Beautiful architecture. ^
I am always surprised at how large/dense St. Louis was and yet how lacking it is in that "mid-rise" scale.
I am always surprised at how large/dense St. Louis was and yet how lacking it is in that "mid-rise" scale.
I might add...Laclede's Landing is a wonderful blueprint for downtown scale. While the streets are narrow and some buildings fairly tall, it could really be a showpiece neighborhood if ALL of the surface parking lots are filled in with contemporary residential/offices/retail/NOT-trashy-nightclubs infill.
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Matt Drops The H wrote:The problem, illustrated above, with St. Louis's downtown is an almost wholesale lack of human scale places. I have actually never been to either Cincy or Louisville () but rather am an extensive Skyscraperpage long-distance tourist. It is my impression from the photographs I see on SSP and other sites that these downtowns contain attractive, historic, 2-6 story buildings.
Cincy has tons of buildings like that, right in the heart of its downtown. Lots of great cast iron storefronts and great little buildings that give its downtown a really comfortable feel.
We still have a few - the building that houses Salt of the Earth, for example, and some of the buildings on Olive near Tucker, but there are too many gaps (parking lots) in between them. And of course, the Roberts Brothers want to tear down two more for their hotel.
Matt Drops The H wrote:I might add...Laclede's Landing is a wonderful blueprint for downtown scale. While the streets are narrow and some buildings fairly tall, it could really be a showpiece neighborhood if ALL of the surface parking lots are filled in with contemporary residential/offices/retail/NOT-trashy-nightclubs infill.
Totally. I spent a good chunk of Saturday on the Landing - the first time I had been there in quite a while - and it felt especially empty with the Switzer Building gone, the strip that once housed Mississippi Nights gone, and various other vacant lots throughout the district. And of course, that's not even including the parking lots.