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[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by bhawk66

Luckily in twenty years the blue box phenom will be hopefully behind us. Thank god.

Where do we go from "blue boxes"? Glass doesn't appear to be going anywhere as far as a building standard for taller buildings. So we're either just talking a different color glass, or something not shaped like a box. With my great appreciation for the grid system, I'd prefer a box with some nice details, a la OCS, over some oddly shaped neo futuristic building.

[rgarri4]

As long as the sky is blue and glass is reflective "Blue boxes" are pretty much here to stay.

[Goose Island Guru]

Glass is cheap, it looks good, and it gives occupants great views, so it gets used. This hasn't always been the case, so until there's a material that's cheaper to use than glass, glass will continue to be used. With the energy code requiring a percentage of building area to be opaque you have to get creative, but you still maximize vision glass.

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by Goose Island Guru

Glass is cheap, it looks good, and it gives occupants great views, so it gets used. This hasn't always been the case, so until there's a material that's cheaper to use than glass, glass will continue to be used. With the energy code requiring a percentage of building area to be opaque you have to get creative, but you still maximize vision glass.

OCS looks to be curtain wall in the renderings. I'd assume JDL (a developer that has proved to us they do not skimp) should purchase a quality product. I'm sure this will end up being an absolute stunner. Also there is nothing similar in that area of the city. It will stand out, in the best way possible.

Fun fact while on the topic of cladding. I recently found out that the architects almost chose white Italian marble for Sears Tower until Alcoa lowered their aluminum prices. Imagine Sears clad like Water Tower Place. Wild to think about...

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by PittsburghPA

Fun fact while on the topic of cladding. I recently found out that the architects almost chose white Italian marble for Sears Tower until Alcoa lowered their aluminum prices. Imagine Sears clad like Water Tower Place. Wild to think about...

That's crazy. Thanks for sharing.

[cozy]

^^ We need a rendering of that

[PittsburghPA]

Originally Posted by cozy

^^ We need a rendering of that

Agreed! Looking at you @rgarri4!

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by cozy

^^ We need a rendering of that

Originally Posted by PittsburghPA

Agreed! Looking at you @rgarri4!

I didn't make a render but maybe this 2 minute photoshop I did will do.

[Busy Bee]

I'm rooting for an era of bronze/amber glass like those 1970's glasses your grandma served you kool-aid in. I'm serious actually.

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

I'm rooting for an era of bronze/amber glass like those 1970's glasses your grandma served you kool-aid in. I'm serious actually.

I'm still waiting on the world's first tudor style supertall.

[Busy Bee]

^How was that not done in the PoMo era? Perhaps with an enormous rooster weathervane on top. I'm sure it was on their to-do list.

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

^How was that not done in the PoMo era? Perhaps with an enormous rooster weathervane on top. I'm sure it was on their to-do list.

Ha, with half timbers working their way up over 1000 feet. And a crossbow guard tower every 50 feet or so.

In my mind it would be more brick or stone and resemble closer to tudor castle/tower structures.

[nocturne]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

I'm rooting for an era of bronze/amber glass like those 1970's glasses your grandma served you kool-aid in. I'm serious actually.

Agreed, there's something cool about amber glass but I don't realistically see it coming back anytime soon. You never know, though.

[r18tdi]

Terra. Cotta. Everything.

[LouisVanDerWright]

Originally Posted by HomrQT

Ha, with half timbers working their way up over 1000 feet. And a crossbow guard tower every 50 feet or so.

In my mind it would be more brick or stone and resemble closer to tudor castle/tower structures.

Haha this actually sounds great, you could actually make a supertall design in this style without it being too cartoonishly removed from actual designs of that era...

[The North One]

Originally Posted by r18tdi

Terra. Cotta. Everything.

Yaaaasssss

this is probably the favorite material on skyscrapers and it works so well on modern designs still.

[HomrQT]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Haha this actually sounds great, you could actually make a supertall design in this style without it being too cartoonishly removed from actual designs of that era...

London tudor supertall confirmed!

[10023]

Tudor highrise architecture makes no sense. Sullivan would turn in his grave.

So-called “Tudor Revival” residential architecture that doesn’t use correct materials and gets many of the architectural elements wrong is bad enough.

Neo-Gothic at least made some semblance of sense because Gothic buildings soared. The Cathedrals were the skyscrapers of their day. Even then having a bunch of non-load bearing flying buttresses is pretty silly.

[joeg1985]

Originally Posted by HomrQT

I'm still waiting on the world's first tudor style supertall.

This literally made me laugh so hard, my belly hurts. Thank you for that. Conjures quite the visual.

[pilsenarch]

^One of the world's first skyscrapers, the Masonic Temple, at the northeast corner of State and Randolph, could arguably be called 'tudor'... look it up and check out the detail below the hipped roofs...