Whatever Jerry Blumenthal. I live on Union Street and I think this development is awesome. So great for the area. This area has such potential with the Hydrostone Market... but the market alone is far too small. We need more street level retail here. So this is fantastic. I'm still upset about the atrocity that was built across the street from here a few years ago. Where was the outrage for that piece of mediocre crap? Just goes to prove my point once again... Haligonians don't give a flying f*** about quality... they only get worked up when something is "tall". It could be designed by a world-renowned architect and made of the most beautiful and expensive materials available. Doesn't matter. If it's more than 6 stories... watch out!! Oh well.
Speaking of materials... how great is it that they are re-using the stone from the church!!! I watched for months as workers stripped the church bare and piled the stones on shrink-wrapped palettes. I was wonder what they planned to do with those palettes of stone. That's great. The cladding looks great overall. Lots of glass. And it's not all precast. It's precast mixed with really dark brick (classy) and stone. Nice.
The only thing I don't like... and that's putting it mildly... is that stupid, tacky arched cornice on the front elevation. WHY!?!?!?! Why the need to take what looks like an otherwise nice modern building and throw in some tacky neo-classical crap? ARGH!
But other than that... I think it's awesome. About the right height. Fantastic mix of commercial and residential. Perhaps even nicer than the Kaye St building. Altho' it's not really a fair comparison since this project had a lot more room to work with.
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Originally Posted by phrenic
..and it begins.
allnovascotia.com has Jerry Blumenthal saying he can't support this;
- it's out of scale with the area
- there could be wind tunnel problems
- "I know a lot of people will be upset with the height"
- "If they had come up with an eight story building, I wouldn't have any problems"
- "I know a lot of people on Russel and Kaye streets will be off the wall"
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