In a message dated 12/9/2005 10:37:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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Quite frankly, I like the one with the addition on top. It
looks finished,
I don't like flat roofed buildings. I had thought
from the original
posting I got that they wanted to tear the whole
building down and build something else.
Ruth, I believe the nut of the
preservationists indignification is a) any rooftop
addition, like the Goldfinger-variety example pictured and b) the developer's
wish to substantially widen the slit windows. The narrow windows made
sense when the building was a warehouse, but become rather an obstacle when
trying to persuade the stroller-and-Starbucks set to by million
dollar apartments in an area even more remote than
Vermont. A related burr under the developer's saddle is
that the apartments could, otherwise, have very broad views.
Sincerely yours, Portcullis
Q. Barbi-cam