Posted Feb 27, 2016, 7:42 AM
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Philly -> Osaka -> Tokyo
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: The biggest city on earth. Literally
Posts: 5,863
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The best word to describe this project might be hypertrophic.
I don't have sympathies for the Hawthorne NIMBYs here. The site is CMX-5, on the corner of the two widest streets in most of South Philly, and a block from a subway stop. It should be dense and urban.
This project's problems aren't related to that part. Instead, the problems stem from overwrought massing and bizarre design decisions (a rooftop shopping village? Really? Wasn't that the most-panned part of Blatstein's Provence proposal?) that create a patina of monolithic hugeness. The structure needs to be redesigned and re-massed. And for the love of God, get rid of that rooftop village!
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