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Speaking about higher taxes ... interesting how we suddenly like wood so much that we are willing to pay extra to put three columns in where one will do, on top of a concrete one to boot, with special steel connectors ...... but hey, how else will we know it was built between 1990 and 2010, or thereabouts ..... fads are at least good for identifying the time of construction if not for actual structural purposes .. and, of course, for keeping the construction cost high

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I like the steel guardrail ... must have been afraid that people would get wood splinters if they used wood instead ....

Not a bit of "blue wood" in sight.

Anyway, it is a nice space. Hopefully they have "spruced" up the arenas a bit too or will do so shortly. I like taxes ....... I get to spend my dollars in PG instead of in Cancun ...... you see, taxes are good for something after all.

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They should have used some of those wooden beams and money to repair the Cameron St. Bridge, however I guess you wouldnt get a photo op out of it. Hopefully this structure will serve some useful purpose.

As one who uses the Kin Centres quite a bit as a player and a coach, I like the new connector. I like the fact that it was something badly wanted by the hockey players in this city.

It's funny how people whine about the city not building something for kids and yet when they do, people have to whine and bitch and nitpick the design to death.

The city not building something for kids?????? I have never heard that before .....

I like good design. I like functional design. Design is, in part, a personal matter. Everyone has a right to their views, and it is not nit picking whatsoever.

I agree that the link will provide some functionality which was not there before. I agree that the appearance looks "good". What I was picking on was a current fad in architectural design which adds only cost. The interior space could have been built with a single wood laminated or composite post running the entire height of the building, not unlike the administrative building at the UNBC and still looked "good". My estimate is that

http://www.unbc.ca/assets/about/campus/building_tours/admin.jpg

I would estimate that about $20,000 to $30,000 could have been saved with a "simpler" structural wood design. In addition, architects should have learned by now that one does not run wood outriggers to the exterior of a building where they are subject to direct rain and sun. That will become an unecessary maintenance item in about 5 years.

As far as something badly wanted by the hockey players in this city, there is a performing arts centre badly wanted by those who enjoy that type of recreation. So hockey won out one more time and they didn't even get a new ice surface out of it.

I like the big glass wall. It should help to reduce the outside cold temperatures that we have in Prince George.

Cold? Outside? in PG? ... winters here have been warm for the past 8 years. The ice arenas might be colder than the outside these days.

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Thanks Owl. I was wondering why we have been building California designs in Prince George. I guess many of us have to live in with some hope or else we wouldn't be here.
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I moved here from a "normal" Canadian city, so I have typically experienced less snow here and the temperatures have always been quite bearable except of a week or two compared to damp and windy eastern winters. It is all relative. ;-)

Now, for those California designs, I very much agree. All of Canada suffers form that. It used to be the major reason for ice dams on roofs.

Speaking of places that we have lived my background is somewhat different. I moved to BC from a farm in Northern SK. I remember going to school at around -40 F. I have enjoyed BC very much and have been fortunate to have worked here from Cranbrook to Atlin and Fort Nelson to Ladysmith. At Dease Lake I worked outside at temperatures at -45 C.
Its not that I have an animosity against the cold I just can't tolerate ignorance in people that should know better.
I would also like to add that actualy winter temperatures have become warmer over the last 40 years. The last severe temperature I can recall was about -50 C in the early 70's. It depends on who's telling the story on our winters.
I probably should of said West Cost design as even a California design dosent make much sence in California when you have so sit on your air conditioner all day long during the summer months.
Hope I havent bored you with all this knowlegable info if you should happen to read it. :(

Pal: >They should have used some of those wooden beams and money to repair the Cameron St. Bridge, however I guess you wouldnt get a photo op out of it.<

Too bad the bridge closure doesn't raise an international stink like the RV boondockers' affair.

Obviously, we need foreign help to get this bridge repair idea to receive some attention from Kinsley.

Our lowly voices as ordinary local citizens are not worth very much, so it seems.

Well from what I know about the cameron street bridge the majority of the cost is not in materials, it is in the staging and construction of a temporary bridge underneath to support it when the rotten members are replaced.

Owl: "As far as something badly wanted by the hockey players in this city, there is a performing arts centre badly wanted by those who enjoy that type of recreation."

What's wrong with the PG Playhouse? Is there enough demand for a facility like that or would it need "cash-injections" from the City every year to keep it running?

The design of the Connector is a great concept, showcasing WOOD, it may have cost a little more than some steel, but when all our visitors from foreign countries arrive around 2010, they will be amazed. If it was made out of all steel and concrete, people would complain that they didn't use wood, bla bla bla.