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isaidso said:
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Build what your renderings promise. It's dishonest and deceitful to produce images that aren't representative. It's been standard practice for so long a lot people deem it acceptable. It is not. Hiding behind a mountain of legal mumbo jumbo (few will understand) doesn't make it acceptable either. It just means they've protected themselves from being sued.

If car companies did this, people would be up in arms.
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Car companies release wacky concept renders and dummy models all the time that never made it to production or are severely watered down.
 
...I think that's a weird comparison to make.
 
Undead said:
Car companies release wacky concept renders and dummy models all the time that never made it to production or are severely watered down.
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A concept car is never intended to be a production model. It merely informs a corporate stylistic direction for the future. A rendering, by contrast, is supposed to accurately illustrate what a production building will look like and it's just shitty practice that so many hide behind images they know they can't or won't work to manifest. But nobody cares, so we get this:

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It's all a smoke-and-mirrors grift.
 
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I think there's a difference of expecting something to look like what is presented in a rendering, to which one should never do...and holding the developer to what they presented in a rendering, to which is perfectly reasonable criticism. Particular when it comes to colour, materials and styles. Conversely, there is no rendering that would ever accurately portray what will eventually be built. But at the same, we should still call out when the what is being built starts to deviate from the rendered concept, as that determines whether the developer is acting in bad faith here, IMO.
 
Okays Madison, you have me intrigued. But I want to see more to give thumbs up here...especially after all that awful cheap stuff you ended up slapping on Nobu. Once burned...
 
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Car companies release wacky concept renders and dummy models all the time that never made it to production or are severely watered down.
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They don't put concept cars in their car showroom. We know full well regular people (customers) would assume that's what they're buying. It wouldn't be acceptable in a car show room and it shouldn't be acceptable in a condo show room. Only development industry people and people on sites like this will know it's not real. People are just used to status quo, normalized the practice, but it's incredibly dishonest. Developers know full well 99% of people walking into a condo showroom won't know it's a 'concept'.
 
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