Infrastructure Should Be Beautiful Like This Stormwater Facility In Toronto
In Europe, the design of infrastructure is taken seriously. They hire architects like Bjarke Ingels to design incinerators. This is rarely the case in North America, where most infrastructure is designed by engineers who bid the lowest price in a proposal call. We should do better. As architect Toon Dressen has written for The Globe & Mail: I think of this every time I drive by this wastewater treatment plant in Lake of Bays, Ontario—a supremely ugly building surrounded by a chain-link fence in one of the most beautiful parts of the Province of Ontario, sitting among the trees and rocks of the Canadian Shield....