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Originally Posted by Jibba
^Unless it was skin-thin aluminum or stainless, it would disrupt the proportions of positive-to-negative space. Cladding would also obscure the structural subtleties of the concrete, which I'm glad are expressed.
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I just don’t see painted concrete elsewhere. None of the big NY towers have it. Nor the bigger London residential towers. And that includes the ones that aren’t all glass. I’m excited for the terracotta on 400 LSD, though that will probably be VE’d out and ruin the project entirely.
Chicago didn’t used to be all painted concrete. And I don’t just mean pre-war towers; somehow it went from marble or white granite (can’t remember) on Water Tower Place, to various shades of pink and red on 980 Michigan, 900 Michigan and others in all of their PoMo glory, to beige paint on Park Tower. And that’s a prime location, so that’s not the problem. Did something change in the building codes? If so, change it back quickly.
But yes, use metal cladding, or stone, or brick would be nice (and actually looks very cool when applied to a large tower). If real stone or some other cladding material is not a possibility for cost reasons, then maybe the ratio of positive-to-negative space needs to change. I don’t think the white paint looks good. It looks like a condo tower in Ft Lauderdale.