09-22-2017, 07:33 AM
"I know a lot about architecture and materials, believe me."
We believe you.
"You can easily tell apart from one another, those buildings in Waterloo Region which are built to last - and will. They look good and are built good."
It's not so easy for me. Can you give an example of a recent building that was well built and built to last, and a recent building that was not? People keep saying things like "this region has a very low standard for architecture and construction quality," but without giving many specifics us laymen are left to take those people at their word, or not. I know you're making a broad generalization, but what are the patterns you're seeing that make you believe construction here is generally done on the cheap? What are you seeing in, for instance, a building like Red that screams to you "low quality," that I am missing when I look at it and feel that it looks pretty nice and probably on the whole reasonably well-constructed?
We believe you.
"You can easily tell apart from one another, those buildings in Waterloo Region which are built to last - and will. They look good and are built good."
It's not so easy for me. Can you give an example of a recent building that was well built and built to last, and a recent building that was not? People keep saying things like "this region has a very low standard for architecture and construction quality," but without giving many specifics us laymen are left to take those people at their word, or not. I know you're making a broad generalization, but what are the patterns you're seeing that make you believe construction here is generally done on the cheap? What are you seeing in, for instance, a building like Red that screams to you "low quality," that I am missing when I look at it and feel that it looks pretty nice and probably on the whole reasonably well-constructed?