cd concept
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Wow! This is a beautiful detailed antique looking development that's definitely needed and to belongs in Yorkville area! As seen in the little thumbnail photo up above.
This is incredibly gaudy and trying way too hard to be a "palace" that will very likely be clad in stucco or precast.
I have to wonder why people here and buying these places like to live in fake castles.
I just don't understand why such gaudy designs are so popular. There are loads of people out there looking for cozy warm coloured condos with good materials and instead we get lazy cold designs for who exactly?If you think this is bad you should see some of the mansions Richard Wengle has designed. Richard Wengle is the go to guy for this kind of stuff (with a few exceptions like his building on prince arthur)
Don't get me wrong. I love false heritage. Again, this discussion has been had elsewhere, that the heritage designs I and many others cherish in our 19th and 20th century built cities, is neoclassicism, or designs built of roman classical architecture with columns and such. Those have stood the test of time because they were build with real materials however, and they had designers and architects build the designs by hand, not some architecture firm with a noname architect behind the design.Yes, you too can have architecture meant for a Disney theme park, right in your own city!
This is architecture meant as a theatre set: 100% phony. But meant to amuse and give off an "impression" of something that it is not. There is no way I can respect this except to the degree to which it pulls off something that it can never be (namely a large 19th century imperial palace).
Does everything have to be contemporary?This is incredibly gaudy and trying way too hard to be a "palace" that will very likely be clad in stucco or precast.
I have to wonder why people here and buying these places like to live in fake castles.
Does everything have to be contemporary?
Ive seen plenty of precast turn out well as long as the proportions and ornamentation is tasteful. The upper section of One Saint Thomas is precast.
It's objectively superior in every way to the Zigg Condos trash next door.
I think neo beaux arts design suits Forest Hill perfectly. This is kind of a streamlined neo beaux arts with a few deco accents. Could it be better? Sure. But the average contemporary condo looks exponentially worse and 'colder' to me.I'd love to see more cozy designs. Look at some of the most popular apartments and condos, those old industrial warehouses with exposed brick, wood beams, bohemian style, even mid century modern. There's just nothing I've see designed for anyone but people with no taste at all and only interested in cold hard designs.
I dont think anyone is advocating for soviet architecture fronted by surface parking lots. Like me, they probably wish to see more Stern designs in Yorkville instead of the current econo-tecture being proposed to replace Cumberland Terrace.Wow! This is a beautiful detailed antique looking development that's definitely needed and to belongs in Yorkville area! As seen in the little thumbnail photo up above.