I'm curious. How many people think the Tower building (housing Blue Parrot, Parallel 42, etc.) is too big and out of scale? Please explain your position either way.
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Is the Tower Building too big and out of scale?
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Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 13:00 #
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I do not mind the scale of the Tower bldg, and when the developers were pitching the Village Crossing, they used the First American bldg and the Tower bldg both to compare the height and scale. The VC development looks out of place to me because it is not right next to anything: it's just sticking out, all by itself. It's also replacing a much smaller building.
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 13:30 # -
Chris, you are absolutely right. Once we get accustomed to it, that building will blend right in.
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 13:41 # -
New topic started for CandiGrace:
I'm curious. How many people think the Tower building (housing Blue Parrot, Parallel 42, etc.) is too big and out of scale? Please explain your position either way.
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 14:01 # -
corbi, I'm not sure "blend right in" is what I would say. There's nothing for it to blend into over there. I think it will appear to stick out for a long time.
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 14:16 # -
The Tower building sits next to the tower and to a behemoth of an mfd and so perceptually it's scale and size seems ok to me. For street margins, I like the trees in the front on the sidewalk, and the bench at the corner. This might help with the scale perception. I also like the angled parking on East for those little stores.
Although scale and size were asked about, the other things I like about the Tower building are its details such as the bas relief artistic designs that follow the building around on East and on Forest, the slate roof, including the severe pitch and the vertical pointy things, the red brick that matches the tower's newly exposed red brick, its Tudor wood timbers, and its gothic windows seen on Forest. To me, it looks 'old and charming', as well as functional as a mixed used town square type of building.
mike
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 15:18 # -
The First American Building and the Tower building are not ugly like the Village Crossing building is. THAT is the difference.
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 16:13 # -
Catherine, how can you say that when the building is not even half completed. Will you at least give it a chance.
Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006 16:19 # -
I don't think it requires impeccable taste or aesthetic foresight to make this deduction. It is already ugly; nothing that happens at the top will make what is there less ugly. Also, it IS out of scale with the building that houses Parallel 42. It will have more floors and, if I am not mistaken, be taller.
But there is no point arguing aesthetic matters. I am satisfied to let the town be the judge.
Posted Thursday Dec 28, 2006 16:22 # -
Catherine - understanding scale involves viewing the building as a whole - something that is impossible now. Look at some of the old pictures of Riverside in Grumpy's. When the Refrectory was built it was completely out of scale to the rest of Riveside.
Posted Thursday Dec 28, 2006 16:42 #
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