Here's another quick update on the Thayer & Spring apartment project at 915 Thayer Avenue in downtown Silver Spring. The main reason I'm posting it, is because they are starting to add the facade elements that will break up the Soviet-apartment-bloc appearance it currently has, and I had just mentioned that design feature in my last report. A teal frame design is the first to go on, and there eventually will be four colored frames llke this, which - on paper, at least - make the structure appear to be four separate buildings, instead of a big wall.
What is the expected lease date on this project. Their sign says this fall but this looks like such a huge undertaking I doubt they'll be able to start leasing this year.
ReplyDeleteAll partners are still saying Q4 2018, which sounds pretty ambitious to me looking at the current status of the project.
DeleteWhy do you keep calling every large apartment or condominium complex "Soviet-style"? You must not travel very much if you think that this type of building exists primarily in the former Soviet Union.
ReplyDeleteDyer previously wrote: "I don't think I've seen anything like it in Montgomery County so far, in terms of the horizontal length."
Somehow you missed the Triangle Towers/Palisades complex right in the Woodmont Triangle? That is 500 feet long compared to this building's 400 feet. The Forum in North Bethesda is also the same length.
10:01: Triangle Towers and the Palisades are 2 separate buildings next to each other. This is one contiguous building, and you usually see such wall-like designs in Soviet bloc countries under Soviet rule. That's why they are called blocs, and this one does straddle the block.
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