Comments on: Stunning Zinc-Skinned Office Wins 2010 ZeroFootprint Award

By: bluescout

bluescout — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:27:40 +0000

Painting the outside is a brilliant idea. It should be done. It would lift the energy. Just looking a t a lot of dull sterile minimalist buildings is very depressing…note when one is where there is color and charm people feel peppy and it draws custom.

By: Shropshire Architect

Shropshire Architect — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:45:57 +0000

I like the contrast of simple outside with the inside having more detail and finishes and to me it does not look like an office building.

By: Nam Dernor

Nam Dernor — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:03:02 +0000

…and why would you want a warehouse to look like a warehouse just because it’s a warehouse- shouldn’t we invest money at zero return just to make it look like something it’s not? Why miss another chance to deny that we have industry and commerce in our midst, driving our economy? Why succumb to that old form-follows-function trope?

By: kristiantheconqueror

kristiantheconqueror — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:17:23 +0000

You guys have a really bad habit of excessively fawning over the smallest thing. In this case, the building here is aesthetically appealing on the inside (if you’re into minimalism) and the architects deserve kudos for getting this one up to a LEED gold certification (probably no easy task with such an old building) BUT this building is not stunning. Look at the exterior; it looks like a warehouse. Seriously, it looks like a warehouse. This is the general style of building in this country which is synonymous with urban blight and decay. It’s form speaks of millions of corrugated steel sheds across the country built and maintained form no other purpose than storage. I feel that this architectural firm needs to heavily re-think what they’re doing here, and consider a way to make the building more appealing to the eye. My quick and dirty solution? Invite some artists to paint something incredibly huge on the plain facade offered here. It’d at least add visual flair and draw attention away from the unappealing hulking mass of the building and focus it instead on the art on the exterior.