https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... V8ehm786_E
Ps. Move to urban theory thread if you’d like.
Ps. Move to urban theory thread if you’d like.
imran wrote: ↑Aug 15, 2021Also since I have not come across a site plan, I am assuming the renderings depict alignment with the hotel building and not the grid-like garage currently set back on the site.
The giant beige waffle on the right is the new connection to the existing garage (you can just make out the garage entrance along the edge).
The waffle nearly abuts the hotel and seems to have an identical setback. There is no site plan, but the first post of this thread has a massing study which shows how the buildings fit together.
^This seems to correspond with the renderings. And after looking at it more closely, it appears that the Siteman building and it's attached waffle will have less of a setback than the hotel, no setback at all really.
Between the hotel, garage entrance, and Siteman porte cochere, that's a whole lotta curb cut in a few hundred feet. There's not even much tree lawn space for trees, let alone sidewalk.
It’s a shame there is no one in City government to speak up against the dehumanizing aspects of these institutional projects…..
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^Could we bother you to post a link to the cam when you have a spare moment?
^ No problem at all! My apologies if I didn’t do it before. There are two.
Camera One:
https://app.oxblue.com/open/claycorp?ca ... d8165c9616
Camera Two:
https://app.oxblue.com/open/claycorp?ca ... e7404aa13a
Camera One:
https://app.oxblue.com/open/claycorp?ca ... d8165c9616
Camera Two:
https://app.oxblue.com/open/claycorp?ca ... e7404aa13a
OxBlue: WUSM Cancer Centernewstl2020 wrote: ↑Sep 11, 2021^Could we bother you to post a link to the cam when you have a spare moment?
OxBlue: WUSM Cancer Center
They are drilling piers in the tree lawn?!
I assumed Forest Park Parkway would lose a lane here, but this suggests the building façade (technically, just the garage podium) will be roughly even with the old curb, which is cool, but...wow.
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I still don't understand why they have a parking garage component when there is a garage adjacent to the property. Couldn't they have built a small bridge connecting the two?
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This building will be connected to the existing garage via the campus Habitrail (so actually, all of the existing garages). There may be a direct vehicle connection between the new and existing garages as well, or at least it looks like they will share a common entrance.Miss Shell wrote: ↑Sep 19, 2021I still don't understand why they have a parking garage component when there is a garage adjacent to the property. Couldn't they have built a small bridge connecting the two?
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But that existing garage is one of the busiest on campus, and the whole point of this new, separate clinic building is so that customers can have outpatient access to all of the world-class medical resources on the BJC/WUSM campus, whilst avoiding all of the madness and unnecessary stress.
Two drills working on the foundations for two tower cranes outside the building footprint. Just a guess, but it makes sense unless there are piers drilled along the entire street.urbanitas wrote: ↑Sep 18, 2021
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They are drilling piers in the tree lawn?!
I assumed Forest Park Parkway would lose a lane here, but this suggests the building façade (technically, just the garage podium) will be roughly even with the old curb, which is cool, but...wow.
^ I think you might be right. Both the East and West cranes have been approved by the FAA. I don't how how accurate the pinpoint on the maps below are, but they look pretty close.
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Seems you might be, maybe, possibly correct, as there's now a tower crane base lying next to the nearest set of drilled piers on camera 2...MattnSTL wrote: ↑Sep 20, 2021Two drills working on the foundations for two tower cranes outside the building footprint. Just a guess, but it makes sense unless there are piers drilled along the entire street.
I guess that tower crane location would place the garage podium façade roughly between the discarded sign and the bushes in the foreground, or the tailgate of the truck if you prefer. From the rendering, the podium façade seems to meander slightly as it runs north-south, meaning it's not parallel to Forest Park Ave. Perhaps that was done to make room for the two tower cranes...
And by the way, that is an interesting perspective of the midtown and downtown skyline over the trees along FPA. Something about all that lush foliage enhances the distant skyline somehow, makes it fuller, denser, whatever...
Amazing. I think they may break the local record for shortest elapsed time between first-official-press-release and full-blown-erection (of cranes, that is)...MattnSTL wrote: ↑Oct 01, 2021West crane going up today.
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^Where's that leave the crane count? I've kind of lost track.