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Originally Posted by City Wide
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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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?