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1 hour ago, bulldogger said:

Maybe someone with an engineering/architecture background can fill me in on something.  In the rendering, everything looks straight up and down on the building.  The actual building has multiple locations where the columns are at slight angles.  Why might that be?

 

 

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Is it only on that side of the building? 

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On 8/2/2017 at 11:20 AM, bulldogger said:

Maybe someone with an engineering/architecture background can fill me in on something.  In the rendering, everything looks straight up and down on the building.  The actual building has multiple locations where the columns are at slight angles.  Why might that be?

 

 

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Not an engineer, but my first assumption was that if it's not shoddy construction (hey, it happens - anyone remember the developer spending an additional $16M to add extra bracing to the Paramount) it must have something to do with load transfer.

A quick google search brought up a similar incidence in NYC: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Crooked-Construction-Columns-Union-Square-New-School-Building-Design-Plan-172216071.html

 

 

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I must admit this leaning column thing is a new one on me. I've watched a few high rises go up over the years and have never seen it, though someone here provided an example of the technique being used on a building in NYC. I wonder how it affects the attachment of the exterior skin or cladding which, as far as I can see in the renderings, is all perfectly vertical. Seems like any kind of bridging or tying into these leaning columns they'd have to do in order to keep the exterior in a vertical plane, would weaken the connection.

It's just weird, I tell ya!!!! 

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12 minutes ago, jack said:

The renderings must not be accurate. The columns are probably designed that way for design purposes. 

Here is a construction pic and a rendering of the same portion of the building shown from a similar angle and vantage point...

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Looks like all the support columns on the corners are going to be encased by the exterior skin, with the exterior walls and sliding glass doors facing the balconies, connected to the skin at the ends and at the top and bottom.

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Imagine how amazingly dense the N Rosalind E Central intersection would have been if the City Centre Tower had ended up being built too. It would have been across from Modera. They never officially said City Centre is cancelled (it's current status is actually "approved"), but we haven't heard anything in almost a year, so it unfortunately seems it likely won't happen. Then again, most of us had given up on Tremont, and then it was revived out of nowhere.

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34 minutes ago, orange87 said:

Imagine how amazingly dense the N Rosalind E Central intersection would have been if the City Centre Tower had ended up being built too. It would have been across from Modera. They never officially said City Centre is cancelled (it's current status is actually "approved"), but we haven't heard anything in almost a year, so it unfortunately seems it likely won't happen. Then again, most of us had given up on Tremont, and then it was revived out of nowhere.

I hope it doesn't happen.

Nice looking building, bad spot. 

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7 minutes ago, orange87 said:

What's wrong with the location? Hard to be any worse than the bum infested 7-Eleven that's there now.

I just don't think Eola Park needs a giant concrete phallus sticking up out of that corner and encroaching on what is now a mostly green, natural space

Plus, I don't want to see those old buildings get demolished to make way for it. I like the small intimate scale of that corner just the way it is. The 7 Eleven and it's bums don't bother me.

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1 minute ago, JFW657 said:

I just don't think Eola Park needs a giant concrete phallus sticking up out of that corner and encroaching on what is now a mostly green, natural space

Plus, I don't want to see those old buildings get demolished to make way for it. I like the small intimate scale of that corner just the way it is. The 7 Eleven and it's bums don't bother me.

I want it to be built, but I agree with you about how much it encroaches on the grass/green area. The old building called City Centre that's currently there and the old house next to it are nice. I do hate the building that the 7-Eleven is in now though.

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City Centre has the potential to be a total disaster in a high profile location. The faux-pre war second empire design could come across looking really cheap and tacky because I doubt they would use limestone facades and an appropriate level of ornamental flurishes that give these buildings their charm.

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25 minutes ago, orange87 said:

I want it to be built, but I agree with you about how much it encroaches on the grass/green area. The old building called City Centre that's currently there and the old house next to it are nice. I do hate the building that the 7-Eleven is in now though.

I'd love to have seen it built where Modera is going up.

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