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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
It looks far better than I thought it would. In fact, I think it looks better than a lot of what else is going up.
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I can't agree on that one. So far, it's a combination of a few things for me on this one:
1. It's student housing which is 100% fine, but unfortunate it's between our most modern looking buildings (FMC/EVO/CIRA) because it sticks out like a sore thumb
2. The massing makes it very visible coming up 76W. It's literally like a black and white wall on approach.
3. From a purely urbanist nerd perspective, Philly already has too many long rectangular buildings. It would have been sick to get something more slender and stylish like the EVO
but in the end, it really doesn't matter. It adds solid density and with the rooftop details when all is said and done, it will be fine infill