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Originally Posted by DowntownCharlieBrown
The Grand rendering is "cartoonish" (don't confuse that by thinking I think the rendering looks silly like a cartoon") The more cartoonish (there has to be a better word) a rendering is, the less realistic looking are the colors, lighting, reflections, shadowing, etc. It's also not clear what materials are used and the less likely it will look like the final product. Therefore, the less likely one is able to say they like or don't like a building and will hold off judgment until they get a clearer rendering.
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The blue material on the taller tower is glass (this has been confirmed in several articles now). In the render, it's reflecting the color of the sky, so aside from it being a tad bit too bright, the rendering is pretty close to being photo-realistic.
The silvery material on the shorter tower will likely be brushed aluminum, a Gehry trademark. Though with the cost of facade grade aluminum rising faster than most materials, we may see some value engineering here.
As for the podium materials, I can make out brown and grey-colored stone surfaces (the latter of which he used on the backside of Disney Hall) on the retail spaces fronting the street and at the base of the hotel tower, clear plate glass (fronting the corner for example) and brushed aluminum or perhaps fabric curved overhangs as accents. The rest is trees and concrete.
What we don't know is what materials they will use for the "inside" of the taller tower, or the two sides that face the center of the block. That area has undergone a few revisions and isn't clearly shown from this angle. But Gehry tends to work with only a few materials over the past decade (aluminum, glass, stone, metal accents and concrete), so it shouldn't be a huge mystery.
Aside from that, this is a pretty representative rendering of what we should get. And a skilled photographer could in fact render this image as it exists now.
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I agree with you.
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