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Originally Posted by cab
I mean look at those views, this building doesn't even try to maximize them. At least turn the slab at and angle on top of a pedestal. Is this an architect issue or a developer? Do architects even TRY and suggest alternatives or are they full bore with the whole full block clean slab design?
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this is what happens when you have a firm that handicaps itself by the developer. The firm could try and suggest ideas or put together presentations for the developer by saying angling it this way would allow for higher profits for the views it would capture. But in cases like this, a developer comes in says I need a tower to cost this much with this square footage and the architect comes back with something like this because it is easy and a large firm can push this out without spending too much money on their part. And who knows the architect might be telling himself crap like, "giving the developer what they want here means we will be able to be more experimental on other projects, which is just a load of crap."
Basically the problem is an architect that managed to lose there balls somewhere along the line and a developer who has zero taste and has no idea how a city functions properly and how they can be apart of that solution. So that is who you blame for this crap. (granted you can also blame the banks for not funding experimental projects or architecture that pushed the limits, they like to fund projects that have been proven over and over, like the big box.)