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The effort taken to deliver grey metal siding and prison sized windows with higher office slab to slab heights through building out and covering the existing facade. The placement of the windows has more design intent than the average new build maximizing sellable floor space with faked randomness and/or spandrel glass. The outcome is still a structure that just about anyone would describe as bland and cheap looking.
 
maestro said:
The effort taken to deliver grey metal siding and prison sized windows with higher office slab to slab heights through building out and covering the existing facade. The placement of the windows has more design intent than the average new build maximizing sellable floor space with faked randomness and/or spandrel glass. The outcome is still a structure that just about anyone would describe as bland and cheap looking.
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What exactly did you expect them to do, the design of the tower was what it was. Massive prefab concrete panels limiting the size of the windows. They were never going to strip the entire exterior, that's a fast way of making these projects uneconomical and thus...dated and still empty.

It's looking exactly as they said it would, which i don't mind at all. It's a conversion, these aren't going to be masterpieces
 
Correct, to me this is still a big improvement from what is what tho, but it certainly isn't beautiful. The mechanical is what fails before anything structural...they are adding 30 years to these buildings. Plus the density and tax base
 
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