B17 - Wednesday, June 13, 1984 - North Shore News

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9 e eter ings — 2 piilosopy some e€O le don't wait for a loan of architecture, the value of y e historical buildings, the

success of Lonsdale Quay

and the importance of

team-work.

Some of what he = said

during a recent interview:

On architecture:

**} don’t know why it has all worked out the way it has. A lot of it has to do with a kind of philosophy that I have more latterly come to appreciate, a win-win attitude. Architec- ture is a performing art, and those are key words, and successful architecture grows out of a combination of a very strong vision on the part of the architect in equal parts to a dynamic negotiating process.

‘“‘An example of win-win is that for a project to be successful, it has to have strong and distinctive ar- chitecture and the community, the people using it, have to feel good about it.

“‘Ie’s just in the = last half-dozen years that this has become popular, that is that this process involves the chent, the architect or design team and the third partici- pant is the neighborhood That’s the key.

“If the building wins and the people lose, that’s just arc hitectual ego- tripping 7"

On historical buildings.

“What | said in that con text (in an earlier iterview) ithat the city isin danger of losing ats soul and To thik that cerlain, innovative steps will have to be taken te

allow owners and developers to retain the old) burbdings There has to be some com

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