Quote:
Originally Posted by chucka
@ShopEastside tweeted a picture of the East Liberty Transit Center yesterday
|
Excellent. It gets a little grainy toward the far end, but seen from that angle the site goes well past front corner of the Target, about level with the middle of the Target, where it only has the width of Penn between them.
Incidentally, the visual impact on the Centre Ave side is going to be way less, for a variety of reasons. The area is trapezoidal to begin with, and then they are leaving the old buildings starting at Highland and over. Then there is a new street, and finally one of the new buildings, but then at the corner there is a plaza. And of course Centre is higher than the Busway, so from that direction the parking structure mostly counts as underground.
On the side I was perviously discussing, in addition to the overall greater length, lower starting elevation, and entirely additional building (behind the old buildings), the new street and plaza and the other side narrow down and are then covered with multi-level bridges, preserving much more continuity. There is an open courtyard on the Penn Avenue building, but it is mostly pretty shallow, with the one deeper corner shadowed by the returning portion of the building.
A lot of that is just a function of the nature of the site, but with some of these choices it is almost like they deliberately softened the visual wall effect on the East Liberty side, while more or less going with it on the Shadyside side.
Prev
Linear Mode
