So that’s pretty much this angle. You get to walk out to a delightful parking deck entrance view across the street!
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WOW is that not ugly as shit…
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Does anyone have vacancy statistics for downtown hotels or know where to find that? I just can’t picture how this hotel will be very full considering all the new hotels that have been built/planned in the past 3-4 years.
The other thing to think about - the lot around the Masonic Lodge has to be on every developer’s hit list - fingers crossed that bland long side will not be visible at all for very long.
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I just ran across this quote in an interview of an Austrian architect in Architecture and Artisians blog.
“Contemporary architecture has been progressively desiccated, undermined and commodified through the instrumental processes of the development industry and professional practice, together with the reductionism of media technology and market consumption demand. This book is an attempt to uncover the path that led to this diminishment. Perhaps it is also an act of camaraderie for those who care deeply about architecture and a tentative suggestion of a truer pathway.”
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It’s boring alright. Sure would be nice to get some hotels that actually have something interesting on the ground floor, like a restaurant or café. Ah well, at least it won’t be a parking lot anymore.
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Are you positive there is no ground floor retail included? It doesn’t say so on the floor plan, but also doesn’t really seem to indicate what that first floor is (just shows as one huge floor plan with no separated spaces?)
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I wonder if the people of Paris complained about all the identical 4 over 1 residential building being built in 1850’s.
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Many of them did! Same complaints - bland, no character, soulless, etc.
That said, I have a sneaking suspicion our versions won’t age as well.
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Agree on not aging well, do not see blue glass being swooned over by historical societies in 150 years. But then maybe world will be out of Cobalt and Copper by then and can not make blue glass anymore.
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Kinda just guessing based on the renderings. I suppose it’s possible!
Nice to see a crane on this side of downtown.
There goes my view!
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Wow, looks a lot taller from the angle in your second pic! And your view is simply improving! At least you get to look at the much more attractive apartment side of this project and not that ugly ass hotel!
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I sympathize. Until you’ve lived in a shadow, you just don’t understand.
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Ideally a city should have no shadows and no buildings. Only beautiful trees and one person’s home.
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David Cox and Stef Mendell have to fight over who gets the home
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Still in Miami? Hit me up. I’m in Miami too.
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Back in Raleigh but probably revisit long layover again. Miami huge.
