Got a few more, including the parking deck painting!
#slightlylessterrible
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Thanks for taking your time to update us with the many pictures you posted! The parking deck is slightly less terrible painted, lol. I think the best that deck has going for it is the light play from the reflection on the main building. That actually is pretty cool. Thanks again for all the pics!!
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Let’s just say while this deck definitely doesn’t look great it could certainly look a lot worse!
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Hopefully, the light reflections won’t melt any cars in the deck.
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As implausible as that sounds to many, this story has a history of glare causing damage, and even melting a jaguar in London thanks to the Walkie-Talkie building. Enjoy!
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My windows at home definitely make the light hit certain parts of my pear trees, and fries the leaves in the summer.
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It’s the low e coating in the glass. It will melt vinyl siding on houses. But, you need it to meet energy code requirements.
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Only if the shape of the glass functions as a lens concentrating the sunlight. A reflection can’t be more energetic than the energy creating the reflection, unless there is a concentration element. So I guess some windows are concave
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Flat windows won’t melt cars, but there are plenty of instances of damage to other materials, especially vinyl. The walkie talkie in London and I believe a building in Vegas have melted cars due to the curved facades concentrating the energy.
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Yes, true. Even with flat reflections it’s potentially a layer of sunlight on top of an area already receiving full sun 
Oh why oh why couldn’t have this garage been designed either without ramps being along the perimeter, or at least not along Hillsborough Street? They put the ugliest side of the garage facing one of the most ceremonial streets in the entire city. This attempt to hide the ramps with that mishmash of horizontal panels is a disaster. While the Boylan facade is anything but exciting, at least it doesn’t look disorganized and haphazard. That “disguise” facade on Hillsborough isn’t fooling anyone.
If I were designing it, I would have continued the banding from the Boylan side, and then found a way to celebrate the central ramp section of the north facade with something completely contrasting like a living wall, or something to break up the mass of the garage.
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Do these retail spaces ever get filled? Seems like a lot of constantly empty retail spaces beneath parking garages. Lack of character of these spaces may be why. Would like some simple essential retail though.
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are they done window dressing the garage? If so, it is a far cry from the way it appears in the renderings 
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Yeah I feel like that rendering looked decent and they kind of went it a different direction. Disappointed with it as well, but overall I’m okay with the outcome. I feel like that whole project needs to step up the retail tho. Right now it’s dram and draught, a bank that doesn’t seem open, and the taco place that shut down completely as soon as the pandemic hit.
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I often wonder if there’s too much building of retail storefronts/offices and not enough housing. The peace street and Line apartments near Publix adds about 700 apartments so maybe that helps bring customers to the area. Considering the talk about housing shortages, it appears that housing would be more stable development for the city (people are working from home so offices are empty which also takes away customers).
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They certainly can’t complain about not having enough parking.
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