I don't know at what point in the redevelopment process where the impact of the architecture, its size form and style is considered, and how recommendations as to these and other features are made within the whole village's development process.

I would think that fairly early when the type of use and the manner in which it is to be situated on the site, which is at its early proposal stage, would be the time to consider architecture as well as its relationship to the site and surrounding features.

If I were running the show and I don't know who really is, here at the very earliest stage of the machine's operation is where I would be entering into urban design discussions and considerations. These concerns should not be left for the last stages when the Design Review Board gets involved, which generally could be too late.

Taking the Sunrise Development as the subject in question, one of the first things we should be interested in would be how the development would take the river setting into consideration and how the natural setting and the building would be integrated, rather than the questions of how a non-site related, any-place designed building would be set down onto this particularly site and where on the site it is to be situated.

Whether the building is completely seen from along the river level or partially seen or not seen at all is not necessarily a tried and tested criteria or community desideratum.

The development would need to be judged as to how it takes advantage of the natural site and how it integrates those features into the design. This would take us into an area of what some architects have recently begun to refer to as “biophilic” architecture, meaning a closer relationship to natural setting.

The presently proposed building could probably be placed anywhere and not be suitable to its surroundings on any site. It would remain ugly even to the uninitiated, as it has not been designed with any artistic consideration and witjhout giving any environmental or locational values to this site.

I don't believe that these concerns or discussions come too late. What's the rush? We could start all over again with nothing to lose. We could only gain from a new start that took these points into consideration.

Even the simplest considerations as to the incorporation of solar energy generation have not be considered. Let's take a new look.

Please read, “glorifying the mundane,”  a posting, previous to this one.