“Louvers won’t work, they reflect light too,” he wrote in June in a blog comment on dallasnews, “and retrofitting on a 42 story building has never been tried and the makers say they would rip off in high winds prevalent in Dallas.”
An honest opinion, except that there is no such Barry Schwarz.
This post and others proved to be the work of Mike Snyder, long a fixture in the city and now a public relations executive who had been hired by the tower’s outside law firm.
— nytimes.com
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Does this mean to suggest that people on the internet write things that... aren't true?
I've been following this controversy for awhile but just haven't felt up to posting it here. The developer's proposal is to change the roof of Piano's building. The roof essentially is the defining feature of the entire design of the building, and the developer just wants to change it so their bland condo tower can remain as is (of course changing the roof won't save the park landscape from being burnt to a crisp, but whatevs, plants).
It's a delightfully sordid story all around, involving tax dollars and pension funds and egos and good vs. crappy design. Though as much as I'm enjoying the soap opera, I do legitimately fear that the Nasher/Piano will ultimately lose. let's hope Texas tries to do *something* right.
That's interesting, Donna. I hadn't heard of this case before (this article seems a rather odd introduction to it), but it sounds like a battle brewing, if not fully steeped.
I know a few folks who worked on the condo building, and wasn't aware of the glazing and reflection issue...
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