The grey cladding on the side of the Acorn
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Hey now, they’re 3 stories. You’re cutting 50% off the height. 
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Floorplans are out. Looks like the earliest move-in date on the site is set to September 9.
Costs seem up there, but relatively in line with the Edison.
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Wow. That seems like a whole truck load of money for a studio. I am living in some sort of real estate time warp here in my little village in the Alabama foothills.
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$500/month more than I was paying for the exact same 1/1 apartment at the Elan last year. We desperately need more supply.
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Bedrooms that don’t connect to either their bathroom or closet?
Ahhhh the Elan. Plush, nice place . Used to roll with the senior door dash /Uber eats drivers in the AM. Elan was nice but too hard to deliver to. Weird layout and codes to get in. Was on our do not deliver list. I’m sure residents got their grub anyway plenty of other drivers willing to solve the maze.
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I loved it, the social community in the building was so strong and they had lots of good events. Felt a lot more grown up than the Glenwood buildings. Plus being next to Person Street was huge.
The door numbering system and locked/unlocked staircase doors made NO sense, I’d always come down and grab my delivery from the lobby even though I was the other end of the building.
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The Acorn looks like the mutant sibling of the 3 Founders Row sisters.
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I’m honestly wondering when that side of the Acorn is going to be complete. They’ve got a little over a month to go before their planned leasing date and that side of the building is still incredibly unfinished. Looking forward to the changes.
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god, what a clumsy elevation… the gray wrapping up and over at the parapet and awkwardly ending, the solid hulking façade at the bottom corner, the inconsistency of the cladding treatments… I put this up there with our dreaded seafoam building. Just perplexingly bad
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According to their site, that big grey block is going to have some art over it.
That side is still a ways away, but I think it still has potential to look pretty good.
Still awkward af, art or not. My point overall is that there is no clarity in these designs. It’s just a jumbled mess of materials with little hierarchy or understanding of basic composition, like the designers didn’t spend a day in architecture school.
If you actually pause and look at areas where all of these material treatments intersect, what is going on here? …why? On the left, the brown material is used as a spandrel panel in between the windows. On the right, it’s a full surround, likely because these windows are for some unknown reason a different size here than everything else on the façade. The gray material at the parapet, which could’ve been treated as a frame, just awkwardly floats and ends. There are three different façade depths… The gray+white area comes out further than the white+brown area, and then the gray cladding projects further than that, which makes no sense. I could nitpick the entire building like this but you get the idea.
If someone had taken two minutes to just consider how they could organize the elevation into areas that use a consistent language, it would’ve helped so much… then you’d have a gray “framed” condition, the typical gray+white condition that wraps the building, and a brown “reveal” separating the two.
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Eh it’s better than nothing at the moment. East Downtown Raleigh is sad.
I hope this apartment causes so much issues for Founders Row Condos, that owners start to sell off to a developer so I can finally get better, wider sidewalks on Davie Street.
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You’ve got to be an artist, my friend. Or an architect. Your descriptive words and terminolgy are humorous and the point is well made. Even if you weren’t trying to be funny (which I think you weren’t). Good post though! 
Architect! Yes, we talk funny. 
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