Shocked, I'm just shocked...
Oh wait, this has literally been the conversation since the day this design surfaced. Here's a quote of mine from like the 4th page of this thread:
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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
Completely ridiculous. The beef with this design has NOTHING to do with economics. The fact is this design is going to be precast trash. You know it. I know it. We all know it. That is the only economic function here. As such, we can deduce that building in this style is NEVER a good idea. We are not getting a 15 CPW here period, for the very same economic reason you listed. What I expect is for developers from other cities not to come here and drop a heaping load of shit in our city and set it ablaze. Everyone knows this design is just going to turn out like another Elysian with classy materials like corrugated tin apparently salvaged from a slum in Haiti and what essentially amounts to freeway retaining wall components for a curtain wall.
The richest part of this whole design is that this is what Related thinks is "stepping up their design game" or whatever ridiculous quote we saw a while back was. How such culturally vapid people rise to the top of massive companies like Related is completely beyond me. What they think they are building is a 1926 Dusenburg, what they are really building is a 1996 Caddilac Deville, and what we are debating over is whether we want our shitty mid 90's GM product to come with a false fabric top or just hardshell.
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Seriously, they didn't even buck up for corrugated warehouse siding like Elysian, they even VE'd the paint job out of this design. Are we all still surprised that Related is a garbage developer who doesn't give a shit what a deuce they drop out of their ass here? Exhibit A as to why we should permanently ban ye olde classical horseshit as a style and Related as a developer from this city.
Oh and they are putting up the "real stone" on the base and it only goes up two floors and is a horrible mismatch tone compared to the concrete above it. Not. Fooling. Anyone.