Raleigh-area Mall / Life-Style Center / RTP Redevelopments

Am I crazy, or does this random glass box look really stupid slapped onto the side of what is an otherwise really good looking exterior …? It was almost a really great looking building lol

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I’m not a fan either!
It especially bothers me that the horizontal datum lines don’t line up as the facade transitions from one design language to the other.

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i’m 100% certain before the design was final, there was a rendering of just the same repeating pattern of offset windows here…This version with the smooth glass protruding box probably was deemed better to break up the repetition somehow. I don’t hate it like you do.

This is the leaning building that juts out towards 440 at an angle, right?

It does look like someone needs to powerwash the Renaissance though. It’s probably their unfortunate EFIS color selection, but that thing looks dingy as hell by comparison.

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I could not get all the way back there and I think the next apartment building will be up against 440 and I could not get down.

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