Video update. And comments about more development proposals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7w3i9-GQh0
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Video update. And comments about more development proposals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7w3i9-GQh0
Drove by a couple of weeks ago. Moving along but still slow. Looks like the south side of Alfred will be completed by late August at best.
I think the new announcement could involve the former Brewster Douglass sure or maybe those patches flanking Adelaide between John R and Brush streets.
Could this be the new development in BP?
https://detroit.curbed.com/2019/6/4/...-park#comments
The whole thing is ugly, and I'm an architect
Yes he is wrong... it is BUTT UGLY!! These black and gray shoe boxes have no nuance with the surviving victorian houses. The difference in architecture between them is so jarring, as to make it very unappealing. As much as I hear some on this forum grousing about the outcome of Orleans Landing... had those been built here instead of along Atwater... their brick colors would at least have matched somewhat with what survived before. What we have now reminds me of Habitat 1967 in Montreal... and will likely appear dated with the random window placement within 20 years.
Is the butt ugly comment a criticism of City Modern... Really? Has there been a more successful project in Detroit in a half century? Where does the money flow? Not public money for specious projects that wouldn't be viable without it. Where do real people want to spend?
Gistok, we agree on most things except contemporary architecture. You seem to be in the same camp as Prince Charles, the laughingstock of architecture criticism. Uh oh...
I support preserving historical architecture, like you do. I'll happily join you on your tours. I do NOT support trying to build historical architecture today. Learn from what worked and what hasn't, imagine what best serves, and apply contemporary possibilities in the ways they do best.
City Modern Town Homes are my type of place. Well laid out, large windows, unobstructed city views and no damn basements.
Yes 90% of millennials prefer walkable meaningful housing as opposed to some detached crap box in Canton. that is true.
George Jetson-esque? While there is some mid century influence here it is very watered down and modernized.
The new townhomes will have red brick and a more basic look so rejoice.
City Modern is the best residential development in Detroit in over 50 years.
In fairness architecture has been shit since the start of the 1940s so..eh
I'm with you Gistok.. The brick color, the window placement, it feels like just a step-up [[or shall I say "walk-up") from the Woodward Place.. Just add in the suburban subdivision sign for City Modern and there you have it.. These townhomes look nothing like the renderings and videos, which were exciting due to the collaboration between firms from around the country. Something happened between then and now, was it cost cutting? Was it laziness?
It literally looks exactly like the renders. You people are mad.
Should have known better. I'm not going to update this thread again since it just runs with absolute idiocy like this. If you don't like it, good for you! you want a cookie? a prize maybe? news flash nobody gives a flying shit.
Worldsgreatest... some of us on this forum can agree to disagree [[we never agree 100% on anything)... and we just state our opinion and move on, without making a scene, or getting ad hominem.
You on the other hand just need to put on your big boy pants and stop the pouting... :p