Development Watch: Hotel Williamsburg
May’s the month the Hotel Williamsburg should be opening its doors to the masses. (The Residencies, the condo building attached to the hotel, began closings in March.) When we stopped by all the scaffolding was gone, finally revealing the entryway. Like the finished product? GMAP
May’s the month the Hotel Williamsburg should be opening its doors to the masses. (The Residencies, the condo building attached to the hotel, began closings in March.) When we stopped by all the scaffolding was gone, finally revealing the entryway. Like the finished product? GMAP
If only HoJo’s could have hung on, they’d be here.
Actually wine lover, I’m qualified, knowledgeable about construction, and make my living reviewing building failures among other things. Definitely a shoddy looking building, and probably an energy pig too.
Any building with EIFS suggests quality is compromised. That material should be illegal, it is not meant to last more than 20 years tops, usually 10 years. That means it needs to be refaced and the building residents would have to apply for permits (which cost 10s of thousands of dollars alone) for scaffolding and then pay for the refacing of the building. I am in this situation right now, so I know my facts.
I think of Ikea every time I pass these buildings. The one on the right in particular, which looks like an Expedit shelving unit covered in a “walnut effect” veneer.
you guys are not qualified to look at something and say it’s shoddy quality. stop the nonsense.
looks great aesthetic wise. i won’t comment on the quality because I HAVE NO IDEA! and neither do you.
sure that those closings may just may have checked it out. duh.
OMG its ORANGE and has GLASS!!
but seriously – what’s with the suburban house style garage door? i freakin hate those things.
All of the EIFS buildings are awful. I’ve experienced this in Williamsburg first hand. The only buildings to buy into would be 80 and 58 Metropolitan and Edge if you want the skyscraper effect.
> I pass these hideous buildings almost everyday.
If you think these are hideous, how do you manage to walk through Williamsburg without doubling over in aesthetic agony?
Looks like crap to me.