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Nice building. However -- I've watched renderings like these come out for years, as well as the final results (in person). Thing is, glass, and especially tinte
by thesagan 14y ago
Nice building. However -- I've watched renderings like these come out for years, as well as the final results (in person). Thing is, glass, and especially tinted or "specially treated" glass meant for display purposes, are very very hard to render beforehand. Actually, it's very difficult to tell how the glass actually looks until it starts coming out of the factory to be hung up.
My fear with tinted glass is that it often appears darker than intended. A lot of the tinted glass in NYC, although colorful enough up-close, becomes dulled a mile or more away.
But we'll have to see how this one turns out. Each glass curtain wall is different. Unique, like a snowflakes (if that's even true).
- brudgers 14y agoIn 1991, the first time something I drew was fabricated (20 kips of prestressed double tee for a parking structure), I thought, "So that's what it really looks like." I still have the same sensation today, when exposed to built work. The only difference is that I am aware of the gap between representation on paper and presence while I am designing. The image is not the building. The rendering, like any drawing, is just a communication tool.
- thesagan 14y agoAgreed. Just like renderings I do for website projects, they're communication/brainstorming tools and only that. On a somewhat funnier note, every time a new massing model or rough sketch of a new building is released in NYC (for example the early World Trade Center massing models created back in '02 or '03) there's always a small, but hysteric faction of architecture enthusiasts crying out about the bad design, not realizing what they're even looking at.