Bay Village Apartment Tower | 212 Stuart St. | Bay Village

It also looks like, in the render, the top of the building had screens (to cover the mechanicals?) which were replaced with fake windows. The windows now continue to the top of the building. Also, the back section of the building projected out on the right side in the render, it's now recessed behind the final building (I'm sure there's a better way to say that). I'm assuming that all of these change were cost-cutting measures?
 
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Not a fan of white matte paneling (as on this and on the Avalon), at least in a climate like New England's. It tends to look dingy and not age well. This does look better in person, though, where the 3D vertical shaping of the panels is more apparent than in the photos.
 
I genuinely think this is the worst example of the aLtErNaTiNg WiNdOwS trope because if *only the scallops* had changed their width over different floors, then it would be an interesting way to provide texture and cast dynamic shadows over the face of the building. With the addition of the alternating windows, it just looks very disjointed, jumbled, and even unstable.
 
I think that at least in person it looks much better. Not that its great, but its at least better. The scalloping really doesnt come through at all in pictures for some reason.
 
I don‘t understand anything about this building and I think it looks terrible. The asymmetric windows, the grouping of multiple floors to look like one big floor, the 3D elements that don’t line up. Do architects actually think this is good?
 
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