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SkyscraperPage Forum http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/ en Wed, 16 May 2012 23:05:10 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/images_pb/misc/rss.jpg SkyscraperPage Forum http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/ Interesting transportation things to share with the forum http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199389&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:46:19 GMT This thread is to share pictures & links that are sort of neat, but don't merit having an entire dedicated thread. Think of it as the Transportation subforum's Pinterest thread.

Remember to cite your images per SSP guidelines.

I'm going to sticky it for now. If it turns out to be an unpopular idea I'll unstick it later. ]]> Transportation Cirrus http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199389 BUND COMPLEX by Eduardo Segundo Hernandez http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199388&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:30:28 GMT These are the drawings of "BUND COMPLEX" which is locatd in the city of Shanghai China. Some drawings were quite complicated, but in the end I can say it was worth the effort! :cool:

the project consists of 27 illustrations.

1 - Customs House:

Uploaded with ImageShack.us ]]> Diagrams eduardo segundo http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199388 Zibakenar TV Mast http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199387&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:40 GMT Official... Official sources: http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%...86%D8%A7%D8%B1
Unofficial sources: http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%...B1%D8%A7%D9%86

Building Name: Zibakenar TV Mast
Native Name: دکل تلويزيوني زيباکنار
Other Names:
Address: Chamran Boulevard surrounded by the Ghasrodasht gardens - 37°26′N 49°49′E
City: Rasht
Postal Code:
State/Province: Gilan
Country: Iran
Official Building Website URL:

Architect:
Interesting Facts/Records:
Tallest Structures in iran befor 2006
Heights--
- antenna:
- spire: 365m
- roof:
- top floor:
- other heights:

Current Building Status: Built

Construction Dates--
- started:
- finished:
- destroyed:

Above ground floors:
Below ground floors:
Floor-to-floor height:
Gross Floor area:
Elevator count:
Unit count: 1

Structure Type(s): mast
Building Use(s): communication
Building Style(s):
Building Materials: steel

pic:

*****My Proposal********************
Name: Zibakenar TV Mast
City: Rasht
Country: Iran
Illustrator:
Status: built
Built:
Floors:
Use: communication
Antenna:
Spire: 365m
Roof: ]]> Smh304 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199387 CHICAGO | Hyde Park (53rd Street) Development http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199386&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:13:21 GMT I thought it was about time to finally start a separate thread for all of the projects going in Hyde Park. It's hard to really understand the changes in this area without looking at the whole picture.

So this thread is focused primarily on the transformation of 53rd Street. Feel free to add anything you think is relevant. I will definitely be adding construction photos, new retail tenants, and projects/ renderings in the near future.

Harper Court
Mixed-use development with office, retail, residential

Phase 1:
Retail podium with structured parking - LA Fitness, Chipotle

Office tower - 150,000 square feet leased to the University of Chicago, retail on first two floors

Hyatt Place Hotel - 130 rooms, winebar/restaurant

Future phases: residential tower and mid-rises

City Hyde Park
179 units
Retail tenants: Whole Foods, Chase bank, Original Pancake House

Harper Theater - renovation
Retail tenants: Five Guys, 5-screen New 400 Theaters with Metropolis Coffee cafe

Former Borders Building -exterior facade changes
Retail tenants: Akira flagship, possible restaurant/entertainment concept

Clarke's Diner - open 24/7
1447 East 53rd

Jamie Manley/The Chicago Maroon

Kilwin's chocolate and fudge shop
5226 South Harper

53rd Street Bicycle Station

Future Developments:
McMobil redevelopment - graduate student housing and retail
53rd and Cornell - residential and retail building likely (possibly a tower) ]]> General Development spyguy http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199386 Chamran Hotel http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199385&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:07:23 GMT Official sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamran_Grand_Hotel Unofficial sources: http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/هتل_چمران_شيراز ... Official sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamran_Grand_Hotel
Unofficial sources: http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/هتل_...�ن_شيراز

Building Name: Chamran Hotel
Native Name: هتل چمران
Other Names: Chamran Grand Hotel of Shiraz
Address: Chamran Boulevard surrounded by the Ghasrodasht gardens - 29°37′N 52°32′E
City: Shiraz
Postal Code:
State/Province: Fars
Country: Iran
Official Building Website URL:
http://www.chamranhotel.com/en/
Architect: M.H Shafaatian
Interesting Facts/Records:
highest hotel tower in Iran
Heights--
- antenna:
- spire: 110m
- roof: 109m
- top floor:
- other heights:

Current Building Status: Built

Construction Dates--
- started: 2008
- finished: 2011
- destroyed:

Above ground floors: 30
Below ground floors:
Floor-to-floor height:
Gross Floor area: 99500m2
Elevator count:
Unit count: 1

Structure Type(s): Highrice
Building Use(s): Hotel
Building Style(s): modern
Building Materials:

pic:

*****My Proposal********************
Name: Chamran Hotel
City: Shiraz
Country: Iran
Illustrator:
Status: Built
Built: 2011
Floors: 30
Use: Hotel
Antenna:
Spire:
Roof: 109m ]]> Smh304 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199385 House-Hunting in downtown Hamilton on a medium budget http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199384&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 17:58:01 GMT Hello all. My first post in the forums. We have sold our house in the GTA 'burbs and are house-hunting in downtown Hamilton. As you know, Hamilton has a truly stunning collection of residential homes in the various neighbourhoods, quite remarkable in the variety of styles, size, and the like.

We are smitten with Stinson, Corktown, and parts of St. Clair, but there is so little for sale that it's discouraging. Perhaps it's the fact that so many homes are a duplex or triplex that there's no reason for the owner to sell. We don't want to live near Gage Park: we want to live, work, and play in the heart of the city.

Can you recommend an up-and-coming neighbourhood that we should focus on? A hidden gem that's about to shine? Thanks for any suggestions. Also feel free to PM me if you know of a house that's about to come on the market.

Thanks! ]]> General Discussion movingtohamilton http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199384 City, Museum or Amusement Park? The Problem With Venice http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199382&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 16:41:24 GMT City, Museum or Amusement Park? The Problem With Venice 05/14/2012 By Josh Stephens *Read More:*... City, Museum or Amusement Park? The Problem With Venice

05/14/2012

By Josh Stephens

Read More: http://americancity.org/daily/entry/...em-with-venice

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Venice is thrilling, of course. It dazzles the eye and motivates the feet. With every turn, intersection, bridge and partial view, you imagine what visual gem lurks around the next corner. One moment you’re in a deserted alley that wouldn’t fit a Mini Cooper. Come around a blind corner and it’s the Grand Canal. For an urbanist, however, the experience of visiting Venice can feel like dating a knockout with whom you’ll never quite fall in love. That the charms of density are on display here goes without saying. But it’s not a functional density. Yes, the buildings are set close together and the avenues — for foot and paddle — are narrow.

- It’s tempting to think that not until the widespread adoption of the telephone have more people interacted so quickly and intimately — and with such impressive results — as they did in medieval Venice. You can imagine the energy that must have flowed through the city’s alleys and exploded in its piazzas, every moment offering a chance to make a deal and then, to spend the proceeds on another bauble, be it a Rococo palace or some extra filigree for your balcony. In a city with no dry land to spare, the details matter. All that is gone now. At night most of the windows are dark and tourist wander like lost mall-goers through this quiet city. What’s strange about Venice is that it is still, technically, a city, with residents, an economy and a government. And yet, perhaps nowhere else in the world does the relationship past and present fall so surreally, credulously out of balance.

- Word is a few shipbuilders remain, but I never saw a hint of them. Instead, every business visible seems to exist only to serve tourists. The restaurants all serve the same dishes. The trinket stores all sell the same trinkets. I am the reason why they turn their ovens on each night. I have my quarrels with Joel Kotkin, but I agree that becoming a “boutique city" is one of the worst things a city can become. Venice became one a long time ago. Some 200 years ago, following Napoleon’s conquest, Venice’s traditional merchant and solider-of-fortune economy was disrupted, leaving only the lavishness that those profits bought.

- It has been called a museum, but the tide of tourists (of which, yes, I am one) makes me think amusement park is more apt. It’s full of motion but devoid of energy. Part of me wishes they would in fact make it a museum: Shut down the city, control admission and let it be a historical document, like Pompeii minus the volcano. You can still visit a million live cities and still believe that their best days are ahead of them. And you can believe that you can be a part of them. That goes as much for historical giants like Paris and London as it does for upstarts like Dubai and Bangalore. For all of the challenges in the U.S., it applies to nearly every American city.

- American cities are now retreating back into the past, drawing cues from the Old World. For those on the verge of boutiqueness — the San Franciscos and the Manhattans — the best thing that could happen is not just that they keep growing, but that other places become more like them. We need more choices and more vital, dense places so that density no longer seems so rarified. As challenging as urban development may be, it’s still easier to build new, great places than it is to walk among watery graves. I remind myself, of course, that Venice had a good run. Every city should be so lucky. As American cities now return to the past — to walking, to living compactly — we musn’t fawn over the history that we resurrect but must instead take it seriously. We must let our cities be as good to us as Venice was to the Venetians.

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]]> City Discussions M II A II R II K http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199382 Birmingham - Downtown Revitalization Via Embracing Historic Railroads http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199381&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 16:29:46 GMT Playing along the Railroad Tracks May 8, 2012 By Will French Image: http://urbanland.uli.org/~/media/Images/Urban_Land_Logo.ashx *Read... Playing along the Railroad Tracks

May 8, 2012

By Will French

Read More: http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/20...FrenchRailroad

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For decades, waterfronts have served as a catalyst for revitalization in downtowns across the continent. From Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Vancouver, British Columbia, the promise of developing public areas near these attractive settings has proved successful. But what about cities that are not located on a river, a lake, or an ocean? Where does revitalization start for them?

- Downtown Birmingham’s railroad system, built during the late 1800s, is a major artery for industry, helping make the city the foundry-iron capital of the world at that time and the economic engine of Alabama today. The city’s proximity to all the major elements needed for iron and steel production and the area’s subsequent growth helped give Birmingham its nickname, the Magic City. The rail line has essentially been treated as a river, with downtown bridges passing over the tracks the way Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Lansing, Michigan, built bridges across their waterways.

- Embracing the railroad seemed an odd choice at first, but making it a focal point of revitalization efforts—rather than burying it, as other cities had done—provided a clear path forward. The $17.5 million Railroad Park, opened in 2010 and designed by Berkeley, California–based landscape architect Tom Leader, is the second phase in what is planned as a string of green-space projects throughout Birmingham, intended eventually to give Birmingham more green space per capita than any other city in the country. The park borders the historic railroad lines, uniting the two sides of downtown physically and, more important, socioeconomically. It has become a meeting space for city residents of various backgrounds and sparked a series of new projects in and around the area bordering the park, prompting optimism for future development.

- Evidence of that is a new $64 million baseball stadium for the Birmingham Barons Double-A minor league baseball team, which broke ground in February adjacent to the park. This followed the completion of Cityville Block 121, a $35 million luxury residential complex one block away with 255 apartment units and 21,000 square feet (2,000 sq m) of retail space. It was completed two months before the park’s opening in 2010. Near the park, anticipation has grown around a proposed entertainment district, and a $4 million renovation of the National Biscuit Co. building for use as office and retail space is underway. Also proposed is One Birmingham Place, a multiuse facility intended to foster community collaboration and create a vibrant sense of place downtown on an empty city-owned block adjacent to the park.

- All this development stems from a park that once housed a warehouse and a brick-making facility. The new terrain consists of footpaths, ponds, open green space, plazas, and a skate park, all providing framed views of downtown, as well as of passing trains. Though Leader’s firm had provided the larger design and ultimate concept for the park, it was Birmingham city leaders who initially pushed for the park not to hide the railroad tracks, but instead embrace them as a reminder of what led to the formation of Birmingham. The park is constructed from elements unearthed from the site, including bricks and cobblestones from early Birmingham industrial development along the tracks. Railroad Park is the cornerstone of a larger park system within the city limits that includes 1,100-acre (400 ha) Ruffner Mountain Park seven miles (11 km) to the northeast and the proposed 1,200-acre (500 ha) Red Mountain Park, the same distance to the southwest. The latter two are both former iron-ore mining sites that have been the focus of reclamation projects.

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]]> City Discussions M II A II R II K http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199381 Coordinates to be added http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199379&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 15:53:49 GMT Eibsee Aerial Tramway - Support Tower 1 ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46685 ): Coordinates: 47.4486619 N 10.9904775 E Eibsee Aerial... Eibsee Aerial Tramway - Support Tower 1 ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46685 ): Coordinates: 47.4486619 N 10.9904775 E
Eibsee Aerial Tramway - Support Tower 2 ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46686 ): Coordinates: 47.4406967 N 10.9890344 E
Kitzsteinhorn Aerial Tramway Pylon ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46005): Coordinates: 47.1995899 N 12.6880409 E
Torre Jaume I ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46299): Coordinates: 41.3721541 N 2.1801062 E
Torre Sant Sebastia ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46298 ): Coordinates: 41.3731846 N 2.18778 E ]]> Alpha http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199379 <![CDATA[Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests]]> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199378&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 15:49:14 GMT Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests

16 May 2012

Quote:

A study of the world's largest subway networks has revealed that they are remarkably mathematically similar. The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar structure regardless of where or over how long they were built. The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, analysed 14 subway networks around the world. It found common distributions of stations within the networks, as well as common proportions of the numbers of lines, stations, and total distances.

- It found the total number of stations was proportional to the square of the number of lines - that is, a four-fold increase in station number would result in a doubling of the number of lines. The dense core of central stations all had the same average number of neighbours in the network, and in all cases, about half the total number of stations were found outside the core. In addition, the length of any one branch from the core's centre was about the same as twice the diameter of the core, and the number of stations at a given distance from the centre was proportional to the square of that distance.

- "Although these (networks) might appear to be planned in some centralised manner, it is our contention here that subway systems like many other features of city systems evolve and self-organise themselves as the product of a stream of rational but usually uncoordinated decisions taking place through time," they wrote. The authors say that the systems do not appear to be "fractal". Fractal systems follow mathematical patterns that seem equivalent in a number of physical and social systems ranging from the movements of planets to the movements of depressed people, but they may or may not reflect a deeper, more universal organisational principle. Nevertheless, the team wrote that some underlying rule is likely to be driving the way subway systems end up worldwide.

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Slime moulds grow to seek "optimum" networks that parallel subway organisation

]]> Transportation M II A II R II K http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199378 <![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA | 38th and Chestnut l 25 stories l 278']]> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199377&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 15:16:32 GMT Proposed for the corner of 38th and Chestnut in the heart of University City, is an apartment tower which is hoped to shore up the finances of the... Proposed for the corner of 38th and Chestnut in the heart of University City, is an apartment tower which is hoped to shore up the finances of the Philadelphia Cathedral and enable a steady income stream to be used for costly maintenance and repairs to the church (built 1889, rebuilt 1906) just up the street on 38th. The major bone of contention is the required demolition of two certified historic buildings on the Chestnut Street side (both of which are owned by the Cathedral). Another thorny issue is the massing on this busy corner which will likely overshadow the church itself. Anyway, it's just a proposal for now, and hopefully something more interesting can be done with the exterior.

Courtesy of BLT Architects

Courtesy of BLT Architects

Further reading can be had here.

I'll have more updates when they become available. ]]> Swinefeld http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199377 <![CDATA[Is Vancouver's Housing Bubble Finally Popping?]]> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199376&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 14:21:20 GMT Mayur Arora is seeing something few would have expected in Vancouver’s real estate market – people walking away from deposits on houses,... Mayur Arora is seeing something few would have expected in Vancouver’s real estate market – people walking away from deposits on houses, convinced prices will fall further.

“It happened twice in the last month. One [deposit] was $75,000 and one was a $20,000 deposit, the guys just walked away from it,” said Mr. Arora, who runs Oneflatfee.ca in Surrey, B.C. “They are going to wait it out. So they lost $75,000 and $20,000, but if the market comes down $150,000 on a $1.5-million house, that’s not uncommon.”...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle2433053/

And hidden underneath the developer-driven hype over projects like Telus Garden and Marine Gateway are the facts like the myriad unsold units at OV, projects like 999 Seymour that still have @20% of the units available months after presales launched...

Is sanity finally returning to the market? ]]> General Discussion whatnext http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199376 <![CDATA[SSP forumer beyondtheforest's preservation efforts profiled in Pittsburgh PostGazette]]> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199373&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/blogger-champions-pittsburgh-regions-old-architecture-636059/ ---Quote--- *Blogger... http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/...ecture-636059/

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Blogger champions Pittsburgh region's old architecture

May 16, 2012 12:10 am

By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A photo of a red-brick, gabled house in Braddock illustrates one of Jonathon Denson's blog posts, at the bottom of which he wrote, "P.S. I would be very pleased if someone with money stepped in and saved that ridiculously awesome house."

Taxes on the house, at 210 Talbot Ave., have not been paid since 2009, according to the county website. It was built in 1875 and has a gable over the middle of five upper windows and a porch that runs the width of the house.

In the image on the county's website, the hedges are clipped. When Mr. Denson snapped his recent photo, the foliage had grown wild, obscuring a view of the first floor.

It is one of many buildings and neighborhoods Mr. Denson, a Michigan native, champions on his blog, Discovering Historic Pittsburgh at www.jonathondenson.com.

The 27-year-old social worker moved to the city four years ago with no local contacts or a job.

"I went on a road trip after college, and I loved St. Louis," he said, "but then I came east and went through Pittsburgh and I really loved Pittsburgh, the hills and the houses perched on them."

He decided to stay.

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Discovering Historic Pittsburgh ]]> City Discussions Evergrey http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199373 London - A wonder around Stratford High street, Olympic Park and Royal Docks http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199372&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 11:36:41 GMT First an overview of the Olympic area. Image: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s233/Maryside/London%20Photos/olympicparkregenaerial.jpg ... First an overview of the Olympic area.

This is the Northern half of the Olympic park.

The golden area is the already built Athletes village.

The large red plot is the complete Westfield Stratford City.

The purple plots are the sites that are to be developed once the games have finished and are under control of the Olympic Delivery authority.

The Southern Half of the Park and the High Street Area.

Blue areas are plots that have had plans submitted for planning. The large one in the South West is the Ikea Strand East development where site clearance has begun.

Red areas are already developed, which you will see in my photos.

The brown plot is the Carpenter Estate public housing estate. The local council is so much money here it has already announced plans to 'regenerate' them out of existence.

Orange is under construction

Green sites that have are awaiting redevelopment. Ideas floated, images created but no actual planning permission applied for.

Stratford High street.

Turning west from Stratford high street DLR station. The reason for the orgy of construction along this road, is that it was mostly low grade industrial long past it's peak and it was one of the few area near a major public transport interchange and not under control of the Olympic delivery authority, so private developers have let rip and only the recession has slowed things down.

Restoration of an actual historic structure!

The doomed carpenter estate.

More buildings marking time.

Part of the permanently thronged Westfield Stratford City.

The athletes village, it looks good in person.

More of the park

New Siemans sustainablilty centre

New Cable car station!

]]> My City Photos A-M Rational Plan3 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199372 PBS lists Top Ten Buildings that Changed America http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199369&goto=newpost Tue, 15 May 2012 23:32:13 GMT PBS lists Top Ten Buildings that Changed America 12 May 2012 By Karissa Rosenfield Image:... PBS lists Top Ten Buildings that Changed America

12 May 2012

By Karissa Rosenfield

Read More: http://www.archdaily.com/233659/pbs-...28ArchDaily%29

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PBS has released their selections of the top ten buildings that have changed the way Americans live, work and play. From Thomas Jefferson’s 224-year-0ld Virginia State Capitol to Robert Ventui’s postmodern masterpiece the Vanna Venturi House, each building on the list will be featured in a new TV and web production coming to PBS in 2013.

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1) Virginia State Capitol / Thomas Jefferson (1788) - Richmond, Virginia