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I don't mind the brick facade, nor the black facade, but I don't think they go all that well together.
I guess we'll have to wait to see the final product, how they're tied together.
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The painted-over brick looks rather decent. I think they've salvaged what had been quite the mess.
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10-06-2018, 09:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2018, 09:45 PM by panamaniac.)
The mystery of the new black cladding solved. Is it possible, however, that DTK is starting to overdo the grey thing?
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WOW. I really like what they've done with this. Very nice improvement.
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I think the grey works very nicely overall and there's a lot of reasons it probably needed the new layer, but I love the yellow brick buildings scattered throughout the city, and this one was particularly nice because it was a bit mottled with reds. Even though I'm raising it I don't want to overstate the loss, it's quite minor and well worth it.
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Is the brick just painted?
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I haven't looked closely, but from across the street it strongly resembles a layer of paint. It's definitely not plaster, the bricks are visible underneath and there was no point where they plastered it all with the fake grout lines taped in. The workers were applying it with roller brushes of some sort.
It's definitely possible they've stained it, but it really looks like a thick exterior paint.
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Interesting, too bad, the Eatons name was kinda fun.
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Too bad they dropped the Eaton's name, but also, damn that looks good