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The suburbs are second-rate. Cookie-cutter houses, treeless yards, mediocre schools, and more crime than you think. Do your family a favor and move closer to the city.
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The suburbs are second-rate. Cookie-cutter houses, treeless yards, mediocre schools, and more crime than you think. Do your family a favor and move closer to the city.
Hate to sound like a broken record, but the reason Atlanta isn't getting taller buildings is because most development is happening in Midtown where zoning makes it impractical to build anything over 30-40 stories. The maximum square footage allowed is about 10x the land area. We should get some taller projects when Downtown makes a comeback. The maximum square footage there is more like 30-40x the land area.
I was looking at the Campanile building plans and thought it was odd how the building does not align with the street grid and it would be easier to densify the block if it did. Then I noticed that several other buildings in the area are aligned at the same 45 degree angle from the North-South grid. At first I thought they were aligning with the bend here in Peachtree Street, but that is also not the case.
Does anyone know why so many of these buildings share this alignment or if there is something they are aligned to?
I seem to recall from the AIA book 25 years ago that the shift in grid was in response to the First Church of Christ Scientist's positioning on Peachtree. The Memorial Arts Center, built in the 60's and then Colony Square in the 70's all respected the vista and prominence of the church. Later buildings followed suit including the Boys and Girls Club building just north which actually utilized a chamfered corner so as not to block the church and the Norfolk Southern building.
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