1072 West Peachtree | 61 FLR | 733 feet

[ArchKid]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOODWcsjk1x/?img_index=1

The lower parking garage section and the office floors are unspeakably ugly, leaving one at a loss for words and creating an overwhelmingly oppressive feeling！！！

[shivtim]

Thanks for posting those pics! This is having an amazing impact on the skyline and really adding height from all angles. Noticed it from Buckhead and from West End recently. The side that people actually experiencing the city (walking/biking/etc) will see on West Peachtree street is great, with glass balconies coming all the way to ground level. It's also adding some nice texture to the area - the darker glass really stands out as many of the skyscrapers in the cluster between 12th and 15th street have either a primarily white (Icon, Novel, Northside) or stone/beige (One Atlantic, GLG Four Seasons, Regions Plaza) color.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by ArchKid

The lower parking garage section and the office floors are unspeakably ugly, leaving one at a loss for words and creating an overwhelmingly oppressive feeling！！！

It really is an eyesore. The West Peachtree side is okay. The rest... needs to be hidden by something else ASAP.

[robertjhajek]

zero lot line. something will go there soon. for the time being...put up a mural!

[bryantm3]

My wish would be for them to carefully deconstruct the Turner building, and other buildings on the site (not "demolish" them) and reuse the parts to create a façade for a new 10 story (deck height) L-shaped residential building that would go up to the zero lot line of that awful deck. The building would be narrow on the south wing, and wide on the west wing.

A project like that would hide the deck and pave the way for a future 11th Street extension to Spring.

I am convinced we need to find a way to crowdsource and design buildings collectively... we have too many good ideas and good talent on forums like this that aren't being utilized.

These developers obviously need help, they can't seem to build much of anything that looks decent these days. Re-utilizing parts of existing buildings, instead of wrecking them, would be a good place to start...

[ArchKid]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

My wish would be for them to carefully deconstruct the Turner building, and other buildings on the site (not "demolish" them) and reuse the parts to create a façade for a new 10 story (deck height) L-shaped residential building that would go up to the zero lot line of that awful deck. The building would be narrow on the south wing, and wide on the west wing.

A project like that would hide the deck and pave the way for a future 11th Street extension to Spring.

I am convinced we need to find a way to crowdsource and design buildings collectively... we have too many good ideas and good talent on forums like this that aren't being utilized. These developers obviously need help, they can't seem to build much of anything that looks decent these days.

It is advisable that the surrounding new developments conceal the office portion of the building as well. The current façade design appears monotonous and rigid, evoking an awkward resemblance to a massive block of hole-ridden cheese. Ideally, only the upper glass residential tower should remain visible on the skyline.

[AtlantaProf]

Originally Posted by ArchKid

It is advisable that the surrounding new developments conceal the office portion of the building as well. The current façade design appears monotonous and rigid, evoking an awkward resemblance to a massive block of hole-ridden cheese. Ideally, only the upper glass residential tower should remain visible on the skyline.

Do you like any architecture in Atlanta? It’s a serious question, not a flippant one. I’m curious as to whether any part of the city’s built environment holds any positive characteristics in your opinion.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by ArchKid

It is advisable that the surrounding new developments conceal the office portion of the building as well. The current façade design appears monotonous and rigid, evoking an awkward resemblance to a massive block of hole-ridden cheese. Ideally, only the upper glass residential tower should remain visible on the skyline.

It's not going to win any awards or anything... but I don't see why it should be blocked off. The windows are there, they need the view... If somebody can cover up the deck I would count that as a win.

[Nanosolar]

Originally Posted by smArTaLlone

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOODWcsjk1x/?img_index=1

What the fuck.

[ArchKid]

Originally Posted by AtlantaProf

Do you like any architecture in Atlanta? It’s a serious question, not a flippant one. I’m curious as to whether any part of the city’s built environment holds any positive characteristics in your opinion.

I like the well-designed, beautiful buildings in Atlanta, but I don’t like its ugly and mediocre ones. Unfortunately, there are too many shoddy, second-rate buildings among Atlanta’s new developments. That’s why Atlanta needs criticism—only then might it wake up and make progress. Otherwise, over time, I worry that the city’s architectural character will keep declining and eventually resemble the dull and decaying look of some South African cities.

[ArchKid]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

It's not going to win any awards or anything... but I don't see why it should be blocked off. The windows are there, they need the view... If somebody can cover up the deck I would count that as a win.

The office floors above the parking podium are designed with setbacks, leaving spacing and extra room. So, by simply increasing the height of the surrounding new buildings, the office floors can be hidden from the skyline without affecting their access to light or views. This way, when viewing the building from afar, one would finally no longer have to see the monotonous façade of the office portion.

[anxietyrocks]

Originally Posted by AtlantaProf

Do you like any architecture in Atlanta? It’s a serious question, not a flippant one. I’m curious as to whether any part of the city’s built environment holds any positive characteristics in your opinion.

There's definitely good architecture being built in Atlanta, it's just not happening in Midtown. Go a mile east to O4W on the Beltline to see some coastal-tier new architecture. The Overline is one of the city's best buildings in years.

The glass portion of this tower is...fine. But yea I gotta agree the 10 story parking deck part is laughably bad.

[Pemgin]

Quite possibly the worst building to go up in Atlanta this century. And perhaps the most "Atlanta" building of the century, as well.

Large, imposing blank walls: check
Massive dedication to parking: check
Banal architecture: check

[jayden]

Y'all are so dramatic and ungrateful.

[shivtim]

^I don't love the podium but it's a little wild how people act like this building is the work of the antichrist

[Tuckerman]

Originally Posted by shivtim

^I don't love the podium but it's a little wild how people act like this building is the work of the antichrist

Good point.
I would agree that in its present state it is a rather strange looking building. On the other hand it is both unique and eye-catching when viewed from a distance under construction. I always find it curious to consider a building just by itself, as if it was somewhere on a plain surface in the countryside. In a short time this building will simply melt into midtown skyline, In all probability another building will mostly block the view of the parking podium. Personally I don’t find this thin building nearly as strange and unsightly as the pencil thin buildings that have gone up in Manhattan.

[testarossa50]

Originally Posted by Tuckerman

Good point.
I would agree that in its present state it is a rather strange looking building. On the other hand it is both unique and eye-catching when viewed from a distance under construction. I always find it curious to consider a building just by itself, as if it was somewhere on a plain surface in the countryside. In a short time this building will simply melt into midtown skyline, In all probability another building will mostly block the view of the parking podium. Personally I don’t find this thin building nearly as strange and unsightly as the pencil thin buildings that have gone up in Manhattan.

Yeah, agreed. And the lots at the bottom of the building are some of the most prime development parcels left in Midtown, so someday this building will basically just appear to be a thin glass tower rising out of the skyline. Not bad.

[newuserbuckhead]

Aren't ya'll the same people who complained about the Hilton Garden Inn on 10th street, but now you can't see the building code/fire code walls along the lot line.

The only pictures we're seeing are from the side against the lot lines rather than the sides up against the street. Blame fire and building codes but then don't complain when something bad happens.

[ArchKid]

What baffles me is that when a high-rise is so disastrously designed, the reaction is not to treat it as a cautionary tale but to normalize such mediocrity—as if this kind of botched outcome were entirely acceptable, even praiseworthy. People comfort themselves with the flimsy excuse that future neighboring buildings can simply hide the eyesore and make it all go away. Has Atlanta really taken to practicing a sort of 'urban patchwork cover-up art'? Among the world’s major cities, this is the first time I’ve seen such a bizarre and self-defeating approach.

[shivtim]