Encore Tower | 138m | 43s | Westrich Pacific | Dub Architects

What do you think of this project?

  • I like it a lot

    Votes: 44 75.9%

  • I like it

    Votes: 13 22.4%

  • I neither like nor dislike it

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • I dislike it

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I dislike it a lot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    58
Nice day to raise some towers eh

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Weird , I would have thought it was grandfathered in regardless? Hmmm...
Thanks for the pic's !
 
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@Kaizen Value engineering then? Either way, not exactly what I was expecting from the renders...

Edit: I guess going back and looking at the closer-up renders, it's not that far off, they just took some liberties smoothing out the texture making it look more like curtainwall.

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Which direction is that wall facing?

The wall facing north certainly looks curtain in most of the renders, but I'm not so sure of the other walls.
 
@Daveography -- I have to think that curtainwalls are very cost effective (my experience anyway) and the new systems -- designed to the most current energy codes -- are through-the-roof R-value-wise. Oblique panels get R value ratings of 24 or better; and triple-glazed units are higher than 10 (especially with partial vacuums and argon gas filling). The color selection used to be fairly minimal, but today the rainbow is jealous -- and glazing panels can be color-tuned to solid panels for a very uniform appearance. Sorry to say, I am a big fan of spandrel panels - they have come a long way from the days of Oxford towers.
 
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