Pretty much anything built in Charlottetown since the Ellis Brothers Shopping Centre, or the Royalty Mall, is taken right out of Vulgaria, Ontario —- ie. anything west of Kingston or Brockville, and even then there’s room for interpretation.

Developers and fans of tilt-up buildings should be proud of the awful architecture polluting this place. I blame foreign imports for this influence (ie. anyone “from the other side”)…

Blame yourselves for your own building code standards if you don’t like what you have to look at when you walk down the street.

I heard an interesting interview with Moshe Safdie last week on As It Happens about his quitting the McGill Health Centre project — here is a link to the story about in the G&M — public/private partnerships may be a major contributing factor to that consistently uninspired formulaic building style we’ve seen on the Island and every Canadian city for the last couple of decades.

Give it a read:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com…