Remarks by Jose L. Gomez
78 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
- Play at 15:31
“I'm a little confused. You came here just for a small wall to cover this equipment, that's it?”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 16:18
“Okay, so give us the whole thing because I'm saying a lot more than what you explained.”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 31:29
“Is there a motion? Yeah, a motion to approve with the comments from the board, from staff.”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 1:14:46
“Yeah, I have a question, Nick, and I, you know, I guess I've never seen what's been going on here, so, you know, you might not be able to answer it, but personally, you know, the look of what you're planning, it's not great, but you guys are saying it's temporary. I'm almost, I'm asking the same question, but... When do you anticipate the approved portion to happen? Or is that going to change and something else is going to come in front of the board at some point?”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 1:16:55
“You're saying, let me understand, so Building Z partially is being built?”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 1:25:21
“I agree with you guys. If you can put something where the vines will grow, I think that will go a long way. I've worked on two parking garages in Miami Beach. One has been a disaster from day one. They've never been able to make it to put the right planting. near City Hall. A well-known architectural firm designed it and we tried many times to fix that and never been successful. So I can tell you I'm not a landscape architect, but I always feel like these things are hit or miss. The other one is on Collins and Fifth. I think that's the one that you mentioned. Yeah. yeah i mean that one's been…”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 1:29:23
“Okay. Which are the recommended? Deactivation of the park is one of them?”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 1:45:53
“Okay. Let me ask you a question. What's the material over the garage door?”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 1:46:03
“Oh, and over the main entrance door and over the windows, the same thing, just stucco? Where you have like the horizontal line? Yeah, the stucco, yeah.”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 2:00:13
“No, no, I think you master the style of what you're doing. You know what you're doing. I think if you chose that style, you've done it pretty well. Thank you. Very well, very well. Beautiful project.”
Architectural Review Board · Jul 2, 2026
- Play at 38:58
“I have my little concerns here, too. Okay. So, you know, you come up with this, you know, amazing, expensive material that you want to use, and then the base of the building is this plastic cladding. That is very, very, it contradicts the value of what you're doing on top. So this is...”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 39:29
“Would like... Oh, it says wood-like. Is that plastic?”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 39:43
“So where is that brown material there at the base of the front facade? Which one is that one here? The bronze. The bronze? The liquid metal bronze. The entire house basically is liquid metal. Oh, okay. Except in the rear.”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 43:39
“That's the point that I'm trying to make. I mean, this is this house. You're trying to make it very, very slick and fluid and so on with this material that you're using. And then probably half the house gets this treatment that if it was me, I mean, I'll stucco the house because, you know, this material is really – Being overused now, you know, you see it, like I said, in Burger Kings, you see it all over the place. And this house, you know, you're making a house that is a special home or a special home in the future. So to me, I don't know if we can recommend to reconsider the material in…”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 47:28
“You know, from my standpoint, It's how that material is going to weather and so on is a risk that you as the architect are putting on the client. So myself, I love to experiment with materials, and this is what you're doing here, I think. It's not very visible, so I'm glad you're bringing it out, but it's something between you and your client in terms of the metallic. However, I'm very opposed, but it's up to you. But you mentioned beauty. One of the words that you used was beauty, and that material, the plastic, I hate to Call it plastic, but it is plastic. At the end of the day, it's really…”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 49:27
“So they're not fixed storefronts? Okay. And the other question I had was in the rear. You showed a stair... a spiral stair to the roof. Is that part of the design?”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 49:58
“I understand that. In my firm, we have done things like this, similar. If you need access, there's many different ways of having access to the mechanical that are very simple. But when I see something that's cultural, it lends me to believe that in the future, there's an intention for the rooftop to be...”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 50:58
“There's a lot of issues with roofs that will be used later on for events and neighbors will complain and it becomes a big issue in a lot of neighborhoods. So, you know, to me, I'm concerned with if there's a future intent to use this roof for something”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 53:12
“In other words, if they want to use the roof, They can put railings. They can do it. So it's not an issue if your client has future intention to use it. They can actually request for the roof to be accessible. It's not a problem. I'm not bringing a problem.”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 1:00:29
“Let's talk about this because, you know, I think we got to leave the detailing up to them. She's taking a big risk. The owner, God knows what he's thinking. I think in our experience, and we've been around a while, that wall, it's going to be very difficult to make it work. You know, the wind, the exterior conditions, you know, that water, typically it should be probably, you're probably intending, what, maybe an eighth inch of water just rippling? Or are you intending washing water or an inch of water?”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 1:01:44
“This house could be an incredible success. Incredible.”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 1:03:18
“Can I ask you a question? Do we have the rights or can we request that certain items be brought back to the board for review to see what is the reality of this fountain? Can we ask for them to resubmit or to submit shop drawings that we can say, yes, this works or not? Or you just want to leave it up to...”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 1:10:02
“I think it's the same thing is what he's saying. They don't have to go further than a shop drawing to present it to us. But I think the feeling is, reality is, we feel that that fountain might not work unless there's some serious engineering done to it. they can also opt out and say, I don't want the fountain. I don't know how strongly you as the architect or the owner feels about the fountain. If you feel that is something that is not that important to the project,”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 1:11:17
“You know, and you brought up a comment that, again, part of all this testing, you have this... cladding this metal paint and so on you have a garage door that corner obviously the rendering doesn't show it uh it could look very different than what you're imagining how everything here is going to be so monolithic and most likely it's not going to be as monolithic as we all would like to think. You have that garage door, you have the door to the house, you have glass. It's sort of a difficult rendering to understand because it's so dark in there.”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026
- Play at 1:12:34
“I think, look, you're venturing into a lot of I want to do and I think I'm imagining and all that. Yeah, one of them. I don't mind accepting this, but I'm telling you, I wish you luck with the success of the house because there's a lot of testing here that you're doing that...”
Architectural Review Board · May 7, 2026