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honte · #**2101** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 1:28 AM**

^ The podium walls look very frightening in that render... I am surprised/saddened they couldn't do more with that part of the project.

EarlyBuyer · #**2102** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 3:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Saber925

I'm not sure if this image has been posted before; I don't recall seeing it. It's from the Aqua website. www.lakeshoreeast.com/aqua-gallery.html

Saber925, I had not seen that image before, thanks for posting it!

Northwest · #**2103** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 12:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by honte

^ The podium walls look very frightening in that render... I am surprised/saddened they couldn't do more with that part of the project.

Agreed, I expected more from the street/park level. This is downright ugly until you look up. The park homes are a disappointment as well. They should pay to ship some giant sequoias and redwoods in from the west coast, surround the base with 100' trees!

the urban politician · #**2104** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 3:18 PM**

^ Yeah, what happened to that wavy thing that was going to be incorporated into the base? I hope this isn't more Loewenberg VE'ing.

Alliance · #**2105** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 3:27 PM**

The wavy thing was always on the northwest corner.

honte · #**2106** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 3:27 PM**

^ From what I remember, it always looked like this from the SE. The wavy thing, which always seems incongruous, is at the NW corner, out of view.

To be fair, this looks like a cartoon drawing a bit, probably generated by the landscape architects to show the plantings etc. The townhouses did look very nice in an earlier official render. But the podium itself is just so flat and bland, there is no denying it.

I know Studio Gang had the "waves versus boxes" concept going on, so they can conceptually "justify" the podium that way. But even for a box (the appropriateness of which I question, concept or not), it doesn't look like a very nicely detailed one.

Alliance · #**2107** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 3:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by honte

I know Studio Gang had the "waves versus boxes" concept going on, so they can conceptually "justify" the podium that way. But even for a box (the appropriateness of which I question, concept or not), it doesn't look like a very nicely detailed one.

Do we know the materials?

2PRUROCKS! · #**2108** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 4:00 PM**

I thought I recall hearing that the base maybe clade in limestone.

Rizzo · #**2109** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 4:16 PM**

The podium walls looks boring. It looks like an office building. I really hope it will come out differently. The roof terrace looks nice though.

aaron38 · #**2110** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

Do we know the materials?

That's what I've been trying to figure out. The close-ups show stone with mortar joints. Even the new render shows a mortar joint pattern. We can hope for limestone, it's not actually that large of an area to cover. But I'm steeling myself for a large swath of painted concrete.

Hopefully the new render is just suffering from the 'cartoonish' nature, as Honte said. It looks like a brocure for a 1950's tract home in Rolling Medows.

Dr. Taco · #**2111** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 4:32 PM**

^ well, hey, it won't be that long until we don't need a render anymore...

aaron38 · #**2112** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 4:33 PM**

On second look, that new render is just a really bad drawing. It looks nighmarish, because there's barely a right angle in it. There are things that I'm positive are right angles that look like they're bent 45 degrees. The townhome bay windows for instance. They're not trapazoids.

I'm just going to ignore it and hope for the best.

Chitown · #**2113** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by aaron38

On second look, that new render is just a really bad drawing. It looks nighmarish, because there's barely a right angle in it. There are things that I'm positive are right angles that look like they're bent 45 degrees. The townhome bay windows for instance. They're not trapazoids.

I'm just going to ignore it and hope for the best.

That particular render is very cartoonish.

Alliance · #**2114** Posted **Dec 11, 2007, 6:57 PM**

...and the color is way over saturated. Just think of it as a bad diagram.

EarlyBuyer · #**2115** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 3:18 AM**

Here's the pdf of all retail space available in Lakeshore East. Aqua is covered on pages 8, 9 & 10.

http://www.lakeshoreeast.com/pdfs/LSE-PRINTABLE.pdf

Nowhereman1280 · #**2116** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 3:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by VivaLFuego

For that much open space, at least part of it should be a public mall/promenade (not the pool, obviously)

I bet I will be able to find a way to sneak up there after it is finished without staying at the hotel or buying a condo...

Dr. Taco · #**2117** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 3:00 PM**

beck, there are 3 units left in the entire building. I'm sure everything offered up there on that residents only podium had very much to do with the buildings popularity. The podium isn't gonna look that awful from street level, and we get a mind-trip building to look at for our troubles

ATLksuGUY · #**2118** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 6:49 PM**

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It looks like theres a UFO in the top left of this pic, what is it? Better call will smith.

BVictor1 · #**2119** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 6:52 PM**

^Looks like a water intake crib.

honte · #**2120** Posted **Dec 12, 2007, 10:42 PM**

I just spent some time at Aqua in person checking out the balconies, which are now three in height. I have to say, my main fear - that somehow you wouldn't be able to read the curvature from the street - was totally wrong. They are in-your-face, and rather bizarre actually. Without the rails, your eyes play tricks on you, and you think they are dipping or drooping sometimes.

My favorite thing about the balconies so far is that they have a rather crude, hand-crafted look. The curves are not perfectly smooth, with some kinks in them etc. It reminds me of the experimental concrete on the Marina City theatre.