I wonder if they want to sit on it and sell the dev rights like the constellation center shyster in cambridge....I really wish they would give across the street to a competent developer.
I kind of agree. I don't have so much a problem with the **number** of joints, but that they're so inconsistent across the facets of David's projects. Some gaps are an inch, others (in the same plane or rise) are 7/8" or even 1.5". I've grumbled often to his design staff, but they keep doing it. I can never surmise if it's bad design, poor project management from the CM (means and methods in the field, maybe with shop drawings lite on details), VE that limit tolerance correction, or some likely combination of all the above. Blergh.I wish Elkus would put more effort into their paneling designs. They introduce so many joints and it often results in square/squat proportions. That last photo of the corner shows off how stack-of-cubes it ends up looking. Works against the tall double-story reading of the windows.
Their Cambridge courthouse renovation has this same problem except they went even wider.