It's a concrete candy bar
It'd be great if it had a bit more character. Terraces, maybe a public skywalk.
These modern buildings are hostile to communities. They look like fortresses.
After we shape a building like that how will it shape us?
It'd be great if it had a bit more character. Terraces, maybe a public skywalk.
These modern buildings are hostile to communities. They look like fortresses.
After we shape a building like that how will it shape us?
If you're going to put in that kind of time and money, try to make something that 50 years from now will be thought of as a culture heritage site
Don't own it? You shouldn't get a say. Imposing restrictions on other people's property led us to today's housing crisis.
I can assure you, people complaining about the shape/size of skyscrapers in their neighbourhoods did not lead us to a SF housing crisis.
Vacancy is at an all time high right now, people are leaving my hometown because of our horrendous government.
To wit:
Any building taller than the tallest building currently in the area is illegitimate because it is "out of character."
Therefore, the tallest existing building was illegitimate on those same grounds.
Therefore, the building that was tallest before the tallest currently-existing building was also illegitimate.
...
Therefore the first building ever to be constructed in San Francisco was obviously illegitimate since it would have been the most out of character with the previous millions of years of no development.
Therefore all development is illegitimate.
Since this is absurd, the proposition should be rejected.
QED.
For a general criterion, I think that double the local median building height would be a good line, though at least 3 stories should always be allowed anywhere with affordability issues.
there's many places with restrictions that have no such problems and many places with problems that have no such restrictions.
The correlation between those two things is in actual material, real world, non theoretical but real, reality is effectively zero
That's such an unattractive sentiment, blergh!
The larger your building, the higher your responsibility to your community. A building doesn't only sit on your lot, you're also inflicting it on your neighbors.
Anyway, large apartment building is fine, but if you make it big, then make sure it doesn't look like dreck.