922 Main St E | ? | 8 fl | Proposal

[LikeHamilton]

922 Main Street East @ Balsam (Just west of Gage)

8 Stories, 56 units (Multiple Dwelling) Ground floor commercial.

Date for the zoning change has not been announced.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/184...streeteast.jpg

[matt602]

Was wondering when someone would put this up. It looks good and it would fit well with the area. Some nice infill.

[TheRitsman]

Just so we don't lose the photo I've uploaded it to Imgur. Also I'd love something like this, with hopefully a slightly nicer design. Maybe a bit taller too would be fine, maybe 12 floors

[catcher_of_cats]

Wow, a thread resurrection after 13 years. I too hope that one day this property will be sold to serious developers since the current ones do nothing but pay their property taxes.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by catcher_of_cats

Wow, a thread resurrection after 13 years. I too hope that one day this property will be sold to serious developers since the current ones do nothing but pay their property taxes.

We have too many of these. But perhaps that's "normal" for a developing city?

Something that's a nicer blend with the church would be optimal IMO. This looks like an office building.

[Hawrylyshyn]

This was posted on UT today --

[Chronamut]

..what happened to the steeple?

Looks like they've made this more generic, not better.. no more arches, less details.. more blegh. I mean some of the details are still nice but there is less than what was originally proposed.

The left building got hit the worst - no cornices, no arches, nothing of any detail. Blegh commie block.

[bigguy1231]

Originally Posted by Chronamut

..what happened to the steeple?

Looks like they've made this more generic, not better.. no more arches, less details.. more blegh. I mean some of the details are still nice but there is less than what was originally proposed.

The left building got hit the worst - no cornices, no arches, nothing of any detail. Blegh commie block.

It is a charity. The building will house handicapped people in need of 24 hour care. They just had a fund raiser for this project last week. I don't think making the building look good is a priority. Functionality is the priority.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by bigguy1231

It is a charity. The building will house handicapped people in need of 24 hour care. They just had a fund raiser for this project last week. I don't think making the building look good is a priority. Functionality is the priority.

[Chronamut]

Originally Posted by bigguy1231

It is a charity. The building will house handicapped people in need of 24 hour care. They just had a fund raiser for this project last week. I don't think making the building look good is a priority. Functionality is the priority.

There's no reason you can't have both. Once again the "this is for the less fortunate so the building has to look less fortunate" argument wins out. We're supposed to be a first world country. What the hell are people gonna think of our architecture 100 years from now.. "oh it looked shitty, but hey, functional, amirite?"

I mean they even made orphanages in the past look pretty. Thank god for the building on the right I guess.

[Hawrylyshyn]

Originally Posted by Chronamut

There's no reason you can't have both. Once again the "this is for the less fortunate so the building has to look less fortunate" argument wins out. We're supposed to be a first world country. What the hell are people gonna think of our architecture 100 years from now.. "oh it looked shitty, but hey, functional, amirite?"

I mean they even made orphanages in the past look pretty. Thank god for the building on the right I guess.

That's not the argument though. The argument is it's a charity so 1) there's significant less capital upfront to build something nice and 2) very limited resources are better spent on actually looking after the people that will live there.

In 100 years people won't think "oh it looked shitty, but hey, functional, amirite?", but rather "oh look, that facility that did incredible work and looked after people who needed help the most".

[Pulkvedis Pods]

https://www.aizkraukle.lv/lv/sociala...w.google.lv%2F

I inserted this link from a rural district (Aizkraukle) homepage, which has information on three of its social care and service centres. I can't speak to the interior of these places, but considering that this district isn't rolling in the dough, I'd say that architectural solution in each case - an early 20th century building rehabbed, a commie-block type building insulated and modernized or what looks like a new build (#3) aren't decrepit eyesores.
I had seen other examples over on skyscrapercity that looked quite appealing considering these are not private projects for post-soviet billionaires.