I'm with pg that reflective blue-gray glass etc will get old quick if applied too many times in a small area. and overall I'm not sold on that building either - that screen/scrim is not enough to make it interesting to me, but we'll have to see in real life.
a few gray shots from over the weekend...
thanks to WC for pointing out the progress on the neurosciences building. I don't usually post with updates on that one since the webcam does a good job of that already, but here is a shot of the exterior along the west façade which the camera doesn't show:
and from a little farther away, on Owens:
both cranes at Radiance IIa were busy on Saturday:
... and a forest of concrete trunks and rebar foliage is growing from the south side of the site. this is looking at the southwest corner from Third (and maybe I should point out that you can see the brick firehouse in the distance on the left - the new police building will be across the street to the north of the Radiance II site, in case that wasn't clear from the article):
back over at the northwest corner of MB, they have done some grading and compacting, so maybe they are ready to start making some of the surface changes soon. there was this path newly poured, but I don't know if that's just a temporary one or will be part of the final product. this is looking southeast, and I think the future roundabout must be about where the pile of gravel is behind the backhoe:
this is looking back west-southwest at what used to be the corner of Channel and Sixth. you can see that what looks like the masts of streetlights have been delivered and are lying on the ground on the right side - another sign that we might finally start to see the first signs of what the area will look like, soon. the previous pic was taken thru the fence beyond those posts. the area in the foreground of this shot is probably about where the westernmost parking spaces for the houseboat folks will be.