Fort Norfolk Plaza Progress

[cpeakesqr]

Yay! It looks like a prison...

[urbanvb]

tasteless and bland. blech.

[lammius]

The BEST thing about this is that it will be DIRECTLY on the Ft Norfolk waterfront!! It will be a very visible part of the Ft. Norfolk/Atlantic City waterfront skyline! Sigh, I'm gonna go cry now.

[NSUREDD]

It looks as if someone just found some pictures in a magazine and pasted them together. It looks.......... well let's just say I will not keep up with this one.

[PeninsulaKiddo]

Two words jump to mind.

Projectile.

and

Vomit.

On a quasi-relevant side-note, could someone (such as myself) write a letter to the city of Norfolk denouncing this abomination of an excuse for "architecture"? I think somebody should write and strongly urge a city council member or SOMEBODY to reject this hideous and utterly ill-conceived garbage.

[vdogg]

The BEST thing about this is that it will be DIRECTLY on the Ft Norfolk waterfront!! It will be a very visible part of the Ft. Norfolk/Atlantic City waterfront skyline! Sigh, I'm gonna go cry now.

Lol. Yeah, just because it's in "Fort" Norfolk doesn't mean it actually has to look like a fort. Lets just hope we can put the review back in the design review process. I am going to hold off until the end of the State of the City just in case this turns out to not be the most recent rendering. If it is the most recent however, I will definately be writing the city on this and urging them to kill this thing as is currently designed. It's still early enough in the process where enough complaints can probably get them to alter the design somewhat.

[vdogg]

This thing goes up for review on Monday

b. DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY: Ft. Norfolk Plaza

I don't pray much but i'm certainly doing it now.

[vdogg]

Bwahaha! I was hoping if I made it larger it would look better.

[rusthebuss]

I don't think that you can make that look any better without scrapping it all together

[skylinefan]

Is it just me or does the front look alot like the Sheraton Waterside?

[mistermetaj]

Is it just me or does the front look alot like the Sheraton Waterside?

My God you're right. Now we'll have a Sheraton looking monstrosity on the waterfront in downtown and in fort norfolk. I think we all need to stage a protest if construction begins on this thing.

[lil-bear]

Let's just hope that the City sends it back to be redesigned!!!!

[lammius]

I don't think that you can make that look any better without scrapping it all together

Well one improvement would be to place this thing in a suburban office park where you can shroud it with pine trees so that it's hardly seen at all!

[lil-bear]

Well one improvement would be to place this thing in a suburban office park where you can shroud it with pine trees so that it's hardly seen at all!

I'm so glad that we have senses of humor here at UP!!!

[Glassoul]

Let's just hope that the City sends it back to be redesigned!!!!

I'm not sure the city can force a developer to do that, though they can obviously pressure them into making some changes. But yeah, it looks like a prison.

[vdogg]

The rendering seems pretty accurate to me

Fort Norfolk Plaza

[vdogg]

Now everything gets shorter an more along the lines we expect for HR.

Man erdogs. You really hit the nail on the head today.

[wrldcoupe4]

Almost has a highrise prison look to it... what a shame.

[erdogs]

Can they really get away with calling this "Thing" a tower? I think we all should have seen this coming with down market.

[vdogg]

Can they really get away with calling this "Thing" a tower?

No, that's why they call it a plaza now.

[urbanlife]

I was going to say it looked like a big poop stain, but high rise prison works too. Someone really has little taste when it comes to architecture and they are infecting Norfolk!!

[vdogg]

I was going to say it looked like a big poop stain, but high rise prison works too. Someone really has little taste when it comes to architecture and they are infecting Norfolk!!

It's embarrassing. I haven't been able to bring myself to even update the projects listing yet. I just keep holding out hope that the rendering isn't accurate.

[Glassoul]

It's embarrassing. I haven't been able to bring myself to even update the projects listing yet. I just keep holding out hope that the rendering isn't accurate.

At first I thought it looked most like a prison. Now, the more I look at it the more it resembles a Soviet era block building in Eastern Europe to me. I'm not sure which is worse...

[spiker3]

Upscale prison with waterfront views? Lol

[vdogg]

Upscale prison with waterfront views? Lol

Yeah, i'll take that down eventually. I needed to vent though.