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Design search raises exciting possibilities

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / February 10

I admit I arched an eyebrow upon first hearing about the Absolute skyscraper competition currently under way in Mississauga. If that makes me a typical big-city skeptic about the possibility of any good coming out of suburbia, I'm guilty as charged. But you have to admit the prospect does sound improbable: a serious search for good high-rise architecture in a part of the world where real estate developers rule in splendour like sultans, untroubled by questions of aesthetics or by their political creatures at city hall, and where the line that always counts most is not the skyline, but the bottom line.

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