[ActiveTruth]

I like the way it looks also. Whether it was needed or not is another story, but I think it looks cool.

Better then nothing

 

[Dārayavauš]

Once they fill in the skirt/screen, I think this will look much better.

Do you know that this will be happening? I believe it will as well, or is this tubing the finished product?

 

[Surrealplaces]

Platform's kind of rockin the Darth Vader look.

 

[Beazley66]

Agreed

 

[Silence&Motion]

Platform's kind of rockin the Darth Vader look.

More like, the rendering versus the finished product

 

[Mountain Man]

It's not the finished product though...

 

[Silence&Motion]

It's not the finished product though...

The updated rendering appears to show that this is pretty close to the finished product. There's not going to be a mesh covering the pipes. And they're not going to be adding more pipes to the upper levels. The upper levels basically match the updated renderings at this point.

 

[The Familia]

What a piece of trash. Terrible vista point so close to the library. It better get used to make it worth it.

 

[Urb]

Sad

 

[haltcatchfire]

Sad

Is that why the entrance profile is a frown?

 

[Cowtown]

I wonder if painting the metal white would make it look better than the gray metal? It looks unfinished to me, but a such as white might spruce it up a notch.

 

[MissingMiddle]

I can't help but wonder how I'd react if instead we just got another one of these buildings:

I don't think the Platform design achieved what it was going for, but honestly I find it a really cool and interesting building. Its not my favourite, but its avant-garde and I have to at least respect that. I would have appreciated something more refined, but if it functions well and creates engaging conversation about design, I'll hold back on condemning it.

 

[Silence&Motion]

I can't help but wonder how I'd react if instead we just got another one of these buildings:
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I know everyone hates PoMo/historicism, but I actually kinda like this building. It's definitely the least oppressive looking parking garage downtown. You can certainly find many worse examples of 1990s PoMo around.

 

[Mountain Man]

Very disappointing if what we see is more or less the final product.

 

[1875]

we wait two decades on an event center squabbling over nickles and dimes but just light money on fire all over the place on stupid projects like this, or 50 overpasses on a ring road.