Red Mars
Senior Member
Jun 30, 2021
The window-wall here is no worse than what they're using at The Well, which is/was supposed to be a signature project. Shrug/
I think @condovo's point is Time and Space gets a disproportionate amount of hate for its window wall. Meanwhile, supposedly flagship projects like The Well get away with some fairly ugly window wall because of the project's overall aura. Sure, T&S is not looking promising, but what can you expect from a mass market production building? Every time people are triggered about a cheap, ugly building on this forum makes me laugh because it's like they were born yesterday with each new project.
Let's also not forget about the hulking mass of this turd. Pemberton could've chosen to design a complete block filled with local amenities, shops, some open green/POPs space, etc. This site is huge and could've accommodated all that, as it almost rivals the size of The Well.My objection isn't that it is cheap and ugly, or even that it will block my view. It's that it's so huge and will mostly be full of parked cars.
There is no real comparison here. The "hate" for T&S is well deserved until they do something to redeem that. As for The Well, it's already made those concessions in droves. So all you are really left with are the opinions that The Well is not your thing, but somehow this project is.I think @condovo's point is Time and Space gets a disproportionate amount of hate for its window wall. Meanwhile, supposedly flagship projects like The Well get away with some fairly ugly window wall because of the project's overall aura. Sure, T&S is not looking promising, but what can you expect from a mass market production building? Every time people are triggered about a cheap, ugly building on this forum makes me laugh because it's like they were born yesterday with each new project.
And you seem rather bitter about that. So this likely comes down to opinions...ones which we'll unlikely ever agree to.^^^ The window-wall at The Well isn't any better than the window-wall here. The Well is supposed to be a flagship project. Time & Space never had such pretensions. The Well gets fawned over on UT, undeservedly. Time & Space gets trashed, probably deservedly. But at the end of the day, the window-wall treatment at both projects is crap and the fawning over The Well probably should stop and the trashing of Time & Space probably should calm down.
Isn't the window-wall at The Well mostly surrounded by red brick? I'd have loved to see red brick here. Also, the spandrel colour there seems to better blend in with the windows than the light grey used here. Plus basically everything else about that project is way better than this one. They're not really comparable in any way.