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Originally Posted by portapetey
No need to be so condescending; I've read the entire thread and viewed all the renderings.
The new one looks pretty much identical to the existing, ugly building.
The previous one, expansion aside, had all new cladding that made it look like an entirely different, clean, and modern building.
Old plan solved the problem of the existing tower's very ugly appearance. New plan does not. That's all I'm saying.
It's a shame that the new, clean, smooth profile (including the expansion) has been abandoned in favor of a very minor modification to the existing tower.
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You're funny. You accuse me of being "condescending" after your "ZOMG, HAVE YOU EVER EVEN SEEN FENWICK?!?!".
I was actually being earnest. Why don't you try it in your next post-- your... 6th one on SSP? (Believe me, you'll know it when I'm being condescending. Like right now.)
In any case, my point, was that a curtain wall is not exactly a "radical" change; the significant changes, architecturally, were going to be the added massing to the tower. That was also the most controversial component.
As fenwick points out above, there will still be re-cladding-- happily, the floor to ceiling glass in units will reduce some of the clunky brutalist aspects of the exterior.