Salt Lake Plus

Sight-Seer · #1 Posted **Jan 8, 2011, 3:06 PM**

This thread is for alternate, future, and fantasy Salt Lake City projects. Everyone is invited to contribute.

Sight-Seer · #2 Posted **Jan 8, 2011, 3:11 PM**

A model of a fantasy convention center hotel under construction across from the Salt Palace, with the new Promontory condo tower in the foreground.

Flamesrule · #3 Posted **Jan 8, 2011, 4:37 PM**

Interesting thread, i'll have to check in this from time to time.

Did you create these renders?

Sight-Seer · #4 Posted **Jan 9, 2011, 1:44 AM**

I created the models and textures in this picture except for the drawing of the front of the Nordstrom store which is from material provided by the developers of the City Creek Center (also known as CCC). The Promontory is a 30-story condo tower which is part of CCC. It is named for Promontory Point near Great Salt Lake where the first transcontinental railroad was completed. The Pomontory is finished and units should go on sale this month.

Flamesrule · #5 Posted **Jan 9, 2011, 2:11 AM**

Awesome.

What program do you use?

Sight-Seer · #6 Posted **Jan 9, 2011, 3:52 AM**

I use Lightwave 9.6 and PhotoShop CS2 mostly.

Sight-Seer · #7 Posted **Jan 12, 2011, 4:26 AM**

Below is a new 35-story hotel under construction on the site of the downtown Marriott. It is next to the City Creek Center and across from the Salt Palace. In the background is the Promontory, a condo building which is part of CCC.

The hotel is my design. The Promontory is my model. The other models in the picture: the Salt Palace, the Tabernacle, and the Assembly Hall, came from Google 3D Warehouse and were resized and rotated.

Sight-Seer · #8 Posted **Jan 14, 2011, 1:13 PM**

Another construction image.

RLS_rls · #9 Posted **Jan 20, 2011, 8:38 AM**

^Impressive work

Sight-Seer · #10 Posted **Feb 14, 2011, 4:32 AM**

The east side of Main Street showing the skybridge, with the Regent condo tower in the background.

The Main Street buildings and surface images and the skybridge are original creations by me. The others were downloaded from Google.

Sight-Seer · #11 Posted **Feb 24, 2011, 9:09 PM**

The uPART Center, which stands for Utah Performing Arts, is 600 feet tall and 35 stories. It has 850,000 square feet of office space. It is located on Regent Street south of The Regent condo tower and occupies the former site of the old Deseret News building (east of the current Deseret News tower).

Sight-Seer · #12 Posted **Apr 7, 2011, 5:30 AM**

Back in the 80's Salt Lake came very close to having a 35-story skyscraper. It would have been built at the Triad Center across from the Union Pacific depot. Below is a newspaper clipping of the building and other structures planned for the area.

Although the part about the ground-breaking ceremony was chopped off, it was an elaborate afair and reflected the excitement felt by the Salt Lake business community. Later, parts of the steel frame were delivered and stacked on the ground, covering half of a block. Then nothing happened. The enormous columns and beams sat for months. Finally they were sold to a metal fabricating plant in Utah county. My rendering of One Triad Center appears below. It is pieced together from a few blurry newspaper clippings, but hopefully is quite close.

I always regretted that this building was never built. Judging by the drawings that were released, it would have been a very attractive building. I especially like the blending of old and new, brick and glass. It was obviously meant to tie in with the historic Union Pacific depot. Information about it is sketchy. I found a passage that said the height would have been "just under 500 feet".

Edit: Added detail to arches. Improved lighting and color of brick.

redzeppelin · #13 Posted **Apr 7, 2011, 3:01 PM**

Just ignore my post and follow ctobsl's link below. Wow. I was just a bit ignorant of the grandiose nature of Triad's original vision.

ctobsl · #14 Posted **Apr 7, 2011, 3:25 PM**

Here's more...

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=4028386

Sight-Seer · #15 Posted **Apr 16, 2011, 1:58 PM**

I'd like to do a model of the hotel across the street to the east, which was to be a Hyatt Regency. The trouble is, I don't know what the front was supposed to look like. I think I'd just have to improvize. I think it would have been an interesting-looking building. I'd really like to see the architectural drawings if they're still in existance.