Posted May 5, 2013, 5:04 PM
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Stucco for the Ages?
Stucco is a great material in some applications on buildings of 5 stories or less. Apartments and homes can look great clad with stucco. A stucco church tower can also look stunning, however, church towers do not have windows with mullions and glass. Any building over about 5 stories, with windows, that uses stucco looks cheap to me.
The reason to use stucco on any contemporary style highrise is to reduce the cost of building. Any highrise building clad in stucco looks like it is meant to be a temporary building...not a building for the ages.
Can anyone imagine a new highrise in Manhattan clad in stucco?
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