Another Bricktown Project
In a story earlier this week I referred to a plan by Allen Contracting to turn an old warehouse in Bricktown into their corporate offices. Sadly, I was unable to convince the architects and their client to provide a rendering that day, so all I could do was provide a photo of the architects showing their drawings to the Bricktown Urban Design Committee. Now, without further delay, is the proposed rendering. After listening to the architects and the committee, there will likely be changes, especially in regard to the chimneys and other ”Victorian” detailing.
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Good on the victorian detail crap. I never ceased to be amazed at how ignorant people in the building trades can be.
Andrew – Are you saying that Allen Contracting is ignorant, or the architect? Allen works on ODOT/City heavy construction projects (one of the primary I-40 Crosstown contractors, working on Memorial/US-77 interchange, etc.), so one shouldn’t expect them to know all about architectural detailing…
A project is a complication of all parties. The architect interpreting what the client wants to come up with a project. There is ignorance on the part of both the client and architect, but it is hard to tell who proposed the stupid chimneys…most likey Allen did. You don’t have to be an architect to know better than that.
I agree with the other posters. It’s probably ignorance on the client and architect’s behalf. When is this cheap add-on crap going to stop, if ever? Green metal roofs, chimneys? Why can’t we have a nice, clean urban renovation without adding crap to it? I’m all for north Bricktown getting some much needed remodels and development moving north to fill in the gap between there and Deep Deuce, but we have to have better standards than this.
Some of the detailing up top is a little out of control. Is the addition primarily stucco? If it was steel and glass with a little less flair and black metal roof(or something tasteful besides green), I could live with that. Maybe even a copper roof would be cool, which would eventually turn a rustic green and look cool with the old brick.
Overall it’s actually one of the better looking projects probably ever proposed, imo.
Steve – why couldn’t the Bricktown Urban Design Committee give you the renderings? At what point do they become public documents?