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Originally Posted by officedweller
October 5 UDP Minutes: - Consideration should be given to reducing the massing and density;
- The two buildings, Crown Life and the proposed should either be more complimentary or contrasting in form and materiality;
- Design development to make the building thinner and more elegant;
- Design development to better activate the base of the building along Georgia;
- The intent of the 6500 sq. ft. floorplate is not met well in the middle of the building;
- Extend the brick along Georgia Street but to maintain the Georgia edge with its landscaped form;
- Special attention should be paid to the design of the plaza to create a base for the new tower and to act as the integrating element for the composition of the two buildings;
- Design development of the materiality and the approach to details to work with the materials of the plaza.
- Design development to improve sustainability.
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I am not a fan of the shipping crates hanging out of a tower design, maybe because the theater box is gone.
But you better have a good reason for telling someone what they cannot build, provided they meet every zoning/viewcone/FSR/safety/etc. standard
materiality is not even a word.
There is some constructive criticism to prevent the street level from being a dead zone.
After that it's different ways of saying "build the building I would have designed, which is super skinny". Not because of FSR limits, not because of shading concerns. Because of a single unexplained opinion.
UDP should learn when not to speak if they don't want to be ignored.
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