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^Nice find! I suppose I should have guessed it was a planning document. You should see the ones from the twenties if you haven't already.

Crosstown highway at the top.  Buder, Title Guarantee and International buildings gone (over 20 years before they actually were demolished).  The Cervantes era was painful and the scars still exist.      

And look at that book-ending tower at the western end of the Gateway Mall! 

symphonicpoet wrote: ↑

Dec 29, 2020

 The mammoth structure tying together garages and tower blocks along Clark is also interesting. That looks to be something like sixteen blocks tied into a single development. I'm counting six bridges across Clark in about a three block span. Anyway you slice it it's definitely interesting.

I know, that's what I was wanting to get a closer look at; the blocks of what appear to be parking garages to the west of the stadium.  LOL at how multiple exit ramps off of 64/40 terminate right into the parking garages.

I didn't realize that Isamu Noguchi and Edward Durrell Stone had teamed up for a Jefferson National Expansion Memorial competition entry:

Hmmm.  That's interesting.  Looks like a base on the moon east of Memorial Drive.

it does look like a moonscape. maybe it's commentary on the idiocy of leveling 40 square blocks of city for empty space.

This is pretty amazing. It seems that a high school senior named Geneva Abbott conceived of an arch on the Riverfront some 15 years before Eero Saarinen. Her drawing, part of a high school project to envision the future St. Louis, appeared in the 1933 edition of Central High School's yearbook. 

This fun story was "rediscovered" by teenage St. Louisan Abdullah Brown-el, while researching at the Missouri History Museum. Here's Brown-el's blog post about it:

https://mohistory.org/blog/st-louiss-fi ... ront-arch/

And a story from radio station KBIA:

 https://www.kbia.org/post/tuesday-genev ... c#stream/0

^ not only is the kid an excellent writer, he knows how to use an em-dash properly as well! make him the president!

also, Saarinen stole a high school kid's idea. also, also, that 1964 aerial view makes me want to wretch. so... many... buildings... gone... forever...

Found these two projects last night while doing some digging. Both are WashU related and were never built.

2010: Brown School
The first one is related to the Brown School on the Danforth campus. This comes from a 2010 plan that I was not aware of. The website details the plans as the Washington University School for Social Work and includes a "policy forum". It is said that the building was to be 200,000sf.






2012: Lofts in the Loop Concept
This seems to be one of the designs considered for the Lofts in the Loop (where Peacock Diner is). Specific details are not specified since the webpage for this project is broken.

That Forsyth proposal looks nice (from what I can make out). I would have preferred that over Hillman Hall.

The Loop project, on the other hand, while it looks cool and projects a progressive image, probably wouldn't have aged well. I'm happy with how things turned out. 

^ personally i like the unbuilt design much better. looks like white/gray brick. that would have been amazing. have never been a fan of the built design—particularly the stupid rainbow airfoils covering the windows.

also, the Brown School that got built looks pretty good, IMO:

urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

Feb 21, 2021

^ personally i like the unbuilt design much better. looks like white/gray brick. that would have been amazing. have never been a fan of the built design—particularly the stupid rainbow airfoils covering the windows.

The building doesn't have rainbow airfoils, just silver/grey and yellow. 
I agree with some of the other posters on preferring the building that was built. While the white/grey brick, rusted metal window frames and silver reflective windows look kind of cool in the rendering, I question how they'd come together in reality. I like the larger massing though. 

wabash wrote:The building doesn't have rainbow airfoils, just silver/grey and yellow.

close enough to look stupid.

wabash wrote:While the white/grey brick, rusted metal window frames and silver reflective windows look kind of cool in the rendering, I question how they'd come together in reality. I like the larger massing though. 

materials are always key, of course. i took the window frames to be some sort of faux wood paneling. hopefully no architect would be dumb enough to put Cor-10 steel window frames on a white building.

That would've been a wild thing. 

Well, it was a parking lot for 2 decades.  An airport is somewhat more productive I guess..

Another early stadium concept: