Projects & Construction:
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Stevens Center Renovation:
This is now a new and different project compared to what we have previously talked about, over the past two years. So, I'll change the name of the project to something that better reflects what they are doing (until we have an official name) and label it as new. Architect Robert A.M. Stern is proposing to recreate the original entrances, recreate the 1928 marquee/canopy, recreate the original 1928 theatre blade sign, recreate the original facade where the window wall is located, and he is proposing a change to the second and third floor windows, along with a faux balcony in the middle of the facade. The lobby will be three times larger than what you see today. A decision was also made to convert the upper floors of the tower into graduate student housing, guest artist housing, and some offices. So, the tower will become a tall downtown dormitory for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Having some of the best young artists in the world living in the middle of downtown Winston-Salem is great news! This university would like for this side of downtown to become a center of arts and arts-based entrepreneurs. This project is their first step toward that goal.
https://www.uncsa.edu/news/20170922-...n-concept.aspx
We now have a view looking in the other direction of the theatre:
Credit: UNCSA / Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Before (left) and After (right), showing the facade changes:
Credit: UNCSA / Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Bailey Business Center - Building 23-2: (Bailey Power Plant Complex)
Forsyth County has appropriated $3 million to build infrastructure improvements and acquire an easement at the Bailey Power Plant adaptive-reuse project. The reason half of the windows in the east facade projection were removed: They needed a way to lift large construction materials into the building. Workers are lifting construction materials from flatbed trailers into that opening.
You may want to visit Bailey Park, on October 6 at 8 p.m., to see the documentary film "Urbanized" by Gary Hustwit. It's free and presented by the Winston-Salem AIA. If you go, please photograph the power plant and link apartments for our thread.
This awesome photograph shows the windows removed from the projection, the entrance, and the restaurant space:
Credit: smallbusinesscenterforsyth
Progress on the arbor around the smokestack: (This will become an outdoor area for the second restaurant space)
Credit: mtthw.lawrence
A view of the arbor from Bailey Park:
Credit: mtthw.lawrence
Yes, this photograph is from NFL player Eric Wallace:
Credit: polymathicwallace
Forsyth County Courthouse:
Forsyth County has closed on the purchase of land at 175 North Chestnut Street, from a San Francisco-based biotech space developer, for a new courthouse. The biotech space developer could make an additional $150,000 if an easement is removed from the property.
1794 Boys' School Restoration:
Workers are cladding the Piazza with Flemish-bond brick work.
Credit: oldsaleminc
Credit: bucktu
Original 1794 building being restored:
Credit: ruskomamavamerike
U.S. Olympic Cycling Training Center:
Credit: erick_amir
Union Station & Streetcar Yard:
You can see the changes in terrain, as the building changes from one to three storeys:
Credit: mehannahmesmash
418 North Marshall Street:
An update on this adaptive-reuse project, converting an old newspaper complex into office space for creative companies.
Workers removing the precast panels to add more windows:
Credit: Frank L. Blum Construction
Downtown Marriott Renovation:
Repointing:
Credit: Fam Brownlee
Salem Lake Marina: Built!
There was never an official announcement on the completion/opening? It does appear to be open, if you're interested in using the facility? Sadly, this is the only photograph I've seen of the marina in the past few weeks. So, no big photography post on this project.
Credit: grangerkl
Downtown Hampton Inn & Suites:
Nearly everything here is a construction site or is about to be a construction site:
Credit: Matthew Baker
Link Apartments Innovation Quarter:
Part of the north tower crane arrived at the site, yesterday.
Look at the height of that core, on the far left:
Credit: breathingroomws
A night view of the core:
Credit: bradford_9673
Cores towering over the Bailey Blues & Bluegrass Festival:
Credit: jacksondulaney
Twin City Lofts Condominiums:
Credit: stitchdesignshop
I see they added facade lighting, so the building will glow on the skyline at night:
Credit: viatordesignandconstruction
Will these trees present problems in the future, with their branches pushing or growing into the building's brise-soleil?
Credit: selectengineering
Credit: selectengineering
Credit: selectengineering
Hotel Indigo:
I found a photograph showing construction vehicles on the neighboring site, where a mixed-use building is proposed. They are doing facade repairs/cleaning and drywall. Sadly, the site the photograph was from didn't seem to work? The proposed site for the Hyatt Place, with office space and apartments, appears to be Hotel Indigo's construction staging area. So, the Hyatt Place mixed-use project likely won't break ground until Hotel Indigo is completed (Late Spring / Early Summer 2018)?
I think I see a spray, like hydroblasting or pressure washing?
Credit: Unknown?
Hotel Indigo is behind this sign:
Credit: juajua84
Alternative Transportation:
Rails-to-Trails Bicycle Commuter Highway: (Winston-Salem's High Line)
Credit: carlin_cas
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Constructing a new high line bridge over Fifth Street:
Credit: nell.perry
Existing railroad bridge to be removed:
Credit: WFU Engineering
The new bridge:
Credit: WFU Engineering
Off-Subject:
Random Photographs:
Credit: meghan_parsons
Credit: rammy_4564
Credit: rammy_4564
This building was designed by famed architect Ralph Adams Cram:
Credit: a.g.l.alun
An 1895 photograph of a 1775 building. The building is still there:
Credit: oldsaleminc
Credit: Winston-Salem Foundation