Found on Forsyth. Neat!
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^ Nice. I had heard about the efforts to make the 1904 games and their history a little more prominent. Missed these though. Good stuff.
The big set of Olympic Rings at Washington University is pretty cool too.
The big set of Olympic Rings at Washington University is pretty cool too.
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Didn't realize they ran the marathon out in the county. Or in those days, the country. Lol!
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Okay okay, I'm working on it. So . . . sc4mayor and I might have gone out and taken some pictures together. It's going to be a lot of very similar shots, I expect, but from ever so slightly different angles. I can't quite decide between these two:
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I cannot unsee the airplane flying at me out of the grill. It's . . . vicious! Buick's Beautiful Murder Machine.
I cannot unsee the airplane flying at me out of the grill. It's . . . vicious! Buick's Beautiful Murder Machine.
^ We sure did. Had a lot of fun too! I'm still slowly working my way through mine...
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Was listening to NPR and they were talking about this photographer's 9-year project of forming a club and taking pictures of STL neighborhoods. http://www.photofloodstl.org/photo-flood-24-downtown/ actually I think NEXT STL also retweeted the interview
This is how you build security and walkability into the neighborhood. 
Look at all those sight-lines and ground level sidewalk activation 
Also pls note the absence of blank windowless walls or curb cuts for garage access.
Those who say it can’t be done are passed up by others already doing it (or something like that
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Look at all those sight-lines and ground level sidewalk activation Also pls note the absence of blank windowless walls or curb cuts for garage access.
Those who say it can’t be done are passed up by others already doing it (or something like that
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Couldn’t recall the name. It’s the mixed use build at Sarah and Laclede. Excellent use of the site!wabash wrote: ↑Aug 20, 2021Where's that? Doesn't look familiar.
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Interesting. I missed that completely. Will have to investigate further. Thank you!2020STL wrote: ↑Aug 20, 2021Was listening to NPR and they were talking about this photographer's 9-year project of forming a club and taking pictures of STL neighborhoods. http://www.photofloodstl.org/photo-flood-24-downtown/ actually I think NEXT STL also retweeted the interview
STLPR* not NPR2020STL wrote: ↑Aug 20, 2021Was listening to NPR and they were talking about this photographer's 9-year project of forming a club and taking pictures of STL neighborhoods. http://www.photofloodstl.org/photo-flood-24-downtown/ actually I think NEXT STL also retweeted the interview
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st ... ghborhoods
Very cool...kind of feel like Mark Groth deserves at least a passing mention haha. He also did all 79 neighborhoods and he did it himself.2020STL wrote: ↑Aug 20, 2021Was listening to NPR and they were talking about this photographer's 9-year project of forming a club and taking pictures of STL neighborhoods. http://www.photofloodstl.org/photo-flood-24-downtown/ actually I think NEXT STL also retweeted the interview
Can you repost this in the Steelcote thread?imran wrote: ↑Aug 20, 2021This is how you build security and walkability into the neighborhood.
Also pls note the absence of blank windowless walls or curb cuts for garage access.
Those who say it can’t be done are passed up by others already doing it (or something like that
...'cuz this is what the Gratiot Street sidewalk of the new Steelcote development could and should look like, with retail on at least one of the corners. They would need one curb cut for the residential garage access, though. I don't see any way around that, at least not without shrinking the building footprint or acquiring the parcel to the east...or, getting rid of the residential parking garage altogether, obviously...
^ So many of our cities and neighborhoods need this, if we could only get over our obsession with cars and parking minimums. And then there’s the lending industry’s inertia to fund outside of conventional wisdom.
Those are certainly factors, but in most projects, both sound urban design and the developer's parking desires can be accommodated with an experienced design, development, and financing team, and properly-deployed carrots and sticks. These are all in short supply in these parts.imran wrote: ↑Aug 21, 2021^ So many of our cities and neighborhoods need this, if we could only get over our obsession with cars and parking minimums. And then there’s the lending industry’s inertia to fund outside of conventional wisdom.
And often what may seem to be an "obsession with cars and parking minimums" is actually just a poorly-camouflaged obsession with security (see City Foundry).
^ The Arch and Busch Stadium are completed so at least after 1966. But probably before 1970.
