PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread - Page 39

hammersklavier · #**761** Posted **Mar 14, 2012, 5:44 PM**

Dunno if this has been posted before: the site map for Drexel's new master plan. It's a pretty big picture...

summersm343 · #**762** Posted **Mar 14, 2012, 6:01 PM**

I will truly love Drexel if they can manage to bring us all of this.

AJM · #**763** Posted **Mar 16, 2012, 11:27 PM**

The crew from East Coast Hoist will be erecting the Amquip tower crane (Potain MR405) at 8th and Walnut starting tonite at midnite.

summersm343 · #**764** Posted **Mar 18, 2012, 4:21 PM**

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The crew from East Coast Hoist will be erecting the Amquip tower crane (Potain MR405) at 8th and Walnut starting tonite at midnite.

NIce

thanks for the update

hammersklavier · #**765** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 2:04 PM**

Diamond Green is modular!

Parkway · #**766** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 4:05 PM**

I saw that yesterday and was going to post, but then I had meetings and homework other nice things like that. Diamond Green is an interesting project because of where it is and how close it is to Peso Verde, those projects will create an intersting new dynamic east of 10th.

Also in yesterday's Temple News it looks like the Library is officially going to happen, however there is no timeline yet for the project.
http://temple-news.com/2012/03/19/board-approval-signals-new-chapter-for-library/

summersm343 · #**767** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 4:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Parkway

I saw that yesterday and was going to post, but then I had meetings and homework other nice things like that. Diamond Green is an interesting project because of where it is and how close it is to Peso Verde, those projects will create an intersting new dynamic east of 10th.

Also in yesterday's Temple News it looks like the Library is officially going to happen, however there is no timeline yet for the project.
http://temple-news.com/2012/03/19/board-approval-signals-new-chapter-for-library/

Nice! Very happy about that. A library on Broad is going to be awesome.

summersm343 · #**768** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 9:18 PM**

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Diamond Green is modular!

Saw them working on it today... It's so awesome! I'll get out to take pictures soon.

pwp · #**769** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 12:44 PM**

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Nice! Very happy about that. A library on Broad is going to be awesome.

Nice! Wonder what they'll do with Paley. Since we're not getting a Free Library expansion, hopefully this one will be a nice consolation prize.

summersm343 · #**770** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 6:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by pwp

Nice! Wonder what they'll do with Paley. Since we're not getting a Free Library expansion, hopefully this one will be a nice consolation prize.

Yes residents of the city who do not attend Temple will have access to the Library on Broad. Paley Library will get a new facade and will be re-purposed for some research classrooms and labs.

Here is the render for the new Library on Broad

Here is the site plan from the Temple Master Plan. The Library will go right next to the renovated Pearson-McGonigle Hall on Broad Street. Next to the Library will be a new Highrise residence hall and diagonal across the street from that will be a high rise office building. A new park will be created with the demolition of Barton Hall after the completion of the new high rise science building on 12th street.

Here is an idea of what the re-purposed Paley Library will look like. It will be called Paley Hall

hammersklavier · #**771** Posted **Apr 11, 2012, 2:43 PM**

Rivage site update:

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New Onion Flats Renders...

Full article here:
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/36736-rivage-plans&Itemid=6

josef · #**772** Posted **Apr 15, 2012, 3:42 PM**

Article on Diamond Green in today's Inquirer. Between this and Passeo Verde, the area around the regional rail stop's getting busy.

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Diamond Green Apartments to rise in Temple area
Al Heavens, Inquirer Real Estate Columnist

Gregory Reaves and Leslie Smallwood-Lewis stood at the window of a third-floor unit at Diamond Green Apartments just as a SEPTA commuter train pulled away from Temple University Station, bound for Center City.

“See,” Reaves said, smiling. “You couldn’t hear the train, could you? That’s solid construction.”

Undergrads are not known for adhering to a vow of silence, leading many landlords to shun them. Reaves and Smallwood-Lewis believe, however, that quiet surroundings and proximity to the Temple campus will quickly fill their five-story, 92-unit building with 350 paying students.

http://www.philly.com/philly/classifieds...signed_with_Temple_students_in_mind.html

pwp · #**773** Posted **Apr 30, 2012, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

Yes residents of the city who do not attend Temple will have access to the Library on Broad. Paley Library will get a new facade and will be re-purposed for some research classrooms and labs.

Here is the render for the new Library on Broad

Here is the site plan from the Temple Master Plan. The Library will go right next to the renovated Pearson-McGonigle Hall on Broad Street. Next to the Library will be a new Highrise residence hall and diagonal across the street from that will be a high rise office building. A new park will be created with the demolition of Barton Hall after the completion of the new high rise science building on 12th street.

Here is an idea of what the re-purposed Paley Library will look like. It will be called Paley Hall

Wow. Not sure if I like the design all that much.. a lot of concrete. With McGonagle, the new Paley, and the high-rise dorms, this stretch of Broad is going to have quite a bit of density and height. Very nice!

hammersklavier · #**774** Posted **May 3, 2012, 8:22 PM**

Two interesting projects:

2nd and Brown, Northern Liberties:

Source

19th and Fairmount, Francisville:

Source

summersm343 · #**775** Posted **May 4, 2012, 5:08 PM**

Picture updates- taken May 3rd, 2012.

Temple University Area Developments

New PHA Norris Homes (complete)

Diamond Green Student Housing (U/C)

Paseo Verde

Something going on at the Temple U train station?

Temple U Montgomery Parking Garage

Pearson-McGonigle Hall (Nearing completion)

Center City Updates

Arch Street Parking Garage

Center City Home2Suites

University City Update

Penn Nanotechnology Building

josef · #**776** Posted **May 4, 2012, 6:48 PM**

Wow summersm343, thanks for these and all the other photos of stuff you put up today!!

summersm343 · #**777** Posted **May 4, 2012, 9:55 PM**

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Wow summersm343, thanks for these and all the other photos of stuff you put up today!!

Not a problem

woodrow · #**778** Posted **May 11, 2012, 9:27 PM**

Hey - what about the Barnes? I would love to see some forumer pictures of this? It's done and the reviews are rolling in.

apetrella802 · #**779** Posted **May 12, 2012, 1:45 AM**

here is Paul Goldberger's review of the barnes from vanity fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/05/barnes-foundation-building-tod-williams-billie-tsien

poor inga saffron, compared to Paul G. her reiew is very second rate. She says the barnes is cut off from the city. It turns out the new barnes is oriented exactly like the old with the main gallery's back wall facing south onto the parkway. the reason the entrance is not on the parkway is two fold: (1)The desire to oriente the building exactly like the old barnes and (2)the desire to force the visitor to walk from the noise of the street through a quiet increasingly garden like path that helps one get into a more contemplative mood in preperation for entering the galleries.

The Art Museum is the essence of a Beaux Arts plan, the building itself and the way it is linked to City Hall across a grand avenue. As you walk or drive down the parkway and pass the barnes the south elevation presents a somewhat abstract version of a formal momumental Beaux Arts building. The Jerusalem lime stone creates a rich lively surface worthy of the other buildings east and west of it on the parkway.

It's also interesting that although you might say the barnes was only 5 miles away in merion so it already was part of philadelphia's art complex, it now is becoming evident that the synergism form the move is much greater than anyone thought. In 2009 the barnes has a membership of 390 people now it is 18,000 and increasing every day.

My wife and I are going Sunday May 20th so I'll comment again after that.

summersm343 · #**780** Posted **May 12, 2012, 6:23 PM**

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Hey - what about the Barnes? I would love to see some forumer pictures of this? It's done and the reviews are rolling in.

I'll get over and take some pics of that and the new Sister Cities Park one day soon now that both are practically complete.