Is it really fair to call that "unbuilt" when nearly everything green in that picture is, in fact, green today? Okay, there's one building that cropped up in the middle of it. After it was all "built" I think, correct? Sure, some of the park bits look a little different than in the rendering. But parks change. The Botanical Garden e looks a little different than it did in Shaw's time, but I wouldn't call his original plan "unbuilt" in any sense of the word. I'd very much say the Gateway Mall was built. And more or less according to that plan or one remarkably similar to it.
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So is the mall area 'raised' over the streets or are the pedestrian bridges over the roads (at least I think I'm seeing that right) just raised over everything? Honestly glad those weren't built.
^Yeah, it does look like the Mall would have been one long, monolithic super-block, with pedestrian bridges over the highway-like streets. Weird.
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^Okay. I stand corrected. I didn't notice that the "grid" was just a few gaps in the greenery and that everything was either elevated or sunken. That is really weird and kind of awful. Looks like 1890s futurism met 1920s city beautiful, they both snuck off and got stoned and this is the result. Indeed, I am glad this wasn't built. Of course . . . I can't imagine how anyone could pay for something like that on that scale.
pdm_ad found these images on HDA Architects' website, and posted them on another thread. I like the design so much, I thought I'd put them here too.
Hanley and Clayton:
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Hanley and Clayton:
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Ugh. Would have been fantastic in downtown Clayton, CWE, downtown, or even CORTEX. Hopefully we see this one get recycled somewhere else.
Would love that in CORTEX!
Anecdote—a few years ago I told a West County friend about the forthcoming TechShop. He joined and got a heartbroken text from him before it hit the news cycle.
Anyway, a smart, plugged-in guy, he said, "So it's opening in CORTEX. I keep hearing about CORTEX. Where CORTEX?"
I'd love to snarkily answer "You know that 20-story glass building along 64 that says 'CORTEX' on top? Yeah, there."
Snark aside, aside from forum-foamers like us, many in metro have heard of CORTEX but don't really know where it is. CORTEX needs to but a stake in the ground. A 15-story+ stake. With a channel-light logo.
Anecdote—a few years ago I told a West County friend about the forthcoming TechShop. He joined and got a heartbroken text from him before it hit the news cycle.
Anyway, a smart, plugged-in guy, he said, "So it's opening in CORTEX. I keep hearing about CORTEX. Where CORTEX?"
I'd love to snarkily answer "You know that 20-story glass building along 64 that says 'CORTEX' on top? Yeah, there."
Snark aside, aside from forum-foamers like us, many in metro have heard of CORTEX but don't really know where it is. CORTEX needs to but a stake in the ground. A 15-story+ stake. With a channel-light logo.
I found this today dated May 24, 1931. A 40 floor tower is proposed to connect 4 existing structures in Downtown because we need more office space. It would've been known as the "Central Tower".
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I see it would have been between Olive and Pine, but I can't make out the other cross streets. Anyone?
According to Emporis, Central Tower would’ve been where St. Louis Place is now at Pine and Broadway.framer wrote:I see it would have been between Olive and Pine, but I can't make out the other cross streets. Anyone?
From St. Louis Magazine: Take a look at a newly discovered set of blueprints for Riverfront Square, a.k.a. "St. Louis Disneyland"
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Wow. I've always wondered what Disney's St. Louis park would've looked like (aside from just a general idea). That's really cool - glad the blueprints survived (and were found).
Vintage rendering of Mansion House, including an unbuilt structure where the Hyatt Hotel is now:
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Southeast corner of Hanley and Wydown. The modernized Art Deco design would have blended nicely with the Moorlands, IMO.
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Found a couple of cool unbuilt Harris Armstrong towers on Andrew Raimist's site Architectural Ruminations.
This 484' tower would have been on Broadway downtown (we may have seen this one already)
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This 484' tower would have been on Broadway downtown (we may have seen this one already)
And this one would have been somewhere on Lindell:
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The Central Tower. It would've been built where St. Louis Place stands now just East of Metropolitan Square. At the time, it would've been the tallest building in the City. It is unfortunate that it wasn't built but when you look at when it was proposed, it makes sense as to why it would never see the light of day.
The Lewis and Clark Tower in North County was originally going to have a twin:
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^Huh! Nice find, Framer. Yes, that really does look like the concept for the Armory hotel.
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^While the differences are obvious, it's surprising just how much that has in common with the actual building. Some of that is doubtless just the style, but it's not just the details. The massings and rhythms feel very very close. Do you know whose design that was? Wouldn't be Harvey Ellis, would it? That would explain a few things