As do I, we often walk by this building on a weekly basis and rediscover new meaning to this one! it's beautiful..I would want my office in there!

I don't believe that "old" automatically equates with "beautiful." There were some really ugly old buildings built, and in my opinion this is one of them. They tore out a beautiful craftsman in another project and "re"built it; the original craftsman should have stayed there (sans the rest of that project), but in this case, the brick structure should have been allowed to die a well-deserved death, and the bricks allowed to arise, phoenix-wise, in a far better-looking structure. The one arising from the brick perimeter is a run-of-the-mill contemporary "urban" design... looks OK for now, but time will be the test of beauty.

This building is visually jarring when you come up on it. There is no place to rest your eye when looking at the entire corner. I do like it a bit, don't think it's atrocious as the rest of the Onions, but I get a little dizzy taking it in. My wallet cringes with respect to the rents.

We,the Mrs, the dog, and me walk past this building most Sundays and always rediscover it. It is a mixture of modern industrial and pre-modern industrial and they reflect each well. That the lighter modern part of the building emerges from the old brick remind me of a bird emerging from its egg, only without all the messy membrane and feathers. In drawing from both new and old this building the architects created a complex structure one I find exciting to see and envious of those who may live or work within. lewKLEIN

I totally agree with the nominator. When I first saw this while walking downtown, I said to myself: "Holy Moley! What a terrible thing to do to a nice old brick structure." And the name - is it offices? Condos? In the middle image, the doors look like a huge fire station. And - could it be worse? - it's even on a corner lot!

I always thought that this is one of the better architectural solutions for adding new to an existing historic fabric. The new complements the existing without dominating or imitating it. It is a great disappointment to find it listed among the Onions!

I always thought that this was one of the better architectural solutions, for adding new on to existing historic fabric and was very disappointed to find it listed among the Onions!

I agree with the preceeding assessment. What a stinker! Although the project met the Secretary of the Interior's Standard #9 for Rehabilitation concerning new additions by "differentiating" itself from historic fabric, it's unclear how it was determined to be "compatible" with the historic building. The new addition looks like it was dropped on the older one with little thought given to materials, color, texture, rhythm or scale. It looked bad on paper and hasn't improved with construction. This just goes to prove that meeting minimum standards can't guarantee good design and that design review can't help a failed concept.