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Nextstl - La Collina Apartment Building Set to Rise
https://nextstl.com/2021/01/la-collina- ... t-to-rise/
Nextstl - La Collina Apartment Building Set to Rise
https://nextstl.com/2021/01/la-collina- ... t-to-rise/
*gulp.
Why does this sad aesthetic persist? Budget? Misguided client demands?
Hope it looks better in reality but as of now not looking forward to seeing it from the bridge.
Why does this sad aesthetic persist? Budget? Misguided client demands?
Hope it looks better in reality but as of now not looking forward to seeing it from the bridge.
Just think of them as party hats!
Is the cream-colored part of the facade EIFS? It's not even 1/4 brick. How did this get approved (if it did)?
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^I don't think the Hill is very vigilant on design. They let people build McMansions with street facing garages all the timeurbanitas wrote: ↑Jan 28, 2021
Just think of them as party hats!
Is the cream-colored part of the facade EIFS? It's not even 1/4 brick. How did this get approved (if it did)?
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I don't personally think the design looks that bad. I just also don't think it looks good.
Anyway, I hope something will be built on that ugly lot at the southwest corner of Shaw & Boardman. And I hope something will be built on the grassy southeast corner, too.
I would think a developer could make some money there. It would also be pretty nice to have a better entrance into The Hill.
I wonder if the neighborhood could stomach a 150-250 unit apartment complex there, or if the developer would be in for a major fight.
Anyway, I hope something will be built on that ugly lot at the southwest corner of Shaw & Boardman. And I hope something will be built on the grassy southeast corner, too.
I would think a developer could make some money there. It would also be pretty nice to have a better entrance into The Hill.
I wonder if the neighborhood could stomach a 150-250 unit apartment complex there, or if the developer would be in for a major fight.
I don't mind the design of this at all; it's just the cheap fiber-cement panels that ruin it. Picture this in, say, all brick and it would look fine (I'm a big fan of cornices). Some lintels over the windows would help too.
Looks like they got their approval as per Biz Journal article
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... ffice.html
3 story mixed use on the corner. 3 story proper setback triplexes. Make it happen. I can't believe these have been sitting this long. "Welcome to Rigazzi's! Hope you enjoy our vacant land."KansasCitian wrote: ↑Jan 28, 2021I don't personally think the design looks that bad. I just also don't think it looks good.
Anyway, I hope something will be built on that ugly lot at the southwest corner of Shaw & Boardman. And I hope something will be built on the grassy southeast corner, too.
I would think a developer could make some money there. It would also be pretty nice to have a better entrance into The Hill.
I wonder if the neighborhood could stomach a 150-250 unit apartment complex there, or if the developer would be in for a major fight.
Seven more applications submitted
2122 BOARDMAN ST
2124 HEREFORD ST
2021 BOARDMAN ST
2126 HEREFORD ST
2103 BOARDMAN ST
2108 ROBERT RUGGERI PL
2019 BOARDMAN ST
2122 BOARDMAN ST
2124 HEREFORD ST
2021 BOARDMAN ST
2126 HEREFORD ST
2103 BOARDMAN ST
2108 ROBERT RUGGERI PL
2019 BOARDMAN ST
I was on the Hill this afternoon and went by this development and snapped a couple pics. I would imagine the vast majority of folks on this site will disagree with me, but I don't hate it.
I do hate the siding (and the f*cking fake mansard roofs...seriously what is the point with those? Literally no mansard roof can look good with regular shingles...even if it was an original house in Hyde Park, Lafayette Square or Soulard). I'm also a bit surprised the Hill doesn't require the brick to wrap around a little further than it does on these. But I don't hate the varying colors of brick, roof lines, different facades, and most importantly, the narrow urban lots with alley access...among other things.
Plus...I don't hate being in the City and seeing all those unbuilt lots, with signs on them showing they're bought and will soon have homes constructed on them...
Homes along Hereford:
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These are actually on the new Boardman Street that was built through the site:
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Say what you want about the designs...they're selling, and the Hill is growing.
I do hate the siding (and the f*cking fake mansard roofs...seriously what is the point with those? Literally no mansard roof can look good with regular shingles...even if it was an original house in Hyde Park, Lafayette Square or Soulard). I'm also a bit surprised the Hill doesn't require the brick to wrap around a little further than it does on these. But I don't hate the varying colors of brick, roof lines, different facades, and most importantly, the narrow urban lots with alley access...among other things.
Plus...I don't hate being in the City and seeing all those unbuilt lots, with signs on them showing they're bought and will soon have homes constructed on them...
Homes along Hereford:
These are actually on the new Boardman Street that was built through the site:
Say what you want about the designs...they're selling, and the Hill is growing.
I just hope they are built to last. McBride slaps these things up in record time, which makes me question build quality. I saw them slap up a single-family development on Union Road in the County in just a few months and the siding on those homes is starting to warp (if the sun hits it just right) and they're starting to slap up some homes on Gravois in Affton next door to New Mount Sinai Cemetery.
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Those 3-story homes have to be 6 times larger than a lot of other older homes in the neighborhood. It's great that the Hill is seeing such a nice boom.
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I would be inclined to agree, but I will say that these homes are built out of the same materials my parents West County home was built out of in the very early 90s. It was even built by the same company. Provided they’re well taken care of (as I expect most homes on the Hill to be) they’ll probably last a good long while. Obviously various components (like siding) will have to be replaced over the years but I’d imagine that’s pretty common these days.chriss752 wrote: ↑May 11, 2021I just hope they are built to last. McBride slaps these things up in record time, which makes me question build quality. I saw them slap up a single-family development on Union Road in the County in just a few months and the siding on those homes is starting to warp (if the sun hits it just right) and they're starting to slap up some homes on Gravois in Affton next door to New Mount Sinai Cemetery.
One thing I’ll give my parents credit for...we may have had a suburban house in West County but they demanded (and still have) a nice full brick veneer on all sides. One of the only homes in the subdivision with one. I hate veneers as much as the next architecture fan, but I’ll take a veneer in the suburbs over a house covered in siding any day.
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I'm really going to get into it now, but the fake mansards aren't even terrible. They're probably my favorites of the lot. Sure, the siding is horrid and I wish the brick wrapped . . . oh, I don't know, more than a foot back. But it's nice to see good infill and maybe in seventy years these won't look terrible. (If they're still standing, anyway.)
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A few of this style are supposed to be included in the development in Crestwood. I wonder if they will get away with putting them this close to each other. The effect will kind of be lost if they put these on typical suburban lots.
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Unless things have changed, a park is being planned for La Collina that will include a tall water tower that I imagine you would be able to see from Kingshighway. I'm excited to see that part of the development, if it's still included.
I do like the variation. But those mansards are awful. All they'd have to do is move it flush with the front of the home and do a slight tilt back and it'd look far better than that weird mushroom cap mansard that's been reiterated since the 1980s.
Visited Gioia's on Saturday, it's a wide open swath now from Shaw down to Bischoff and allows a nice perspective on the scale of this development.
I would love to in the area, bike to Forest Park and all the restaurants on The Hill.
I would love to in the area, bike to Forest Park and all the restaurants on The Hill.
Agreed. And keep in mind too that asphault shingles are designed to lay flat. Hang them vertically (or near-vertical in this case) and they're susceptible to being blown about by strong winds. That can lead to water seepage in strong storms.sc4mayor wrote: ↑May 11, 2021I do hate the siding (and the f*cking fake mansard roofs...seriously what is the point with those? Literally no mansard roof can look good with regular shingles...even if it was an original house in Hyde Park, Lafayette Square or Soulard).
Modern mansards needn't be shingled in real slate but there has to be a better option than asphault.
Also agreed; never have liked a mullet house. But at least the siding appears to be clapboard and not vinyl. That's... something? And the massing is indeed nice.sc4mayor wrote:I'm also a bit surprised the Hill doesn't require the brick to wrap around a little further than it does on these.
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I'm not even sure if this is a McBride home, since it seems to be a completely different style than the others, but what in the actual f*ck is going on at the roof? It's like the architect couldn't decide between a gable roof or a cornice, soz, "Let's do both!"
And those porch posts... It's all vaguely, I don't know...like some sort of Georgian-Italian Renaissance mishmash? Is this trying to mimick some architectural style in the area of which I am completely unaware?
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......and its still the best looking house in that shoturbanitas wrote: ↑May 11, 2021
I'm not even sure if this is a McBride home, since it seems to be a completely different style than the others, but what in the actual f*ck is going on at the roof? It's like the architect couldn't decide between a gable roof or a cornice, soz, "Let's do both!"
And those porch posts... It's all vaguely, I don't know...like some sort of Georgian-Italian Renaissance mishmash? Is this trying to mimick some architectural style in the area of which I am completely unaware?
