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Hey Banksy: Here are five Canadian buildings that aren’t as ‘vanilla’ as One World Trade Center
October 31, 2013
Artist Banksy picked a fight with the wrong country!
This from the Globe and Mail: “this week the anonymous-but-famous British artist was poking a stick at both New York and … Canadians. In an opinion piece he published on his website the graffiti artist complained that the new skyscraper at One World Trade Center “declares the glory days of New York are gone.” The building he said, is mediocre, “shy,” unworthy of New York’s bold spirit.”
Even worse? “It’s vanilla. It looks like something they would build in Canada.”
Granted, we have more than our share of bland glass towers, but as the article in the Globe points out, we are building a few towers that are anything but bland!
Click here for the article