[Saanich] Tuscany Village mixed-use | Built - completed in 2007
#21
Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:23 PM
#22
Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:28 PM
#23
Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:31 PM
Thankfully, the Italian custom of going into the local corner deli and getting them to make you a sandwich with whatever is on hand is still popular.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#24
Posted 05 February 2007 - 02:09 PM
British culture is the largest ethnic segment of our heritage in this city.
It's the largest ethnic segment in every Canadian city outside Quebec. So how come Victoria is the only city obliged to enforce tweed and Tudor stereotypes?
Even if Victoria were somehow exceptionally British, what's the point of introducing hackneyed representations of British architectural history? Are they still building knock-offs of ancient buildings in Europe? Wouldn't it make more sense to reflect the real Britain? The one that exists now? The British people who live in Victoria today didn't come to town in a time machine from the year 1500.
Anyone ever been to Ontario? Whenever I'm in Ottawa I find myself puzzling over why the cities in that part of the country don't market themselves as a bit of old England. They have much more of an old world vibe than Victoria does.
#25
Posted 05 February 2007 - 02:21 PM
#26
Posted 05 February 2007 - 09:41 PM
#27
Posted 05 February 2007 - 09:55 PM
Carry on.
#28
Posted 05 February 2007 - 10:09 PM
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Posted 05 February 2007 - 10:10 PM
#30
Posted 05 February 2007 - 10:37 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#31
Posted 06 February 2007 - 07:35 AM
#32
Posted 06 February 2007 - 10:20 AM
Must I show you this French chateau, this little Chateau de Blois, on this street corner, here in New York, and still you do not laugh! ...Have you no sense of humor, no sense of pathos? Must I tell you that while the man may live in the house physically (for a man may live in any kind of house physically), that he cannot possibly live in it morally, mentally or spiritually, a characteristically New York absurdity; that he is no part of the house, and his house is no part of him?
What happened there was on a totally different scale, but you have to ask yourself why people build themselves medieval-style "castles" in the middle of the wilderness, and why there isn't more honesty about what and who you are and where you live. The other thing that bugs me, I guess, is just how unfriendly and dark and downright obstructionist some of these houses are. It's as though they deliberately ignore the mod-cons (and modern thinking) coming online by the late 19th/ early 20th c. Home Economics as well as Time-and-Motion Studies became thriving branches of study & industry then, and a number of women had a huge influence on making the modern home more efficient and less labour-intensive, which often resulted in houses that looked brighter, lighter, and had better flow. (Eg., Lillian Gilbreth, married to Frank -- both of them efficiency experts, made famous in the book, Cheaper by the Dozen. Lillian had a PhD in engineering and worked in that profession.) That sort of thing is totally absent in the c.1900 piles in Victoria.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, for me, Victoria's tudorbethan style has less to do with "heritage" than with social history. It's like the difference between believing that Scotsmen really had clan tartans back in the middle ages, or knowing that they were [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/week3/week3.htm:188ae]invented[/url:188ae] early during Industrialization by (horrors!) an ...[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rawlinson:188ae]Englishman[/url:188ae].
#33
Posted 06 February 2007 - 04:49 PM
Much of Antique Row on Fort St. was a mishmash of Italianate, Art Deco etc. that was "Tudorfied" decades ago.
Really? That makes me weep, actually..I bet it was so much cooler decades ago. Anyone got pics so I can cry over them?
#34
Posted 06 February 2007 - 11:17 PM
Make your next photo grid project the Tuscanny Village - let's get pics of the buses trying to get to stops, and the shoppers/residents, trying to do 'lefts' to get towards Uvic.
#35
Posted 07 February 2007 - 07:42 AM
#36
Posted 17 July 2007 - 11:24 PM
To those that would say this looks like Disneyland, here's an [url=http://davelandweb.com/construction/images/5_55_Const_2.jpg:f3da7]actual 1955 construction pic of Disneyland[/url:f3da7].
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 17 July 2007 - 11:43 PM
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Posted 18 July 2007 - 05:41 AM
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Posted 18 July 2007 - 06:25 AM
#40
Posted 18 July 2007 - 07:26 AM
Great vintage [url=http://davelandblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Main%20Street:3a623]Disneyland Main Street pics here[/url:3a623].
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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