Few Temple students like the Edge. The pictures don't tell the whole story: when you look at it, the end wall concrete changes color randomly in panels which, of course, makes it seem cheap. I've known people who lived there and from all I've heard, it's a boring place, with bare concrete floors, walls, ceilings, leaky toilets, and random F-- You's carved into the stairwell concrete--concrete that, as I've said before, it seems the developer or contractors or whatever were so cheap that they couldn't even make sure the concrete was the same
shade (although I do realize that as a building rises, different mixes are needed, lighter and lighter in consistency) and what is, architecturally speaking, the most important feature!...
It's one of those loathings that takes time to develop, but for me, the Edge eminates an aura of cheapness, as if the building was going to fall apart any day now. And I do not trust Bart Blatstein (although I do wonder if Erdy-McHenry by different developers is less...atrocious).
BTW, here's what other Temple students say on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...q%3Dthe%2Bedge and, I'm sorry, I forgot how to hyperlink shorter links.
EDIT: What Erdy-McHenry says about the Drexel Dormitory:
http://www.em-arc.com/projects/34rh.html