05-30-2017, 11:10 AM
My current concern with the podium design is that those gaps will be very wind-swept. The prevailing winds will be coming in from the west, and forced up past the parking garage and between the towers.
Paradoxically, windsweptness aside, I almost think that these spaces are awkwardly too small. They're too big to be intimate alleys, but not big enough to be public squares. I think I'd prefer that they take each pair of towers and push them closer together, and leave a larger single contiguous space.
I just noticed the tunnels that go through each of the buildings too. I'm not sure the purpose of having a weather-exposed internal corridor when they have all those spaces between the buildings too.
Paradoxically, windsweptness aside, I almost think that these spaces are awkwardly too small. They're too big to be intimate alleys, but not big enough to be public squares. I think I'd prefer that they take each pair of towers and push them closer together, and leave a larger single contiguous space.
I just noticed the tunnels that go through each of the buildings too. I'm not sure the purpose of having a weather-exposed internal corridor when they have all those spaces between the buildings too.