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Sure they are nice, but they all look the same in that area and can be viewed as "blah" by others for that reason.
Again, all of this is a matter of preference.
To bring it back to Syracuse, the key is in regards to other aspects of design such as public transportation options, sidewalk and water infrastructure, building stable housing at a variety of price points and moving investment/development into neighborhoods outside of Downtown/University Hill.
So far the Baltimore aquarium and the Tampa aquarium are two of the most attractive aquariums I've found yet. The Houston, and the Long Beach, California ones are nice too. If I was in charge of the Syracuse aquarium project I'd try to have the surrounding property around the aquarium similar to the aquarium in Long Beach, California.
They have a very similar look because they are virtually identical. They are copy pasted from town to town, always with the same characteristics:
--Concrete ground floor with 4 or five wood floors built on top. This minimizes building cost and meets most community codes and regs in the cheapest way possible. (these are called 5-over-1s in the business)
--They all relentlessly tack on weird, colorful,disorganized facades that are all going to look really dated in a decade. It is much cheaper than building crown details and quality window casements.
-Underneath all the weird facades are just dense, blocky, bland buildings.
The majority taste in architecture is what matters for Syracuse's future. For the simple fact that most people who flock to places like Seattle, Portland,Oregon, Denver, and Nashville and don't find the built environment depressing compared to Syracuse is proof enough that my taste in architecture is much more common than a small minority in Syracuse.
The majority taste in architecture is what matters for Syracuse's future. For the simple fact that most people who flock to places like Seattle, Portland,Oregon, Denver, and Nashville and don't find the built environment depressing compared to Syracuse is proof enough that my taste in architecture is much more common than a small minority in Syracuse.
That isn't what attracts people to those cities though. There are other factors like the economy or perhaps a cultural aspect that brings people to those cities. So, a subjective preference towards certain architecture isn't going to be the thing that brings people to a city.
For Syracuse, it really just needs to infill vacant lots and land, that have potential for development. Meaning, to be the best Syracuse/version of itself it can be and not to copy other cities, per se.
Syracuse actually has nice, older architecture Downtown and in some other neighborhoods. In turn, it could have modern architecture that fits the character of the location within the city it is in. A great example of art Deco architecture: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0509...8192?entry=ttu
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