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you_give_me_coupon t1_jdb7u75 wrote

I have no idea if you're being sarcastic or not, but that building is repulsive at a visceral level. Architecture like that is designed to make people feel alienated, uncomfortable, and adrift. Inshallah, it will not be built.

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canadacorriendo785 t1_jdbaoj9 wrote

Dude right now it's an ugly 1950s one story building that's the most out of place building in downtown and has a negative impact on the overall feeling of enclosure and sense of place. One modern building in the entire town is not a bad thing.

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sad0panda t1_jdcc9i3 wrote

I feel like it would match the coop building a little bit. Doesn't feel out of place to me at all.

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gkern86 t1_jdcdb8r wrote

Right ? It's been a few years since I've been down there but I thought it was in line with the co-op. And like others have said, definitely an improvement over the shit heap there currently

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you_give_me_coupon t1_jdcw9n5 wrote

> Dude right now it's an ugly 1950s one story building that's the most out of place building in downtown and has a negative impact on the overall feeling of enclosure and sense of place.

Yes, the existing building is very bad. That doesn't mean it should be replaced with something differently hideous. Why set the bar so low?

> One modern building in the entire town is not a bad thing.

There are already quite a few monstrosities: the library, the people's bank building, the coop. I fear this building will add one more bleak, unadorned 5-over-1 turd made out of petroleum glues to the list.

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canadacorriendo785 t1_jdef5g5 wrote

Entire neighborhoods that look like this like the Seaport District in Boston are a monstrosity and hostile to human use. Having some variety in architectural style in the Downtown on the other hand is not a bad thing at all.

The library and the bank building are hardly modern by the standards of anywhere outside of Vermont and the biggest issue with the Coop is the parking lot not the style of the building itself.

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you_give_me_coupon t1_jdfkia2 wrote

> Entire neighborhoods that look like this like the Seaport District in Boston are a monstrosity and hostile to human use. Having some variety in architectural style in the Downtown on the other hand is not a bad thing at all.

I agree about the Boston seaport. But every new modernist building makes the area around it worse. Every one of them should be opposed.

> The library and the bank building are hardly modern by the standards of anywhere outside of Vermont

They're not new, but their aesthetic style - bleak, flat, harsh - is absolutely modern. They all fall in the same aesthetic category as the proposed BMAC turd.

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captainogbleedmore t1_jdcbjye wrote

Right? It would also get rid of the graffiti and hangout spots below them and replace the blight with a boardwalk if I remember the announcement correctly. Much better than the present panhandling area.

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