Comments on: living large with a small footprint (a.k.a. having it both ways) http://hugeasscity.com/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/ > so much wonderful packaged in such a mess Tue, 08 May 2012 11:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dan bertolet http://hugeasscity.com/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-13 dan bertolet Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:35:40 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/#comment-13 Go to the web site linked in the post to see the green features, click on "building" and then "green." Good stuff to do but nothing very challenging and definitely nothing that would threaten the bottom line. The paragraph right above the list of "thoughtful green features" is pretty entertaining: "Here, a seamless dialect is created between urban buzz and bucolic serenity... a life of luxury informed by nature..." etc. Go to the web site linked in the post to see the green features, click on “building” and then “green.” Good stuff to do but nothing very challenging and definitely nothing that would threaten the bottom line. The paragraph right above the list of “thoughtful green features” is pretty entertaining: “Here, a seamless dialect is created between urban buzz and bucolic serenity… a life of luxury informed by nature…” etc.

]]> By: Phil McCrackin http://hugeasscity.com/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Phil McCrackin Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:30:24 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/#comment-12 Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

]]> By: neil gitkind http://hugeasscity.com/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-11 neil gitkind Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:43:35 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/#comment-11 What "green features"?? What “green features”??

]]> By: Brian Kenny http://hugeasscity.com/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Brian Kenny Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:06:37 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/#comment-10 Not that someone shouldn't be the Lorax for old man bars, but isn't this the project on the lot next to the Bon Marche/Macy's parking garage? It's been vacant (except for cars) for at least a decade, as long as I've been here. So, while empty space in a city is needed, especially in park-poor downtown Seattle, this lot on the Pine street corridor was begging for something to happen. Yet I do wish it was something else, greenwashed or otherwise. I did some sketches in my secret architect dreamer notebook many years ago that I think would have been better than this gazillion-dollar-a-foot harmonized luxury. Not that someone shouldn’t be the Lorax for old man bars, but isn’t this the project on the lot next to the Bon Marche/Macy’s parking garage? It’s been vacant (except for cars) for at least a decade, as long as I’ve been here.

So, while empty space in a city is needed, especially in park-poor downtown Seattle, this lot on the Pine street corridor was begging for something to happen. Yet I do wish it was something else, greenwashed or otherwise. I did some sketches in my secret architect dreamer notebook many years ago that I think would have been better than this gazillion-dollar-a-foot harmonized luxury.

]]> By: kkurmudgeon http://hugeasscity.com/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-9 kkurmudgeon Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:27:21 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2007/11/22/living-large-with-a-small-footprint-having-it-both-ways/#comment-9 How many old man bars were torn down for this atrocity? I'm sure all those execs are offsetting their carbon-o-trocities. No guilt as long as you can afford the tithe. How many old man bars were torn down for this atrocity? I’m sure all those execs are offsetting their carbon-o-trocities. No guilt as long as you can afford the tithe.

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