Posted Aug 26, 2013, 1:59 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Austin,TX<-->Dripping Springs,TX<-->Birmingham, AL<-->Warm Springs,GA
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I'm not really a fan of round towers unless they're being designed that way out of necessity such as along a creek or curved roadway or to avoid a capitol view corridor. Otherwise just having a round tower for the sake of having one seems like a waste of land. I guess that might seem nit picky, but a round tower obviously couldn't meet a street along a square block. So it would have poor street interaction. It would pretty much mean it would have to have a plaza. And in the new urbanism design standard, plazas equal bad. Of course I guess a building could have a podium that meets the street with a curved tower above it. That way the retail area would still meet the street leaving the tower free to be designed with whatever shape they wanted.
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