A story appeared in the newspaper this week explaining that vinyl siding on a West Federal Street building needed to be removed because it did not meet a design review standard.
This is how the exterior of the building looked in June of 2011.(http://mahoningvalley.info/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=10872.0;attach=5715;image)
Workers were applying a new exterior today.
See photo below.
It looks just about the same as it did in June of 2011.
It's now Hardie Board--a fiber cement product--instead of vinyl. What I haven't seen yet, (not because they aren't done, but because I haven't looked) is how they finished the arched-top windows.
IMO, the design review committee made a mistake when they approved the design. (I saw a copy of the original sketch) But, they DID approve the design. So, we have to live with it.
Why isn't the Hardie board taken all the way to the roof? If the finished product looks like the photo it looks like ... well it looks stupid.
Quote from: Towntalk on April 27, 2012, 08:57:19 AM
Why isn't the Hardie board taken all the way to the roof? If the finished product looks like the photo it looks like ... well it looks stupid.
I guess, because that's the original terracotta.