taal
Senior Member
From some angles it does look bad in person at the moment, I don't think anyone is disputing that. I'm reserving judgment for a little longer tho, because I think the same thing is happening here that happened with Uptown. Terrible, hideous base that had everyone freaking out (and over roughly the same issue: lousy, blank cladding on the lower levels), but since it stated getting taller everyone's eyes are being drawn upwards and no one seems to mention the base anymore. I think once Trump has another 10 floors poured everyone will be too busy craning their necks skyward to notice what's happening on the bottom 10 floors.
You know what ... you've changed my mind completely with that statement - I, like everyone else, thought uptown was going to be terrible after the first few stories ... and now I absoutly love it - the setbacks, the way it looks on sunny day / everything - the sentiment 'The whole is more than the sum of its parts' really applies in that case - particularly when the parts alone are so crappy.
Also, it looks pretty good in the pic above
Not so sure I'm going to completely reveres my standpoint on this one thing, it's already a good 25+ stories up - and while uptown looks white precast looks OK from most angles and in most light - the granite here can really suffer in some conditions