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Old Posted Oct 17, 2024, 5:57 PM
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If you compare the recent pictures to the renderings on page 1 of this thread, there are some obvious value engineering differences. Notably, less windows and smaller windows and a change in façade color.
True, but I was comparing the photos to the most recent renderings in this thread, in post #107 above. As far as I can see in the photos, they're reproducing what's depicted in those more recent renderings.
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Old Posted Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 PM
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No no no. You gotta do the Philly special where a buildings title is The (name). Let's just call it The Lego
If you want to go 100% Philly -- "Lego Square"
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True, but I was comparing the photos to the most recent renderings in this thread, in post #107 above. As far as I can see in the photos, they're reproducing what's depicted in those more recent renderings.
Yeah, and the most recent renderings make this thing look appallingly ugly.
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Yeah, and the most recent renderings make this thing look appallingly ugly.
Yeah, the newest renderings came out when cladding started to begin and there are significant deviations from the original CDR design in colors, complexity, window sizes, etc
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Old Posted Oct 24, 2024, 5:10 PM
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Looks a highrise prison.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2024, 9:17 PM
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I don't get what all the fuss is about. This turd was 'designed', and that's being generous, to be what its turning out to be, big and ugly. It would've have taken a first-tier architect and a developer with deep pockets and a willingness to spend to have gotten anything much different. A general rule, any building with through the wall HVAC units covered by louvers, is going to be a K-mart type of building (I'm referring to what looks like small windows) I don't know what Penn could have done, but this is going to be a long term piece of crap right next to their campus, and extremely hard to miss. Maybe it can be covered with ivy and/or flowers.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2024, 9:38 PM
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I don't get what all the fuss is about. This turd was 'designed', and that's being generous, to be what its turning out to be, big and ugly.

It would've have taken a first-tier architect and a developer with deep pockets and a willingness to spend to have gotten anything much different.

A general rule, any building with through the wall HVAC units covered by louvers, is going to be a K-mart type of building (I'm referring to what looks like small windows) I don't know what Penn could have done, but this is going to be a long term piece of crap right next to their campus, and extremely hard to miss. Maybe it can be covered with ivy and/or flowers.
The original renderings were okay, until the bait and switch updated design (whenever that happened).

To the second part, there are several newer high-rise apartment buildings along Chestnut that are decent. It seems that in very recent years design standards have fallen to extreme lows, or are costs just too high, or as you said, better developers?
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9551...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

Seems to be a theme in Philadelphia of presenting half decent buildings only to see the final product look like a dollar store version. The Ben comes to mind. I can't get over how ugly that building is whenever I see it.

I wonder if other cities (not NYC) have this issue?
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Lots of other cities have that issue, it's not specific to Philly or NY. And Philly has gotten some really solid buildings recently. This one is a pretty awful disappointment, but quite a few of the newer towers in Philly have turned out rather nice, imo.
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The best thing about this project is the residential density being added in West Philly.

Design-wise, it's easily the most underwhelming high-rise we've seen in a number of years. The best hope at this point is good street level interaction.
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Wow that blue is gross. This thing was already borderline and saved only by its decent height, but now it's a full yuck from me.
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Just drove by this it’s stunning how horrible it looks.
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