It looks as though the facade is going up on what’s left of the original TCC campus buildings, and thanks to Fort Worth Architecture Forum member monee9696 we now have a photo, taken from The Tower. I have to say that after all the TCC controversy, and after all the vague renderings, to see that the facade appears to consist mainly of jagged concrete paneling is extremely disappointing. It looks like a piece of ’70s architecture. Doubly depressing that the blank paneling is also used on the street level. Perhaps it will look better in the final product, but I’m not particularly hopeful.
And my distaste for modern architecture grows ever stronger…
Hold the phone…are there not going to be any windows?
Travis,
Well, the old renderings were pretty vague. There will be *some* windows, but as to their exact positioning and size, I’m not sure that’s ever been completely revealed. The windows are going to make or break this for me - between “passable” and “bad.” If the ground floor is mostly glass instead of concrete, and the rest of the building has some fairly extensive glass, it might work better.
Wow, that’s kinda ugly. They spent how much for this concrete box?
Wow, this could be really bad.