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Any suggestions for improving the walk to the train station by having something on these brown panels. Lights or murals or something?
Any suggestions for improving the walk to the train station by having something on these brown panels. Lights or murals or something?
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Anonymous (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
I agree that this building is not an appropriate addition to the city. I'm not sure lighting up the panels would help at all.
It should be retrofitted, with ground level glass-walled retail and office space, and perhaps housing above, if not demolished. Other cities have had great success retrofitting their anti-urban, 1970s buildings and we can too.
Until that can be done, the attractiveness of this walk can be improved by 1) widening the sidewalks, 2) improving street and sidewalk maintenance, 3) installing street trees and landscape buffers, 4) reducing speeds on the street, 5) pedestrian scale lighting.
Anonymous (Guest)
Just to show what a horror this building is...
On a historical note. Allegedly this building was the first commercial condominium in Connecticut. The STD clinic was located in this same building - a lot of people I knew received their death sentences, aka AIDS diagnosis, in this hole - can you imagine? The courtyard used to be kind of okay - the architect turned the building inside out, probably as a reaction to the surrounding area.
Removing a lane of traffic, on either side of this building would help a lot. Replacing the dark panels with something that would indicate what is going on inside the building would help too.
Joanne DeFranco (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
They may not "have to do a thing", but they might want to improve the appearance of their property - I think it's called being neighborly or some kind of archaic idea like caring....
There are all kinds of laws and ordinances governing what one can or cannot do with private property.
Anonymous (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
juli (Registered User)
it really has always felt like i was walking past a concrete bunker. i just think that despite that crazy idea of 'love thy neighbor' that we might hope for, the knights might just prefer to be as closed off from the city as possible.
it'd be a nice surprise if they considered how much a part they play in a cold, harsh, unwelcoming introduction to the city or lack of connection to the community.
Anonymous (Guest)
Love the photo of the post-nuclear holocaust downtown - the only thing left - the roaches and that building...
I'm wondering if any brutalist building has had a successful "happy" makeover? What would it look like? Maybe some sort of camouflage paint job, like this:
http://tiny.cc/cfa6z
or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
hello city plan (Guest)
abgoode (Registered User)
it hurts to look at it (Guest)
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