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The common area in the top of the tower will be overrun by the nouveau literati!

As a landscape designer this visual makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Someone put all of five minutes of effort into it. Sad. It seems Portland will never grow up and take itself seriously.

Hoorah for it being fossil fuel free etc .... however it is an eyesore that is certainly eye catching for all the wrong reasons. You can blah blah on all you want about it being forward thinking but in the end it is a horribly unattractive building. I went by the new dorm at USM today and am...

That's one of the more attractive piles of dirt I have seen in years. It has potential! LOL

Mental health issues are the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of trying to house the homeless in shelters. This problem is not going to be fixed any time soon as the mental health system in Maine and the rest of the country is critically flawed. It can literally take years to get into...

Copper colored perhaps. Real copper is cost prohibitive.

I like the look of the masonry panel piercing the cornice but am assuming these panels will also require some sort of capping to avoid water penetration.

I had my first opportunity to visit Sanford last fall and I was surprised that there was as much there as there is. I think there is a lot of potential in that area.

How rumors get started.

Having VISION is something the city of Portland can NEVER be accused of. They see only that which is right in front of their nose.

The creation of that pedestrian mall is still controversial among Helenans. A lot of historic Victorian architecture was razed to create the mall during urban renewal and it never became greatly successful as they had hoped.

Curious what street in Helena you are referring to .... I know Helena like the back of my hand and that poor town too was ravaged by urban renewal to create the Last Chance Gulch pedestrian mall.

Incompetence at it's finest.

LOVE that random orange siding ..... it adds such a special touch to the architecture. SMH

The idea that it has no soul has nothing to do with location. It has everything to do with architects who can't think outside the box and end up designing a utilitarian cliche'. No thanks to the city of Portland who does not hold them to a higher standard. Demanding that developers maintain...

This building is an embarrassment, especially in such a high profile location. We get exactly as much as we demand.

Hopefully this project will be built as these renderings show. But as they say .... the fat lady ain't sung yet.

It definitely sounds as though their proposal will be underwhelming. Such a waste of waterfront(ish) property.

Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College has nearly 3 times the capacity of what they are proposing at USM. Clearly insufficient for even their small program needs. The other venues available would often be too large for their programming.

For once I agree with you. This building is a nothing burger.