Slog - Comments on Just Odd http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the The remarkable thing about the condominium under construction across the street from the Seattle Central Library is not that it's striving for LEED-Gold certification, or that it's the first of what in the future will be many "tall skinny" towers in the financial district, or that the price of the penthouses on its 24th floor range from $1,895,000 to $2,600,000. What's remarkable is this: Designed by Ruffcorn Mott Hinthorne Stine, a firm that's part of the ambitious Stadium West and East project, this colorfully tiled wall on the south facade articulates, according to floor plans, the area along which two... Copyright 2008 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:55:37 -0800 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:45:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Angry Andrew You think the reason all the buildings downtown are condos is because the the city's business tax is so high that no one wants to move into offices in the city?

]]> Angry Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749363 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749363 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:10:13 -0800 Comment by Patrick I think it looks cool, and it's an indication we're learning the right lessons from Vancouver: build unobtrusive density and don't fall into the predictable pattern of aqua glass-and-steel sameness. Yeah, I can't afford it, but I'd rather have execs and lawyers living close to their jobs downtown than commuting from Newcastle. Plus with more political heavies living in downtown the momentum for better transit and neighborhood amenities will increase.

]]> Patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749390 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749390 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:32:24 -0800 Comment by Big Sven I can't really tell what I'm looking at here. Can you post a link to a higher resolution photo? Despite all the nasty things I've said about your graduate education? Thanks in advance.

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749392 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749392 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:33:22 -0800 Comment by Phenics Odd... for once I agree with a Mudede assessment. I too have been watching this install but wondering... a random pattern or are the workers following a plan? And if a plan, what is the end result? To make it look like random, unpatterned blocks of color, or is it still too incomplete to embolden the pattern?

]]> Phenics http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749397 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:42:42 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell Whimsy is a positive thing. We don't need another boring steel and glass penis.

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749426 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749426 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:01:27 -0800 Comment by Dod I have been watching it develop outside my office window. I have to say, I really like it. More so than the other side of the building, in fact. Bring on the color and whimsy! Seattle's office tower architecture is by and large D-U-L-L! Unfortunately, the colors are better viewed up close though, so it's difficult to see the detail from a distance.
Next I'm going to try to decode the formula for the pattern. Is it truly random?

]]> Dod http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749464 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749464 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:33:58 -0800 Comment by Dod Correction:
Seattle's office AND residential tower development is DULL!

]]> Dod http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749469 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749469 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:36:01 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle True, very dull.

We need to make cool stuff like Vancouver does.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749524 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749524 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:06:23 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon charles, i don't think you were in Murka for the blue-and-white glass tile era.

this looks great. how would you have articulated that wall better? compare it to the new hotel on 1st, which looks like shite, or worse, the crap "apache" art hanging off the tower at the north end of Qwest Field.

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749527 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749527 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:08:04 -0800 Comment by NaFun With Seattle's dismal grey for 8 months of the year, it would be nice to see a lot more color in our architecture. Yay for color and whimsy!

But then, I want every architect in the city to try to incorporate some surreality into their works...

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749529 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749529 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:10:38 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew I agree we need more color and architectural diversity.

It's weird that Seattle people totally piss themselves when a building goes up that's neither a glass box nor a Craftsman bungalow.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749626 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749626 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:31:19 -0800 Comment by yowza @3:

http://seattleplans.blogspot.com/2007/05/5th-madison.html

and

http://seattleplans.blogspot.com/2007/06/5th-madison-now-what.html

]]> yowza http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749649 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749649 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:48:32 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Charles, soullessness has to come from within. You cannot force or manufacture soullessness. Creating buildings that mimic the forms of soullessness is inadequate. So you bolt on some whimsy, and create a new kind of soullessness, which will only be fully revealed in the future.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749676 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:09:05 -0800 Comment by Patrick Andrew:
Show me the piss!

]]> Patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749947 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:24:21 -0800 Comment by Vooodooo84 As much as i love you Mudede, you have the architectural taste of Ayn Rand. Glass and cement boxes for the sake of boxiness, and any decorative flourish is a cowardly affront to the vision of modernity

]]> Vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749986 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c749986 Architecture Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:01:55 -0800 Comment by lawrence clark I assume the color is there to break the monotony. It seems to be working to that effect. Nice.

]]> lawrence clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750052 Architecture Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:21:02 -0800 Comment by -B- Believe me once you have hundreds of nondescript green glass condo towers built in Seattle then you will understand why it is important to have something distinct on some of them. Cheap towers usually are boring but sell well so lots will be built.
Vancouver Canada

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750092 Architecture Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:20:07 -0800 Comment by -B- this
http://www.sfu.ca/city/images/condo-towers2L.jpg

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750093 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750093 Architecture Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:22:48 -0800 Comment by Big Sven Thanks, yowza. I kind of like it. I like how it fades to indeterminateness with distance, yet the color choices are very complimentary up close. Before I saw the large image, I thought it might be a little to retro-60's-ish, but this seems to work pretty well...

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c750174 Architecture Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:07:25 -0800 Comment by unvhklmrc vqjdrizwt bldeuhfio osdwzuthg rqkdahjc cpkedy twan sqnho tyxfvuq

]]> unvhklmrc vqjdrizwt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c751024 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c751024 Architecture Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:42:24 -0800 Comment by unvhklmrc vqjdrizwt bldeuhfio osdwzuthg rqkdahjc cpkedy twan sqnho tyxfvuq

]]> unvhklmrc vqjdrizwt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c751038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/the_amazing_thing_about_the#c751038 Architecture Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:45:27 -0800