05/14/green-tinted-glasses-emerald-city-vancouver/ https://ounodesign.com/2012/05/14/green-tinted-glasses-emerald-city-vancouver/#respond Mon, 14 May 2012 18:59:55 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=13952

Heard those lyrics over the car radio last week. I did not know that the Emerald City was close enough to hell that you could actually see it from there, but that whole geography sounds a lot like Vancouver.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2012/05/14/green-tinted-glasses-emerald-city-vancouver/feed/ 0 The End of the Age of Tall Buildings https://ounodesign.com/2011/10/12/end-of-the-age-of-tall-buildings/ https://ounodesign.com/2011/10/12/end-of-the-age-of-tall-buildings/#respond Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:26:15 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=12367 Vancouver towers from Wikimedia Commons

[Update: see post on this topic on the Vancouver Lights blog. Also see this critique of glass highrises by Lisa Rochon in the Globe and Mail.]

Apologies that this is such a long post.

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This is the odd fog inversion Vancouver has been under for most of January. Anyone living close to the harbour is now seriously over the supposed charm of the foghorns, which blew approximately every forty seconds all night long, every night for weeks.

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