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Originally Posted by ardecila
That's assuming you think towers in a park are de-facto bad, which is not obviously true.
I would be on board if some of the park space was replaced by townhouses done to complement the highrises, and maybe retail pavilions along the edges where they make sense. It would be something like Lafayette Park in Detroit. But I do think the green space is an important part of these communities. I'd hate to see it thrown away on a bunch of mediocre filler buildings.
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I'd be interested in seeing your counterexamples, if you're going to claim that towers in the park aren't in fact bad. Where do you think they work well?
Like most, I'm in favor of green space, but it needs to be arranged properly. A park surrounded by towers generally trumps towers scattered in a park (especially when the latter tends to include more surface parking and driveways).
On another note, the Apple store looks interesting. I'd love to see more and clearer renderings, but I find it notable that they seem to have gone with columns at the corners rather than an all structural glass approach. The Prairie influence is obvious, but the roundrect roof shape is more of an Apple touch (although I can't recall them using that shape in architecture, just their products). I also wonder at the absence of any Apple logos, perhaps those will come later in the design process.
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yeah ok thats 905 N Orleans... so I guess the chestnut/orleans is just staging equipment and such for the 'Avant' or 'Next' or whatever its called
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