Hah. I hope so, but it looks like metal to me based on the distorted reflection it's creating. It's very randomized where something glass would be a heck of a lot smoother. And if it was some sort of glass I don't think it would be mounted like that, it would surely require something other than galvanized steel studs. Maybe they're using some new/obscure architectural material I don't know but I can't imagine...this was ABA and HIP and they sadly didn't put enough money into what could have been an amazing project.
The funny thing is that nothing about this matches anything else. Like, the initial idea was to blend historic industrial buildings with a new development. The architects had this idea to mix that with a contemporary set of towers, which had the parking podium wrapped in some kind of mesh metal grille. While we would have been able to tell it was just parking behind it, it would have looked okay. The developer actually forced the architectural team to redo it in order to save money, so they were forced to install these awful monochrome fake brick precast panels instead with a weird ass stripe pattern for some reason. I don't know if they realized everyone hates it and that it was a total eyesore and that made them try to "fix" it with this death ray nonsense or not, but I would imagine so. Except I am assuming the architect hired for that (no idea if ABA Architects was behind this or not) was again told they have to do it with X amount of dollars, so they stuck a very inexperienced person on it and told them to use spend as little money as possible.
And this is the result.
Maybe as a meme we could keep complaining and see how much more damage they can do? Heh. Maybe all it needs are some strips of LED lights that use colours that are entirely unrelated to the rest of the building aesthetic like SRM and IN8 did with Duke Tower after everyone said their Minecraft wool podium was equally as terrible. Could get some flashing neon greens and pinks, perhaps.
The funny thing is that nothing about this matches anything else. Like, the initial idea was to blend historic industrial buildings with a new development. The architects had this idea to mix that with a contemporary set of towers, which had the parking podium wrapped in some kind of mesh metal grille. While we would have been able to tell it was just parking behind it, it would have looked okay. The developer actually forced the architectural team to redo it in order to save money, so they were forced to install these awful monochrome fake brick precast panels instead with a weird ass stripe pattern for some reason. I don't know if they realized everyone hates it and that it was a total eyesore and that made them try to "fix" it with this death ray nonsense or not, but I would imagine so. Except I am assuming the architect hired for that (no idea if ABA Architects was behind this or not) was again told they have to do it with X amount of dollars, so they stuck a very inexperienced person on it and told them to use spend as little money as possible.
And this is the result.
Maybe as a meme we could keep complaining and see how much more damage they can do? Heh. Maybe all it needs are some strips of LED lights that use colours that are entirely unrelated to the rest of the building aesthetic like SRM and IN8 did with Duke Tower after everyone said their Minecraft wool podium was equally as terrible. Could get some flashing neon greens and pinks, perhaps.