Not claiming causality. Damn, should've begun that sentence with "Meanwhile,..."Alex Ihnen wrote:^ It's good to see support, but I don't know if the conclusion of these two gifts (one upon the death of the donor - so excited he just couldn't take it any more? and the other from his firm to memorialize him upon death) is that "the law community of Greater STL remains pretty excited by the move".
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^ I'll spare you the "inside baseball" of the process, but it was more coincidence than fruitful planning or raw enthusiasm.
What's you're point, Mr. Ihnen? You're beginning to sound as secretive and arrogant as Msgr. Biondi. To micromanage the finer points of where enthusiasm begets money in an effort to ensure "the truth" of the matter is known to the public is odd to me. Such efforts tend to more sincerely originate from dispassionate observers, not blog moderators with an obvious and clear opinion on the subject matter.
(In a mood to rant over meaningless points.)
(In a mood to rant over meaningless points.)
There appears to be some interior demo work proceeding on the building, dumpsters being filled in the back alley.
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Maybe this has been discussed already, but I just noticed that the rendering below, courtesy of ArchCity over at Skyscraperpage, shows Chestnut permanently closed at Tucker by a covered pedestrian walkway and a god-damned statue. Please tell me this is not going to happen.
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Really wouldn't like to see this happen, but given other SLUE developments wouldn't surprise me if this is what they want to do.
Really wouldn't like to see this happen, but given other SLUE developments wouldn't surprise me if this is what they want to do.
)Imagine Chestnut with green grass, a stately steel fence with brick gateways topped by little green metal roofs, sculptures haphazardly strewn around it (to nicely complement City Garden and Richard Serra's work), and a small concrete fountain spewing dyed bright blue water. Maybe they could expand it by tearing down the civil courts building. The possibilities are endless!
Does the work that appears to have started indicate that they will not be adding an additional floor?
"Hey, cool. I do that to the buildings I own too."jakektu wrote:
-Paul McKee
^^The video says they're adding a twelfth floor. I don't see any of the work they're doing impeding that. They may just be waiting to remove the parts where they are adding glass before they add a floor.
Drove by it last night, crews were still doing demo at about 8PM. So I guess they are really pushing to getting it done quickly.
Drove by it last night, crews were still doing demo at about 8PM. So I guess they are really pushing to getting it done quickly.
Thanks for the photo updates! Looks like it's coming along nicely.
I don't understand why they are cutting those slivers into the buildings to be reskinned with all glass. Why not just do that for the entire thing?
I don't understand why they are cutting those slivers into the buildings to be reskinned with all glass. Why not just do that for the entire thing?
Cost - probably would not be justified to reskin the entire facade.wabash wrote:Thanks for the photo updates! Looks like it's coming along nicely.
I don't understand why they are cutting those slivers into the buildings to be reskinned with all glass. Why not just do that for the entire thing?
Aesthetically - the architect is making a statement - the contrast of a vertical band of glazing against the large, modernist facade.
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^ And I think it's for a stairwell and/or to get more natural light into the building. And, you're right, doing the whole building would be massively more expensive than the parts they're doing.
Dunno if anyone's posted this link up in here yet, but here's the building's official website with floor-by-floor information and construction progress reports.
http://www.slu.edu/school-of-law-home/n ... nformation
http://www.slu.edu/school-of-law-home/n ... nformation
