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it looks good...i like the towers...but im not a fan of elevated parks...but thats just me :)
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Nice mockups. There are accessibility issues with elevated parks, but yours look cool at least. :)
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Nice job, crackerstick!
Do you have any pics of developments that have elevated parks? The only one I've seen is at the Bank of America tower on B St. and I never see people using it. Great detail with the pedestrian bridge :tup: Some downtown gossip - A friend that lives downtown told me that Strata is resubmitting plans to rise to 26 floors, instead of 23. As a neighbor of the project, he gets notices on everything going on in the neighborhood. We shall see.... |
is the diegan topped out?
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^i dont think so, i think it has a few floors (2 or 3) to go, but they have been working on that thing like crazy the past week or so...
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nice pics sandiego_urban:tup:
Mark is looking great as well:) |
I think the problem with elevated parks having accesiblity issues is fixable. Just establish many entrance and exit points. If all of lane field had an elevated park, with grand staircase like structures onto the roof top park ( 2 on the west and east, and the smaller central staircases, accesibility wouldn't be an issue. If the design were one to create a flow of traffic into the park it wouldnt be an issue either. I think most parks on rooftops are very exclusive, like a pool attached to a residential tower. I think if it were trully public space, it would rock!
Its an idea worth exploring for sure, and would be a very iconic type of idea. I mean how many LARGE elevated parks are there. People would say, "Look at San Diego, they managed to encorporate large areas of public open space, and still found room height or development" |
Downtown LA can take some ideas from downtown San Diego. Look at all the street life...
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I realize that this may change over time (several years) but it is difficult to create a viable street scene by just building some mid-rises. |
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I see a lot of people pushing for higher buildings (taller than 40+ stories) in downtown. I am sure that this has been addressed somewhere on this site but the limiting factor for most of downtown San Diego is the groundwater table. You can't dig very far down (for parking) without hitting groundwater. The cost of having a pump system and waterproofing to keep the lower floors dry is prohibitive.
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other coastal cities seem to get by just fine dont they with this prohibitive cost? is san diego unique in this problem?
new york, chicago, miami, etc. etc. |
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Downtown LA will be the place to be in 2010 with LA Live 100% complete and Grand Ave Phase 1 finished. But this picture reminds me of what downtown LA needs: A active, clean, vital, lively street scene: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...l/IMG_7694.jpg I used to live in SD (North Park..I went to Roosevelt Jr High School 10 years ago. THOSE were the days) and while I love LA, San Diego will always be home. |
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anyway, there is plenty of room for correction and i dont see the problem with building higher...especially all the way out in east village. |
anybody know what tower is going up in UTC around Costa Verde? It's about 10 floors up right now.
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^Hyatt Residences maybe?:shrug:
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