posted 15 August 2001 01:18 PM
The pepper-pots at my office were gabbing enthusiastically this morning about the new Old Navy store in the Bayshore Mall. You'd think people would have better topics to dish about.
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'lance
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posted 15 August 2001 02:14 PM
Sounds like you work with some dull people.
Are we talking Bayshore in Ottawa? Why hasn't that offence against architecture been knocked down long since?
O, foolish question.
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Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 15 August 2001 02:21 PM
It's not like the area surrounding the mall is exactly a repository of excellent architecture.
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posted 15 August 2001 02:39 PM
You should see the boring design of the Old Navy at the Square One mall in Mississauga.
I dunno, between Club Monaco, the GAP, Old Navy.....I think I've come to loathe bleached hardwood floors and impecably neat and tidy minimalist surroundings.
posted 15 August 2001 02:49 PM
One of my gf's assignments in her interior design class was to design a clothing boutique. She didn't get a good mark because she didn't design it in this minimalist style. She complained to her teacher, "but I don't LIKE stores like that!"
The teacher didn't care. Minimalism is what she required. She was there to teach them how to get a job (in Toronto presumedly), not how to be creative.
[ August 15, 2001: Message edited by: Kneel before MediaBoy ]
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posted 19 August 2001 01:15 PM
quote:It's not like the area surrounding the mall is exactly a repository of excellent architecture.
A few years back some CBC public-affairs show ran a half-affectionate but half-sarcastic piece on Nepean. Highlight was a children's choir singing a song with the chorus "Nepean, Nepean What a wonderful place to be in Your choice of fast-food restaurants..." (and some other rhyming line about some other typical suburban feature)
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Bayshore isn't technically in Nepean, but it's all the same. North American suburban sprawl of the "Edge City" flavour is profoundly dispiriting.
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posted 19 August 2001 02:00 PM
Re "Nepean, Nepean ..." -- "be in" was not the first rhyme that occurred to me.
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posted 19 August 2001 09:24 PM
quote: I dunno, between Club Monaco, the GAP, Old Navy.....I think I've come to loathe bleached hardwood floors and impecably neat and tidy minimalist surroundings.
Aren't they all owned by the same company?
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posted 20 August 2001 12:16 AM
watch it be Philip Morris
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Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 20 August 2001 10:51 AM
The Gap and Old Navy are the same. Club Monaco is not.
I gotta defend the city of my birth. There are (were?) LOTS of really nice spots in Nepean. There are lots of neighbourhoods in Nepean that are shining examples of how suburban development SHOULD be done. Merivale Gardens, Pineglen, Grenville Glen, and Heart's Desire are all really nice little neighbourhoods, and vastly superior to the suburban hells they keep building in Barrhaven, Kanata and Gloucester, with all their identihouses..
Bayshore, however, is not one of the nice neighbourhoods.
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