One Victoria | 63 m | 19 fl | Complete

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My point seems to have been missed if you think I was attempting to assassinate the use of ICF.  It was simply to state the obvious. It is just plain ugly what they have done in Waterloo. Have a look at Mississauga's City Centre or an example of intensification.  oh and if you want to use sayings, "you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear"

You choose to detract from your main point by adding the unnecessary ICF comment. You might as well said "ugly sky crane constructed buildings" because it is equally unrelated to how ugly the buildings look like.

There's a tendency to blame ugliness in materials. The horrible Brutalism school is often blamed on concrete, as if an overbearing monstrosity with no windows would be any better if only it was clad with brick instead. Or ugly facade patterns blamed on stucco. 1 Columbia is an example of an ugly color choice that would have been blamed on stucco had it been done with that material. Or ugly office towers blamed on glass walls. For example, the Christ Cathedral (formerly Crystal Cathedral) is a gorgeous piece of architecture fully covered in glass, but according to some this has to be ugly.