The Pin Tower in Phoenix
Do you think that The Pin observation tower that was proposed a few years ago will ever be built. I feel that it should be revived and actually constructed as it would provide Phoenix with a mass tourism observation deck to look out over the skyline and surrounding area and an iconic symbol for Phoenix in the same way the Space Needle is for Seattle. People should demand the City of Phoenix to encourage the developer of the tower to get the project built.
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It was a speculative design, created by a more-or-less speculative developer (Novasoft or something). As far as I'm aware, they been out of business for many years. The owner doesn't even live in Phoenix anymore. |
Someone posted a little while ago proposing the idea of a large Phoenix Bird version of an observation thing. I thought that was a great idea. But then again none of you guys are helping me win the Power Ball, so it's probably not going to happen.
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It was something similar to this, only shaped more like a Phoenix rising:
https://inhabitat.com/files/xten-lead01.jpg https://inhabitat.com/files/xten-ed03.jpg |
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http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buil...on-tower/14894 |
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So - how do we win the Powerball so we can finance this? :) |
Why was this thread made, it was a stupid never-going-to-happen plan in the first place.
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The CN tower has a dual use as a communications tower. We don't have any need for that with our mountains.
With the height limits downtown and Phoenix still being very much a backwater I don't see the Pin or any similar tower getting built, and I do not see the Midtown folks buying into a taller project outside the limits of the downtown height zone. Moreover, if there were more to observe downtown than a bunch of low density ghetto garbage on three sides I could see something happening but we are a generation from the neighborhoods surrounding downtown from turning around, especially the south side. Finally, downtown would probably have to hold its own against the Scottsdale/PV golf resorts and be a destination in and of itself rather than a weird quirk that occasionally shows up in the New York Times travel section. The Stratosphere was a gamble on a rundown section of Vegas that is still a 2,400 room hotel project at the end of the day. There is nothing, at all, in Phoenix that would warrant that level of private investment today or likely in my lifetime. |
The level of pessimism on this thread is astounding. I'm sitting here in my old stomping grounds of Austin and continue to be amazed at the construction here. No, not all of it is based upon immediate need. It's no wonder Phoenix isn't more of a destination when even the skyscraper fanboys have no confidence in what can be. I'm pretty fucking tired of hearing every excuse in the books as to why Phoenix can't have a legit downtown that impresses and I'm frankly tired of making excuses as to why we can't. We're pushing on 5 million people. Other metros half the size of Phoenix MSA sprawl, so why do they have 400+ buildings getting built? I've come to the conclusion that this city doesn't know how to take risks and the fanboys have become complacent with this.
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Furthermore our excitement on this website has absolutely 0 to do with things getting built.. IF anything now that we have real development to follow we dont need to waste our time on nonsense like the Pin |
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