Stanley A. Milner Library | ?m | 6s | EPL | Teeple Architects

[kcantor]

All that needs to happen is some of the surfaces to a different colour. This monochrome hulk of a building would be so much better if you highlighted some of the facets.

Sorry, but a poor choice of colour is not what makes this building an opportunity not just lost but squandered and changing it's colour will not change that.

The only think I can think of that wouldn't be half in jest would be something like this (which would be quite fitting for a library) and the vertical ribs can be treated like shelf or book ends:

 

[IanO]

Since it has some interesting bent metal, articulation and is a blank canvas... and given our darkness for 3-4 months of the year... how in the hell have we not done stuff like this?

Building Projections - Double Take Projections

Building Projections BUILDING PROJECTIONS Video Mapping Specialists A building projection may sound simple, but they are a great way to bring any type of surface to life with their amazing colour and show stopping art work. Projection mapping can be used for advertising,

doubletakeprojections.com

 

[positive1]

Time to kill off this thread? At this point it is just a downer. Unlike.

 

[Out of Towner]

Since it has some interesting bent metal, articulation and is a blank canvas... and given our darkness for 3-4 months of the year... how in the hell have we not done stuff like this?

Building Projections - Double Take Projections

Building Projections BUILDING PROJECTIONS Video Mapping Specialists A building projection may sound simple, but they are a great way to bring any type of surface to life with their amazing colour and show stopping art work. Projection mapping can be used for advertising,

doubletakeprojections.com

It looks pretty good but there is a commercial element to projection mapping and it wouldn't be a big surprise if some developers began claiming that to make a project economically viable, a blank canvas for advertising would be necessary. Then there would be a bunch of unsightly buildings with blank facades advertising junk. Would say though that the advertising seen on historic building for Black Cat cigarettes, or Coca-Cola, or Podersky's Furniture adds a lot character to them.

 

[David A]

Time to kill off this thread? At this point it is just a downer. Unlike.

Yes, it is sort of a downer, but we need to hold our feet to the fire and fix our problems. I feel it is positive the discussion has turned to potential improvements.

 

[archited]

It looks pretty good but there is a commercial element to projection mapping and it wouldn't be a big surprise if some developers began claiming that to make a project economically viable, a blank canvas for advertising would be necessary. Then there would be a bunch of unsightly buildings with blank facades advertising junk. Would say though that the advertising seen on historic building for Black Cat cigarettes, or Coca-Cola, or Podersky's Furniture adds a lot character to them.

Precisely, it is a license begging to be abused; plus there are too many windows that would break up the projection. It would be better etched into the zinc facade (with continuous window vinyl graphics so that it becomes and remains an art piece -- I prefer the idea of replicating architectural graphics of past library facades and plants with permanent murals where appropriate. A permanent application would add gravitas.