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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 10:50 PM
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From an optimist's POV, they add a splash of color to a cheap building. From a realist's POV, it's easier to get local support for an affordable development if the building is obviously cheaper-looking than the neighbors' full-priced homes, even if it means their neighborhood looks tackier.
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This is some pretzel logic. Somehow the neighbors have higher property values if it looks like poor people live nearby?

I think a better explanation is that socially-minded architects are intentionally choosing to reject the kind of muted color palettes that are now associated with luxury housing / gentrification. In this view, bright colors are seen as "working class" with a positive association. It's also a rejection of the dour material palettes of 20th-century public housing, and it's subtly linked to cultural traditions from Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean.
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2023, 11:00 PM
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It's not pretzel logic it's social psychology. People want "fairness" and when they don't feel that's present (i.e. market-rate vs. affordable rates for similar units in the same neighborhood), they'll settle for a lesser common good to feel higher in the social hierarchy.

And sure, the color influences may be true, but architects spin shit all the time about origins of their fads. It also kinda proves my point that they're trying to visually distinguish between housing for different classes within the same neighborhood... "here working class folks, feel pride in being working class with these pops of color, while luxury (market-rate) housing will continue to look different (more tasteful)"
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Would you feel better if the pops of color were missing? Because as a material alone, its pretty much used all over in new construction.

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Old Posted Jan 27, 2023, 12:06 AM
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All-Affordable Apartment Building At Edgewater Streets & San Depot Unveiled With Alderman ‘Deeply Invested’

The proposal calls for redeveloping a Streets and Sanitation depot on Broadway into an 11-story apartment building with all-affordable units.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/01...eply-invested/

Happy to see Broadway in Edgewater continue to develop beyond the strip mall mecca that it was a decade ago. Still much to do but we've come along way in the past decade. This one looks great and is higher density than a lot of others - a borderline highrise. The flash of color is a little silly but inoffensive enough.
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Old Posted Jan 27, 2023, 12:32 AM
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Would you feel better if the pops of color were missing? Because as a material alone, its pretty much used all over in new construction.

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Great video (and thanks ChiPlanner for also posting it). I understand this is a modern way of building and personal taste aside, since we need more housing and this is a cheap & effective way to weatherproof, then build it. But it'd look so much better better if the coloring scheme avoided setting apart the housing as affordable. Given the paint can be any color (likely a little more $ for metallics/mattes), it seems like it's an intentional way to mark those that "don't belong" in a neighborhood.

It doesn't even need to be all monochromatic and/or neutrals, the red example from the video isn't half bad. But in their current state here in Chicago, it's not hard to imagine these will be first on the demo slate when the time comes (~40 years) if they're not renovated inside and out.
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Great video (and thanks ChiPlanner for also posting it). I understand this is a modern way of building and personal taste aside, since we need more housing and this is a cheap & effective way to weatherproof, then build it. But it'd look so much better better if the coloring scheme avoided setting apart the housing as affordable. Given the paint can be any color (likely a little more $ for metallics/mattes), it seems like it's an intentional way to mark those that "don't belong" in a neighborhood.

It doesn't even need to be all monochromatic and/or neutrals, the red example from the video isn't half bad. But in their current state here in Chicago, it's not hard to imagine these will be first on the demo slate when the time comes (~40 years) if they're not renovated inside and out.
I think you are confusing what you see as something that other people would see and notice and associate in this particular way. I guarantee that the overwhelming majority of people, if they notice these somewhat small panels at all - and most won't -, would think "neat" and then move on about their day. They wouldn't even put two and two together that the people walking in and out of the building are "other" in the way you are.
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I'm sure the average person walking through these neighborhoods would notice bright yellow/green/blue panels that make the buildings look like cheap European hostels. Regardless, for those of us who pay even mild attention to new developments across the city, there's still clearly a trend of objectively tacky colored panels reserved for affordable housing.
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God 1020 Randolph is such a great infill project. Small in scale but beautiful in incorporation with the existing neighborhood.
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New 7 story (85.5 ft tall) 100 unit building with 32 parking spots at Ashland & 21st Pl, across from Benito Juarez HS. This is currently a big vacant lot and will be built by The Resurrection Project, so it should be mostly if not all affordable housing. Half mile from the 18th St Pink Line stop. Will be named Casa Yucatan

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^This is where I like the random panel scheme on the facade. The drawing seems to suggest angled walls inset at the windows. Even the part to the right appears to show some depth and relief in the cladding system. A nice departure from the flat “wallpaper” pattern designs that have been common
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I was wondering when TRP would get to their next project. Glad to see they are full steam ahead now that the two Casa Durango buildings are finished.

I hope the approvals on this one are easier - Alderman Sigcho can practice what he preaches and approve this one quickly.

Talk about a terrible location, though - Ashland/Cermak is an extremely unpleasant intersection for drivers and pedestrians alike. A new dense residential building can only improve it...
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I just saw another 5 floor skinny development at 2821 N Orchard that I don’t recall seeing posted here. Nothing to write home about design-wise, but it’s nice to see increasing number of 5 floor skinny proposal like this and the one on Broadway.

https://chicago.urbanize.city/sites/...?itok=ORuxa5b7

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[MODERATOR NOTE] Please stop posting images of buildings in other cities. . . if you must make reference, please use hyperlinks. . .

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Old Posted Jan 30, 2023, 9:29 PM
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I just saw another 5 floor skinny development at 2821 N Orchard that I don’t recall seeing posted here. Nothing to write home about design-wise, but it’s nice to see increasing number of 5 floor skinny proposal like this and the one on Broadway.

https://chicago.urbanize.city/sites/...?itok=ORuxa5b7

https://chicago.urbanize.city/post/c...2821-n-orchard
Yikes! Hanna Architects sure gets some mileage out of that one design scheme they’ve been using since 1999.
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Zoning Board of Appeals indicates that the 1 story building at Montrose & Richmond, a few blocks west of Horner Park, could be redeveloped into 4 separate 3-story buildings with 6 units each for a total of 24 units. The current building was most recently Twisted Hippo Brewing. A few blocks south of the Francisco Brown Line stop.

Candea Development is the developer

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^ This and the apartment building burnt down last year
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