A famous acrhitectural British Columbia window event was the complete 
failure of the sealed unit windows on the then modern1957 BC Electric office 
building in downtown Vancouver, an artistically styled, tiled and shaped 21 
story tower built to loom over the then three story city with corporate 
pride during the era of major expansion of the electric company system.   In 
that era of optimism, they actually hired both an architect and an artist to 
work together to design the place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Hydro

In 1962, when I arrived in Vancouver as a student, all the architects and 
arch. students I met had thick plate glass coffee tables at home and in 
their offices, all the same size, all from the five year old BC Electric 
Building.   The tables were displayed with ironic architectural low budget 
pride, identifying the owners as members of the little society of those who 
were "connected" and those who "knew", much like patches worn on Hell's 
Angels Jackets.

As in many beautiful buildings, some detail just didn't work.


cp in bc 

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