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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple
I mean to be fair, fancy cornices wouldn't make sense on this building. That's not the architectural style of this one. It's intended to be art deco industrial, which wouldn't feature cornices like that.
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True enough, but even art deco has.. well.. art deco elements. Some sort of embossing on the top corner one of some sort would have been nice vs just straight across stone with nothing whatsoever.
There is a reason the word "art" is in art deco. The pigott building interior is art deco. The sun life building interior is art deco. Hell even the old kresgys/bingo hall was art deco.
A similar styled art deco industrial building - note the stamped embossing at the top. Hell I would have even settled for peaked triangular corners
also I say THIS to your comments on no cornices on art deco buildings - london has something else to say, knave! Lol..
Our building is like art deco industrial with literally nothing that would make it art deco embellishment wise lol..
..except maybe the windows lol..
I honestly just feel they tried the least design wise with this one. Mind you, the render may just be "simplified" but they could have done something at least a LITTLE out of the norm with the corner toppers. Literally all our old industrial buildings have SOME sort of embellishment on the top, pretty much all of them. Imo the ONLY thing that makes this building interesting to look at, is the windows.
5 things will always make me happy on an exterior:
a) Tasteful awnings - like the one on the king william "french" restaurant -
b) Arches - any kind of arches or unusual angles to make it something other than a box with windows punched in
c) Fancy brickwork of any kind - this one has some, I'll grant it that
d) Cornices or some fancy topper that gives you something to actually observe and marvel at
e) Sash windows or windows like the ones on this one - imo this one has 2 out of 5, as the "awnings" are just straight jut-outs and thus kinda meh looking to me.
I'm always much much more critical of core urban due to their current track record of elegance. I still think core urban needs to be a bit more adventurous and do some embossing stamping, both on their mullion areas and in this case at the top of the corner jutout. I can only of course speak for me but many people like to look at what a building has to offer design wise vs just its overall form, or the fact that it's "big". Like their building next door to it is imo perfect. It has such a harmonious design (lack of mullion stamping aside which imo would have made it flawless hehe)
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