Maybe I care too much about the work I do, but I can't believe it took so much to get the developer to put forward a halfway decent design. The fact they were willing to build that at that intersection is scary.
Maybe I care too much about the work I do, but I can't believe it took so much to get the developer to put forward a halfway decent design. The fact they were willing to build that at that intersection is scary.
The new design is a massive improvement...............
Designed by Pickard Chilton and HKS, the project infills an 0.8 acre site with excellent accessibility to Tech Square to the south and a 3 minute walk to the Midtown MARTA Station on the north. The base of the building integrates seamlessly into the surrounding urban fabric and activates the corners with 6,000 square feet of leasable space. The architecture at the street level combines glass, wood and steel elements to create an inviting human-scale environment that reveals the hive of activity that will animate the lobby lounge. The tower is a series of modulated surfaces, thoughtfully detailed and culminating in a series of rooftop balconies with striking views of the skyline.
Overall, the Midtown Development Review committee voiced enthusiastic support for the project, noting the high level of refinement and detail in the submittal package, including an architectural model used to illustrate the lower floors. There were questions about vehicular egress on 7th Street, the possibility for additional on-street parking, and façade treatment and pedestrian egress from the parking structure. The development team will address these questions and provide additional information about streetscape details in a follow-up submittal.
Wow, that looks like an exceptional street level for an office tower. Most of the time, it's just a huge glass curtain that isn't very inviting to your average pedestrian, but that looks inviting for someone like me who isn't working in the offices of the tower itself. Sounds like they gave high remarks for the project.
At the DRC meeting, they said that if everything goes smoothly in the permitting process, it will be under construction by the end of the year.
Apparently AIG is going to be the lead tenet for this project. AIG's is currently located in one of Cousin's Perimeter office and their lease is up next year.
Questions for the architects and others out there: Why doesn't the Cousins proposal rise up towards BofA Tower. Seems like it would fit in better with the skyline and create a natural sight line if the tip of the tower was on the south side of the building facing downtown instead of the north. Perhaps I'm only thinking this because the rendering we have doesn't show northern midtown.
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this would be huge. Developers, keeping bringing the jobs and residences to midtown, this is where people want to live and work.
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