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Old Posted Apr 4, 2018, 7:09 PM
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Originally Posted by freerover View Post


There is no way they changed the material during construction. There is no way they would be able to do that without submitting changes to the city. Whatever building you see at the end of construction was what they intended the entire time. The designs still call for half of the podium to have exposed ventilation without windows.

The ABJ could be wrong but I just really don't think the developer would be using the renderings they are using if the design changed that drastically. I can't think of any building that didn't update renderings after such significant changes. It still might not look that good once it's done but give it a chance.
Actually, once you begin construction, the changes you make to the plans are submitted to the city but they don't get posted on the city's permit site unless the changes are so drastic that they impact the site development permit. Things like adding to the number of floors, increasing the impervious cover, that kind of thing. Changes made during construction are handled through change orders. The public wouldn't see those so unless someone from Trammell Crow confirms it, we won't know if there have been upgrades to the building's skin and/or garage ventilation.

With regard to renderings, they are not required to be updated. They are not even required to be done at all. Line elevations in the site plans are all you really need to get your project approved, and even those don't get updated after the site development permit is issued.

Full color renderings are generally produced strictly to market the project, first to attract investors to fund it, and secondly to attract tenants after construction starts but before the building takes shape. Renderings are expensive and if your rendering is close enough to the original, you can continue to use it in your marketing regardless of if there were changes made to the exterior of the building. Of course, if your rendering shows a blue glass 20 story tower and you end up with a red brick 5 story building, you are going to want to either update the renderings or scrap them altogether.
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