Hope they're also able to match up the colouring of the bricks and mortar -- is the difference just because they're in the middle of the process, some patches cleaned up and others not?
This seems to be a familiar trend with Vrancor's son. Inconsistent brick and mortar treatments that give the building a bit of an off look.
Although the Vrancor's can be credited with getting projects off the ground (eventually), they definitely aren't winning any design awards. All of their buildings thus far have ranged from terrible to mediocre.
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Hope they're also able to match up the colouring of the bricks and mortar -- is the difference just because they're in the middle of the process, some patches cleaned up and others not?
that patchwork looks awful. You can never match new brick to old. Should have gone for a contrast but dyed the mortar to look older.
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That's gotta be the ugliest building since the jail.
At least make a portico for the entrance or attempt one, maybe an awning.... I know it's not done yet.
I think the building is generally pretty attractive, but a portico (a real one, the width of the building) would be great. No call for it since there is no retail component, though. Just bachelor apartments on the ground floor.
Yikes, the brick in that last picture (thanks, BaconPoutine!) is a disaster.
I think it's too soon to say that the building would have been better demolished, but a case can be made. An aesthetic mess with mixed-use might have been tolerable. An all-residential building that looked amazing would have been, too. It looks like this will be neither.
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