These buildings manage to look cheap even from a distance, and that is something of an accomplishment. They're constructed of brick cleverly designed to read as pre-cast concrete, and have mean little windows. When we had protests about unchecked development, we would point to those buildings as something we didn't need any more of. St. James Town was when it first opened. A Moriyama building, but named by Jane Jacobs as topping her 10-worst list.
Trouble is, there's no one to answer the invitation.
Albert Campbell Square ends up feeling like a rather generous gesture on the part of the surrounding corporate entities, and not at all like the city's beating heart. At the time, it made more sense than it does now. One of our intentions was to build a heart for the city, but that didn't happen. Not significant enough to make the list, but it must ruin the day of anyone who lives in the neighbourhood. You'd swear it was the work of three different sleep-deprived architectural firms who never saw each other's drawings.