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Old Posted Oct 8, 2015, 3:38 PM
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Examples of bad tinted glass highrises

I am trying to find examples of highrises with bad tinted glass design. Please post if you know of some.

Here is one that is proposed:
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Old Posted Oct 8, 2015, 6:16 PM
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Not that it isn't a good idea for a thread, but you REALLY don't like that building proposal, do you?
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Old Posted Oct 8, 2015, 8:01 PM
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Ya, I think its tacky and unrefined and the geometric tinted glass is so bad.
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I don't know, looks fine to me, nothing to write home about but not bad.
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Dude, this is the second thread you've tried (and failed) to drum up opposition to this proposal.

Give it a rest. Please.
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I'll never understand why they don't incorporate different colored tinted glass into glass skyscrapers.

And it's never too late. Think how creative one could get replacing some of the glass panels of the Sear/Willis Tower in Chicago, for example! Or the new World Trade Center is NYC!
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^One Wall Centre in Vancouver is a nice example. The contractor switched glass two thirds up I believe. Adds some variety.

For bad examples I'd say the Trump towers in New York or any b-grade highrise in provincial China.
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There's an architect in Montreal that built a museum there, incorporating every color of glass imaginable in that building, a real glass mosaic of color, just the way I invision some of my Lego buildings I build.

You could take any number of older 60's type office towers, with one color for glass, pop out some of those panels, and replace them with different colors, to give the building a new lease on life.
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