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Originally Posted by AusTxDevelopment
Sorry - I didn't mean to offend. Maybe it's just an ugly rendering.  From the rendering it looks like the side of the building is either a metal or stone skin, or possibly concrete. That is not a smart design because if you are going to go that tall - especially with a residential tower - views are EVERYTHING! However, Syndic thinks that might be grey glass windows, which means the tower will look significantly different (and better) in real life. Finished buildings always look different than their renderings, so I'm optomistic.
Btw, there's a good article on super-tall residential towers in today's Wall Street Journal online, and it includes a slide show.
WSJ.com
Living The High Life
Developers are erecting super-skyscrapers for the very wealthy, selling apartments with helicopter views for massive price tags. Why everyone's looking up; plus, the realities of life on the 90th floor. |
The windows are set in a foot or two kind of like Perry-Castañeda.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...800px-PCL3.JPG
But unlike the Perry-Castañeda the Planaterium town isn't using the grid for its windown, but more of a whopperjawed random pattern that is more popular today. So they won't line up from one floor to the next, but will be a bit random on each floor.
It would be crazy to not have windown looking south or north. That would give them no views of UT to the north or the Capitol Building and Downtown Austin to the south. lol.
