Apparently people in this area are a highly opinionated bunch. Chris Satullo of the Inquirer has set up a new civic feedback project for himself: sifting through the opinions of this highly opinionated bunch on some of the newer projects in Philadelphia and the region.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/lo...sound_off.html
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This civic-feedback project taught me something: People have a lot of pent-up views about buildings that rise to alter the penthouse view.
Is there something about the Kimmel that triggers uniquely energetic responses? Or do you hold equally simmering opinions about other high-profile projects?
Let's test that question. Below are my capsule reviews of some major projects done around the region over the last decade. Most were built using some public subsidy, making them fair game. Please send me your judgments on any or all, to the e-mail address below.
The Cira Centre: This glittering chunk of quartz next to 30th Street Station is Philadelphia's mood ring. Along with many, I love it. My question for public review is not so much the building, but about those lights of rotating hues that it sports at night. What's your view on them: Yes, no, maybe so?
The Comcast Center: At a citizens' meeting last month, someone snarled: "Can we get this ugly thing torn down?" Others immediately leaped to this tower's defense. So it goes. The nearly completed building is fated to provoke divergent reactions, in part because of how people feel about the corporation that occupies it.
From the west and east, the 975-foot skyscraper is a most elegant icicle. My architect friend Bill Becker raves about the "smart conversation" its lean, perpendicular lines conduct with the chunkier, angled Cira on the other side of the Schuylkill. But I approach the building from Kelly Drive each day, gazing in bemusement at the dark slit high on its north face. It looks like the eyehole in the Dark Prince's armor. What's up with that? Your thoughts?...
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You can all read the rest for yourself.
03-01-2008, 02:05 PM
Tell Chris Satullo what you think of architecture in the area
