I guess a 4 story dormitory building for the STLCOP or School of Nursing, with a few basic ground floor retail bays to serve both medical campus workers and students, with a small plaza with outdoor seating on the western more triangular portion of the lot (currently grass), basically a small campus extension/outpost directly across Taylor that would unite the School of Nursing and STLCOP in a more coherent, contiguous and inviting manner, just makes too much sense and/or can’t compete with the value add of the all mighty surface lot.imran wrote:Exciting new parking lot taking shape where a building once stood
Next to a ....... Parking Garage
Next to a ........Transit hub
Who deserves the medal for this fantastic move?
NIH awards $7.6M to create cancer research center at Wash U
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Washington University has received a $7.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a research center focused on cancer treatment among disadvantaged rural and urban populations in Missouri and Illinois.
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Queeny tower interior demo has started. Last workers moved out last month, building demo itself will start in the spring and finish by end of 2020 to clear way for a new tower that is in design
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Will the new tower be as large or tall? Do you know anything about the design specs?
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^ that’s been the design since last year. Could be what they move forward with or it could be a little different but it’s going to be 15 stories/200feet
Hopefully, they go with this design. The two new hospitals on the Northend of the campus look nice.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Dec 21, 2019^ that’s been the design since last year. Could be what they move forward with or it could be a little different but it’s going to be 15 stories/200feet
This is pretty much a clone of Parkview Tower / Siteman Cancer Center, in other words a south bookend to the campus along Kingshighway. So I doubt it is going to vary much from that rendering.
Other than the sloping floors, the Parkview Tower turned out rather nicely. The lounge bubbles with floor to ceiling glass are a nice touch.
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Hopefully there's a restaurant in there to replace the one in Queeny Tower - I'm still kicking myself at never having had the chance to eat there. Views must be incredible.
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The views from the skybridge are/were first rate. I was really meaning to get in there and take some pictures before it closed. Wasn't aware it was scheduled for demo quite yet. Thought they'd taken a breather on the campus plan. Oh well.
I won’t chain myself to the building, but I do have a soft spot for the Queeny Tower. Maybe it’s because I was “barn at Barnes”, or maybe because I have fond memories of eating lunch at the cafe on the top floor, looking out onto Forest Park (yes, the views were incredible). I will miss this building- it definitely makes an impact on the northbound Kingshighway approach into the CWE. I just hope its replacement is at least equal in height.
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^I can't imagine they're going to going to go any smaller. The renderings look slightly taller. Just without the tantalizing gap between buildings.
^ Yep, like urbanitas said this would make a perfect bookend considering how the north end turned out. I would expect what we see in that rendering is going to be pretty close to what gets built. Looks to be around 15 or so stories and quite a bit larger than Queeny, should make a big impact on the CWE skyline, especially from 40 with that glass rotunda thing or whatever you'd want to call it.
I wonder how many of these new buildings have been engineered for the addition of more floors in the future.
I just recently discovered that the Barnes-Jewish Pavilion building is actually two separate buildings built independently and opened several years apart - East first in 1972, then West in 1979.
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Notice just behind Queeny Tower the previous Children's Hospital building (Spoehrer Tower), which is now occupied by the Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center (the current Children's Hospital was built just a half block north and opened in 1984)
Notice just behind Queeny Tower the previous Children's Hospital building (Spoehrer Tower), which is now occupied by the Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center (the current Children's Hospital was built just a half block north and opened in 1984)
Looks like they then added 3 or 4 floors spanning across the new and old (eastern) building. What a crazy project.
Yep...wabash wrote: ↑Dec 24, 2019Looks like they then added 3 or 4 floors spanning across the new and old (eastern) building. What a crazy project.
Gap between which buildings? The new Queeny Tower and the Plaza (previously known as Pavilion) building to the east, or the new Queeny Tower and the Knight Trauma Center to the north?symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Dec 23, 2019^I can't imagine they're going to going to go any smaller. The renderings look slightly taller. Just without the tantalizing gap between buildings.
The rendering is looking at it from a deceptive angle - it's possible there will still be a gap between new Queeny and Plaza, but it just won't be visible unless you're further south on Kingshighway.
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Between Queeny and the Barnes Pavilion. I'm particularly fond of that skybridge and the views from it. A friend showed it to me way back when he worked there as an orderly, and then I got more familiar with it when I was there way too much for . . . reasons. You may well be right that there will still be a break. But making the floors line up and spanning across continuously might make more sense. And even if there is a bridge it will be shorter, since the new tower is so much bulkier.DTGstl314 wrote: ↑Dec 24, 2019Gap between which buildings? The new Queeny Tower and the Plaza (previously known as Pavilion) building to the east, or the new Queeny Tower and the Knight Trauma Center to the north?symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Dec 23, 2019^I can't imagine they're going to going to go any smaller. The renderings look slightly taller. Just without the tantalizing gap between buildings.
The rendering is looking at it from a deceptive angle - it's possible there will still be a gap between new Queeny and Plaza, but it just won't be visible unless you're further south on Kingshighway.
Anyway, don't mind me. Just reminiscing. Happy to see Barnes succeed, even if that means losing a favored spot. (Won't be the first.)
It sounds like we might be getting a new design from the “bookend” concept that was posted previously.
The above article references “pre-design” consultation by McCarthy with CannonDesign, among others.
That earlier rendering was probably part of HOK’s overall plan/concept. HOK and Jacobs Engineering were sued by BJC for the sloping floors in the Parkview Tower. So, now that HOK is out of the picture BJC and their newly selected team are probably going back to the drawing board.
The above article references “pre-design” consultation by McCarthy with CannonDesign, among others.
That earlier rendering was probably part of HOK’s overall plan/concept. HOK and Jacobs Engineering were sued by BJC for the sloping floors in the Parkview Tower. So, now that HOK is out of the picture BJC and their newly selected team are probably going back to the drawing board.