city hall in reno, nv.
maybe a series of black-ish international style municipal
towers would look good.
towers would look good.
Gonna need to keep this thing power washed (or whatever treatment it is they use now), I see several other buildings outside my window right now that are lighter colors and need it as well. Not against it though.
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I think that was just suggesting that after the municipal buildings are built out, they will then sell off the land that parking deck is on to a private developer, so there will eventually be something built there
The design reminds me a bit of the city hall in Richmond. It’s a building that was built in 1971 but has recently been renovated:
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ASR for Phase I of the New Municipal Complex was submitted
https://community.dtraleigh.com/t/the-raleigh-wire-service/748/1470?u=nickster
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It says ‘rising 300 feet above grade’. So this will be over 35 feet taller than the 301H! Are the elevations different? 
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So they aren’t building any parking with this one? Just using the existing deck on the back of the block?
That is how it appears “reads” to me. And at this site that seems just a bit odd, imo!
Please know that I am not suggesting that they need parking or that they should have parking. Only simply that there are very, very few sites downtown where you start with an existing “below-ground” grade. I would think that it would make it easier and perhaps cheaper than other spots to do underground parking…?
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Not to worry, I hear there is plenty of parking over at Bloc 83. 
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No parking makes it hard for folks to show up and complain to the council!
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Definitely like the new design more - it feels more weighty and solid and properly governmental.
I think those variegated window treatments are going to look incredibly dated in a few years - it feels like half the new residential towers in NYC use that style and it always looks a bit tacked-on and affected.
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I’m not that crazy over the design but I appreciate that it is different from the monolithic glass boxes so I think it will look fine in context. I’m also very much in the camp of “just build the damn thing already and get it over with” when it comes to most DTR projects at this point.
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I’d love for the city to mandate the use of solar panels on all new and existing city owned properties. We need some kind of climate action now and not just in 10-30 years, when everything will be worse.
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Genuinely curious since I don’t follow it that closely, what happens in 10-30 years?
I’ll be too old to care about anything? 
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And or greenery installations. Leaving a rooftop completely empty with no redeeming value should be a thing of the past.
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In my latest project, we are looking into harvesting energy from film on the exterior glass.
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I suggest you watch Al Gore’s recent videos about climate change. I believe they are on YouTube but I know for a fact that it’s on his Twitter account. Also the climate reality corp. has a lot of information on their website.
I like that the variation in fenestration gives visual movement to the facade. While I agree that it might date the building, is that necessarily a bad thing? Good design that’s can be dated to a particular time celebrates our architectural history. For example, it’s easy to date the Oakwood neighborhood in a good way.
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I saw his film “An Inconvenient Truth” back in 2006, but I’m searching for his recent videos now, let’s hope they turn out just as accurate.