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this reclad has taken so long that the blue glass is now passe and looking old
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... and that small section of gold remains to remind us of what was. I am ok with the blue, it fits in with some of the surrounding area ok, but I don't love it.

IMO it is this era's beige for downtown office buildings and while I feel it is ok so far it may not age well. I feel the gold was more distinctive and made a statement, but this is also an era for understatement.
 
The convenience store has moved from the basement to the main floor near the west entrance

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Temporary closure near the south entrance

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David A said:
... and that small section of gold remains to remind us of what was. I am ok with the blue, it fits in with some of the surrounding area ok, but I don't love it.

IMO it is this era's beige for downtown office buildings and while I feel it is ok so far it may not age well. I feel the gold was more distinctive and made a statement, but this is also an era for understatement.
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That "small section of gold" that remains is actually a separate building with a separate title and separate ownership...

As for the reclad, both inside and out, to me it screams "we have to use some of this... and some of this... and some of that... and OH! where can we add this... and what if we use some of this in between this and that...". At some point someone on the design or ownership team should have stood up and yelled "stop already!!! This isn't going to turn out well". But they didn't and it didn't.

The original curtainwall was past it's "best before date" from a performance perspective, there was at least a continuity between it and everything else. From the strange mullion locations in the new curtainwall to the lighting to the floor finishes, what's there now suffers from a lack of identiy and cohesion and won't age nearly as well as the original.
 
kcantor said:
As for the reclad, both inside and out, to me it screams "we have to use some of this... and some of this... and some of that... and OH! where can we add this... and what if we use some of this in between this and that...". At some point someone on the design or ownership team should have stood up and yelled "stop already!!! This isn't going to turn out well". But they didn't and it didn't.

The original curtainwall was past it's "best before date" from a performance perspective, there was at least a continuity between it and everything else. From the strange mullion locations in the new curtainwall to the lighting to the floor finishes, what's there now suffers from a lack of identiy and cohesion and won't age nearly as well as the original.
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I think you nailed it on this one, Ken. While it's usually nice to see investment in downtown properties, this project really seems to be taking the charm out of what used to be a pretty interesting building.
 
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It should function better and the common area are much improved layout-wise, but way to dumb down what was a classic building.

It reminds me of a stripmall motif from Windermere.
 
Gronk! said:
This thread was started in 2016, but the major podium renovations to the interior and exterior didn't begin until 2023. I believe the other floors were worked on during the interim.
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The overall renovation including recladding of the tower and that work started on-site in August of 2016.
 
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