Those brown panels is what bothers me about the Cadence. Those ugly panels will remind me and maybe would even create recurring nightmares of the current Pioneer Plaza. Some of you are against murals or wall sculptures, maybe a nice iron wrought in place of those brown panels will save the day and embarrassment,
http://www.tucsonhomeloanblog.com/wp...14_1318201.jpg .
I know that some of you like the TEP building, that's fine. But my issue with the TEP is that it's too short for it's design. Standing besides it and looking up the TEP, I'd asked myself 'where's the rest of it?'. Plus the columns are too plain looking. If you are going to put a lot of glass in a building, might as well cover it at least 80-90 percent of the building. TEP has about 50 percent glass, 50 percent something else (mortar, cement etc..). Imagine the former Citigroup/Unisource (One church north?) building with 50 percent concrete...won't look good...like this
http://www.deconcinimcdonald.com/offices/tucson/ (might as well get rid of the glass). Not far away from the deConcinni building at Broadway, is a new retirement home painted in pink with mostly concrete - now, that looks good. TEP building has a very confusing architecture. I think the TEP architect is either drunk/drugged or was trying too hard to make a name for him/herself.
Reason for Editing : Casitas on East Broadway ,
http://www.lrd-az.com/display/casitas-2/ , the pink retirement home referring above . It only cost about 5.5 million and it looks good,
http://www.tofelconstruction.com/Cas...tasOnBrdwy.htm . I'm nowhere near retirement age and I wanna move at this place! ,
http://www.cooperthwaite.com/#/archi.../panoramic/017
We need to be critical on what buildings gets built in the Old Pueblo , otherwise we might end up with a building that looks like this -->
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...lding_Pano.jpg