ATLANTA | Development Thread V - Page 869

Martinman · #**17361** Posted **Mar 5, 2016, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

The March DRC Agenda is out: http://www.midtownatl.com/_files/docs/agenda-03-08-16---final.pdf

The Standard must be the project that killed the Quad, also it looks like the HPC has been redesigned so all the parking is underground.

Wow! Another student tower?

Martinman · #**17362** Posted **Mar 5, 2016, 10:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by RocketSurgeon

I'm not sure if the parking was ever shown above grade, the design seemed ambiguous on that... but please tell me they revised the whole thing, because if not, I'll be rooting for its failure. My reaction to projects usually ranges from excitement to indifference, but I absolutely hate that one. It's a mess of disjointed shapes, its short height and L-shape make it an eclipse-inducing behemoth, and it has absolutely no continuity with the Crum & Forster building.

Compare that to the original, which--while a bit safe--was a respectable, tower-shaped building with a base that blended well with C&F:

That was never the design of the project. That was just a placeholder rendering to demonstrate the general concept which is why it's so plain.

atlwarrior · #**17363** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 7:09 AM**

Yippie! So excited to see GT computing building moving forward. Any word on JPX Peachtree & 3rd when the former building will come down.

atlwarrior · #**17364** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 7:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by thepope117

The Standard's western views will be "interesting" being next door to flex.

That spot would be so perfect for another tower.

atlwarrior · #**17365** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 7:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeanuts

The March DRC Agenda is out: http://www.midtownatl.com/_files/docs/agenda-03-08-16---final.pdf

The Standard must be the project that killed the Quad, also it looks like the HPC has been redesigned so all the parking is underground.

Since QTS is no longer in charge of the development for the high performance building. Did the building design change?

Martinman · #**17366** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 11:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by atlwarrior

Since QTS is no longer in charge of the development for the high performance building. Did the building design change?

Portman is developer of the buildings. QTS was in charge of the data center only.

The design may have changed but the released renderings did not show any above ground parking anyway. The center courtyard, appears to run the length of the site with the data center occupying the ground level on one side and the retail on the other. I was always curious about the parking based on these images and I am sure we will learn more after the DRC meeting.

GeorgiaPeanuts · #**17367** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 1:28 PM**

Oh I had though that ugly as sin thing attaching to the old building was a parking deck,

Frankster87 · #**17368** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 1:33 PM**

The ever changing Midtown skyline from Piedmont Park. I count 4 visible cranes in this shot alone. Yoo on the Park is already beginning to make it's mark.

*Edit: Here's a second shot of both Azure and Yoo making their marks on the Midtown skyline from Piedmont Park.

bigstick · #**17369** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 2:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Frankster87

The ever changing Midtown skyline from Piedmont Park. I count 4 visible cranes in this shot alone. Yoo on the Park is already beginning to make it's mark.

*Edit: Here's a second shot of both Azure and Yoo making their marks on the Midtown skyline from Piedmont Park.

arjay57 · #**17370** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 2:43 PM**

Does the downtown DRC have a website or a place where projects are posted?

I know the DRC's for midtown and Buckhead do. Are there others as well?

gttx · #**17371** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 2:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martinman

As a graduate student, I helped organize other students to fight for the preservation of Crum & Forster.

If this is really the design of the new building, I'd actually consider coming back to Atlanta to join in protests. This is the worst tower proposal in Atlanta since whatever Portman's last monstrosity was.

Terminus · #**17372** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by arjay57

Does the downtown DRC have a website or a place where projects are posted?

I know the DRC's for midtown and Buckhead do. Are there others as well?

There's one for Downtown, Lindbergh, and BeltLine. None of these are posted publicly.

sbrptree · #**17373** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 4:04 PM**

Surveyors spent most of Saturday marking up the 7th @ Peachtree (881 Peachtree) Hanover Midtown site....

ATLmangum · #**17374** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by gttx

As a graduate student, I helped organize other students to fight for the preservation of Crum & Forster.

If this is really the design of the new building, I'd actually consider coming back to Atlanta to join in protests. This is the worst tower proposal in Atlanta since whatever Portman's last monstrosity was.

The design has actually grown on me. At least it's not your cookie cutter boring square design.

Libertarian · #**17375** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 5:35 PM**

At least we're not putting up these ridiculous spaghetti-thin highrise atrocities for the 0.001% that look completely out of place in a skyline.

ATLcubs · #**17376** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATLmangum

The design has actually grown on me. At least it's not your cookie cutter boring square design.

I agree. I'm not real sure where all the animosity is coming from, I guess it stems from the same place that the negative reaction to NCRs original design came from. I don't think it's a bad building at all, and that's a cartoonish rendering of what it will actually look like, so it'll look a lot better (or less bad for some of you) once the actual thing is built. Just my two cents

arjay57 · #**17377** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Terminus

There's one for Downtown, Lindbergh, and BeltLine. None of these are posted publicly.

It would be great if all the DRC's could post their agendas and/or recommendations somewhere.

testarossa50 · #**17378** Posted **Mar 6, 2016, 11:42 PM**

Tree removal markers are up for the hotel on 14th next to the Four Seasons.

Martinman · #**17379** Posted **Mar 7, 2016, 12:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by gttx

As a graduate student, I helped organize other students to fight for the preservation of Crum & Forster.

If this is really the design of the new building, I'd actually consider coming back to Atlanta to join in protests. This is the worst tower proposal in Atlanta since whatever Portman's last monstrosity was.

I agree.

Why?

The Crum & Forster building is not integrated at all with the rest of the site. There's the interior courtyard which you would think we would have learned by now is terrible for retail. And then there is this massively wide L- shaped tower. If the Tech space and for-lease space we're vertically stacked, we'd be looking at close to 40 stories.

I do like the look of the West Peachtree Street tower. But the fact that is connected to another wide tower is just too much.

BlueSangha · #**17380** Posted **Mar 7, 2016, 1:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by testarossa50

Tree removal markers are up for the hotel on 14th next to the Four Seasons.

as they are for the 15th St. and W. Ptree Hotel too.