The scaffolding and concrete barriers that once ringed Flair Tower‘s parking deck are now gone, revealing the high-rise’s Erie Street entrance and the retail spaces and fenced-in landscaping planters fronting Erie and Franklin.
Pre-leasing rates for Flair Tower’s 198 apartments ranged from $1,660 for studios to $5,455 for a three-bedroom penthouse as of early November. The development was aiming for a March opening at that time, so we should continue to see activity there in the next few weeks.
My God that is one hideous parking podium.
The way they tried to dress it up reminds one of the kind of fake historicsm you’d see at “Streets of Woodfield”. Shudder….
What, exactly, is the point of that fake brick townhouse? My God we need to wake up from this nightmarish architecture….or should we even dignify this with that word?
Why oh why do they find the need to use precast to imitate brick. It is a shame that the only quasi-reference to the building it is named after is a sorry excuse of a faux-brick segment on the parking podium.
That being said, I think the tower portion came out quite nice. Too bad it is plopped on top of a structure fit for disney land.
I wish they would consider painting it. There is too much white in the area and Silver Tower (down the street) did not turn out silver either. I have hope that the new Parc Kingsbury won’t turn out this bland.
Yikes.
The tower and the podium look so out of place together. I actually am rather fond of the tower by itself – even though it is quite bland – but this parking podium is just downright insulting. I mean, who designed that with a good conscience? It looks like a lego block slap-n’-stick on facade…no words. No words.