View Single Post
  #430  
Old Posted Sep 20, 2018, 5:54 PM
viewguysf's Avatar
viewguysf viewguysf is offline
Surrounded by Nature
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Walnut Creek, California
Posts: 2,028
Quote:
Originally Posted by homebucket View Post
+1

While I don't think it has turned out as nicely as I initially imagined, it's still way more interesting than other recent projects (Jasper, 33 Tehama, 340 Fremont, 222 Second).
I was peppered for my criticism of 222 Second when it under construction and still dislike it today (except for the lobby), Jasper was bemoaned by almost everyone (I despise the west facade in particular), 340 Fremont was ve’d into mediocrity, and so on. We could also go back to earlier generations of awful buildings in our beautiful city setting. By comparison, Park Tower isn’t nearly as bad, it’s just somewhat disappointing to me. I long to have more dynamic architecture like some other world cities, but alas, that’s usually not the case here.