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

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Something about that facade just isn't sitting right with me. Maybe it's the off-centered alignment, or the color, or the visible gaps between panels, I'm not sure it's going to come out looking like the renders. I know the glass will probably make a difference, but just looking at the glass installed on the lower levels, I don't know if it will be enough to save it for me.
 
gac108 said:
Something about that facade just isn't sitting right with me. Maybe it's the off-centered alignment, or the color, or the visible gaps between panels, I'm not sure it's going to come out looking like the renders. I know the glass will probably make a difference, but just looking at the glass installed on the lower levels, I don't know if it will be enough to save it for me.
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I have to agree. The horizontal lines where the panels realign just look sloppy and unfinished to me.
 
I'm not loving it, but I really need to see it finished before I judge completely... I'm gonna be seeing this one a lot since its about 500 feet away from me.

I agree the limestone panels don't look good... and once they're water soaked will look dreary. I'm not sure why they bothered touting them as limestone because they could have saved money and just used concrete.

The misaligned contours also bother me.
 
Yeah, just looking at the corners where the panels overshoot just a bit is killing me.
 
I see so much to hate here but I'm going to bite my tongue and let things play out a bit more. What I will say is I'm surprised how little of a difference that dark glass makes to the overall appearance.
 
I'm holding out until its done, too. That's the price of experimentation with facades. I'd rather have this than another terra cotta, precast brick, or alucobond panel, to be honest. When it's all wrapped up it might not be as bad as others are suggesting. The interfaces between the panels is a bit annoying, though I'm not sure how it could look better. Horizontal bands would break up the solid vs. void they were clearly trying to go for here, and if they were just continuous panels, that would give an entirely different (and not pleasant) design. I may be recalling wrong, but I believe BCDC requested to break up the facade quite a bit. That, or it was a design goal of the architect from the early phases; there were a good amount of studies on it.

One question I continue to have is now that they're up in real-life, its hard to imagine how/if these panels are going to be lit, as they were originally rendered...
 
Swung by today to see it for myself. I liked it a little more in person, but I keep running into the same feeling that it's simultaneously doing too little and too much: design wise it's very simple yet the effect is fussy and restless. Oh well, time will tell.

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The design concept looks nice here...

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It would have been interesting if the designer had used the offsets in the scalloped parts to encode a message.
 
RandomWalk said:
It would have been interesting if the designer had used the offsets in the scalloped parts to encode a message.
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Howeler+ Yoon included a pattern of Sean Collier's badge number in braile as an attempt to keep skateboarders off the MIT Collier Memorial, and the lighting is mapped to the position of the stars that night, so it wouldn't have been the first time..
 
Someone brought up water proofing concerns on this thread earlier. And now every time I look at the building I think, "No amount of epoxy or caulk will be enough to fill all those uneven gaps." It's seriously giving me anxiety.
 
AmericanFolkLegend said:
Someone brought up water proofing concerns on this thread earlier. And now every time I look at the building I think, "No amount of epoxy or caulk will be enough to fill all those uneven gaps." It's seriously giving me anxiety.
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It's functioning as a rain-screen so water penetration isn't an issue with those gaps. Doesn't need to keep the water out because the barrier is behind it all.
 
Bananarama said:
It's functioning as a rain-screen so water penetration isn't an issue with those gaps. Doesn't need to keep the water out because the barrier is behind it all.
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Yes, but I have to wonder how that rainscreen façade is going to like New England freeze thaw. It certainly does not appear to be designed to drain well (a key feature of a proper rainscreen) with all those trapping surfaces. All that natural limestone is going to end up spalled as hell.
 
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