Comments on: Weekly Poll: $500K Paint Job on the East Dublin BART Station Parking Garage

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The garage looks much better with the paint Job but still ugly on the South side facing the freeway with the slanted/off centered looking facade. On the North side it looks find.

Ugly is the Dublin Honda building right at one of our major gateways. A mouse trap looking shoebox with an opening on the end for the rodents to enter. The building could have used a bit more imagination than the one that we got.

How about the Chacon Dental building next to Patio and More, how did that structure get approved? It does not fit the Cinder Block light industrial building surrounding it, also the scale of the building looks out of place compared to its' neighbors. Stucco and Red Tile Roof does not fit that area.

The multi color bazaar that is the Willow Shopping Center (San Ramon Village) at Alcosta and San Ramon Road. Color happy that made the small structure look busy, circus like, thrifty looking.

By: Around Dublin

Around Dublin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Anonymous – yes, I did see this article. I was very disappointed w/ John King’s article. Mr. King reminds me of “The Fountainhead” character Ellsworth Toohey. Here’s the Wikipedia summary of the character:

Ellsworth Toohey, who writes a popular architectural column, is Roark’s antagonist. Toohey is an unabashed collectivist and Rand’s personification of evil (when speaking freely, he explicitly compares himself to Goethe’s Mephisto, who tempted Faust to destruction). He falsely styles himself as representative of the will of the masses.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi John,
Have you seen this article on San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/15/MNOA11F1NC.DTL)? I happen to love our new BART garage, and I have serious doubt about John King’s journalistic integrity. He seems to be promoting his friend Mr. Steve Weindel’s firm at Dublin’s expense. All the criticisms King directed toward our garage can easily be applied to Weindel’s work. Is it really important for a garage to “shimmer” at night? Wouldn’t that be just as “distracting” and “brake-screeching?” Perhaps Weindel is still bitter from the fact that his firm did not get to design Dublin’s garage.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

$500k for a paint job seems to be very expensive. The could have used that money for landscaping or improvements to the station itself.

By: John M. Zukoski

John M. Zukoski — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Anonymous #1 – Yes, Dublin’s aesthetic standards are indeed stringent, and when they agreed to have the East Dublin BART station parking garage built, they believed in the artist’s rendition of what the garage exterior would look like. It is BART who did not act in good faith, so it is a credit to our City Council and Staff who succeeded in getting BART to fulfill their end of the deal.

Thx, John Z.