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Originally Posted by emathias
Needs more orange. I live near the River North Hooters, and two Germans I have been hosting over the weekend went there last night "just to say they'd been." No accounting for taste ...
Is that a real variant?
For those who couldn't figure it out, that's the location of the proposal for 707 N Wells, but a lot of surrounding buildings are missing for some reason.
I suppose it is more "contextual" but only if the context is that Flair Tower thing on Erie ...
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Let's just really hope that this wasn't an unsophisticated developer/architect team's response to unsophisticated River North NIMBYs. For me, this is absolutely the most frustrating type of awful design that I see in this city. Either when you have a development/design team that simply doesn't know any better, or just caves to any uninformed, unknowing neighborhood 'feedback', and produces a design to be more 'contextual', inoffensive etc when in fact it is not at all, and usually ends up being ridiculously bad postmodern or neotraditional garbage. The obviously better contextualism would be to keep the design modern, but respectful, taking some scaling, massing cues, etc. Just the slightest bit of design sophistication is needed. By appearances, nobody seems to have it in the case of 707 Wells. The first version (if this was infact the chronological order) was right to be modern, but it was a clumsy, disrespectful attempt. So then there's this preposterous over(mis)reaction by pulling a 180 and making it some beige painted concrete pomo schlock in an attempt to be more contextual, when in fact it is anything but!