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Old Posted Nov 10, 2019, 3:12 AM
Hindentanic Hindentanic is offline
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A closer look at the exterior elevation notes on the drawings tells us that the building will be largely clad in EFIS. The new lines we are seeing in the new elevations that resemble mullions in a glass curtain wall are likely instead dividing grooves or patterning of the exterior cladding panels, which will most probably look like flat stucco and be given some neutral color as seen in previous renderings. The same window sills and window framing can still be seen in the new drawing for the actual window "cutouts" in the wall.

Not that they would do this here, but the idea of pattern lines in a stucco-like wall makes me think of the former Chungwai Bank building in Shanghai, parts of the façade of which once had vividly zig-zagging Art Deco lines contrasting against the red brick. The modern remodel of the façade removed the patterned lines and instead tiled the plainer concrete portions into something less interesting. Oh well. This type of jazzy patterning would likely never fly with any review boards in San Antonio, which will typically lean for the safe and conventional, but it would be a noteworthy departure from the usual.

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