02-19-2021, 12:17 PM
(02-19-2021, 11:47 AM)ac3r Wrote: MartinSimmons, Edge, Walter Fedy etc do some good work here so we definitely have talent in the region. It's just that they only do high quality work. A firm like SRM gets hired to do dozens of proposals/developments and we end up seeing this flood of low quality buildings going up. They are almost single handedly responsible for the student developments that we're now stuck with. Unsurprisingly, they are the ones who designed DTK.Couldn't agree more, I like all of those firms, I would add ABA into that conversation of talented architects. Unfortunately the architecture firm can only do as good of a job as the developer wants. Its hard to know if SRM is just firm filled with the lower end of the talent poo that is cheap enough that developers flock to when they want to build cheap building or if SRM is restricted by the developer value engineering the design down to what we are seeing at DTK.
Driving by DTK today, I do think if they had just gone with the black mullion and spandrel you can see in the middle units this building would look a little bit better. The grey mullions and spandrel on the corners really look so cheap.