Skylines and Developments of the US/World

Got to spend an afternoon and evening in Calgary. Clean, bigger than I expected, with a really nice park along the river. It seems like the high rises downtown were mostly commercial in the past but most newer looking tower appeared to be condos. Saw several buffered bike lanes and the river park had well used dedicated lanes for cyclists but I didn’t have a chance to rent a bike. Bus to the airport was quick and timely.
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Looking up Key Tower in Cleveland, with Terminal Tower in the background. I wish Boston could get a building like this. It reads as extremely tall with the setbacks and the crown, even though the Hancock's top floors are as high as the lower portion of the crown. (ie the Hancock has the higher "vertical wall" but Key Tower just seems so much taller) It's easily one of my favorite buildings I have seen in person, probably even better than Liberty Place in Philadelphia which I'm borderline obsessed with. Also it's the "King" tower to Charlotte's "Queen" BOA but is clearly the better of the 2, based on seeing them both up close. Love this building so much.

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Richmond’s got a lot of great infill development. Back when I lived in D.C., I’d head down there pretty often just to get out of the DMV. It’s far enough away that it really feels like its own city with a unique vibe. Like was mentioned in the video, it gets overshadowed by NoVA (Arlington, Alexandria), but that’s also why it’s still the only big city in Virginia that’s actually affordable.
 
DZH22 said:
Looking up Key Tower in Cleveland, with Terminal Tower in the background. I wish Boston could get a building like this. It reads as extremely tall with the setbacks and the crown, even though the Hancock's top floors are as high as the lower portion of the crown. (ie the Hancock has the higher "vertical wall" but Key Tower just seems so much taller) It's easily one of my favorite buildings I have seen in person, probably even better than Liberty Place in Philadelphia which I'm borderline obsessed with. Also it's the "King" tower to Charlotte's "Queen" BOA but is clearly the better of the 2, based on seeing them both up close. Love this building so much.

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I absolutely love that building; classic, stately, timeless. Boston does need something like this. It would have looked great above South Station instead of the glass tower that was built.
 
Had a date night with MrsDee54321 and was able to snap a few shots of the world's second tallest building, Merdeka 118 (and a few other places).

If you look closely at one of the shots, you'll see a cool rainbow that appeared after a storm.
 

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Affordable Infill Proposed For 2900 Wah Avenue, Sacramento​

“The project is being co-developed by Habitat for Humanity and Mutual Housing, with the two organizations splitting the roughly five-acre lot into two separate applications. Full build-out is looking to produce 101 apartments and 23 single-family homes...”

“Of the 23 single-family homes, unit sizes will vary, with four two-bedroom, seven three-bedroom, and 12 four-bedroom dwellings…”

“The 44-foot-tall apartment complex is expected to produce 101 units across 134,750 square feet. Unit types will vary, with 23 one-bedroom, 50 two-bedroom, and 28 three-bedroom units….”

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-Its nice to see some starter homes being built, as not many get built these days. Also the fact that the sfh’s are being built very densely definitely helps to not to waste too much valuable space…

Buuut this project really makes it blatantly obvious how much denser apartment/condos are compared to sfh, even when built densely.

It appears that there is slightly more land on the left side of the lot than the right. Yet the right side is going to house multiple times more people.

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Theres only 23 units on the left side and 101 on the right! Thats about 4.5x more units on slightly less land.. right next door. This project really shows the disparity of density in building types right out in the open.

*Since these units all had many different amounts if bedrooms I figured Id add it up to see kind of an average of the difference in population density. I just counted it as 1 person per bedroom to make it easier and that would be more of a floor for what the population would be.

77 people on the sfh side
207 people on the apartment side

Crazy.

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Affordable Infill Proposed For 2900 Wah Avenue, Sacramento - San Francisco YIMBY

Plans have been filed for an affordable housing development at 2900 Wah Avenue in the residential Woodbine neighborhood of Sacramento...
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DZH22 said:
New hospital buildings in Philadelphia. Now compare this to what we're getting at MGH...

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What am I missing with this post? I’m not seeing anything particularly different from hospital projects in Boston aside from the sheer footprint of those buildings. In fact, they are somewhat suburban in nature.
 
bdurden said:
What am I missing with this post? I’m not seeing anything particularly different from hospital projects in Boston aside from the sheer footprint of those buildings. In fact, they are somewhat suburban in nature.
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Height/proportions and quality of cladding. Compare to the junk we're getting at MGH or the stumps we get in Longwood.
 
It’s research and office space, not an inpatient/clinical facility. Why is this such a difficult concept?
 
kmp1284 said:
It’s research and office space, not an inpatient/clinical facility. Why is this such a difficult concept?
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More to this point, its also not on the incredibly constrained UPenn/HUP Campus. The more apt comparison would be to the recently completed HUP Pavillion, which is no particular stunner from many angles.
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Stlin said:
More to this point, its also not on the incredibly constrained UPenn/HUP Campus. The more apt comparison would be to the recently completed HUP Pavillion, which is no particular stunner from many angles.
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Man hospital complexes are all so weird and complex but all so similar. They usually consist of a couple old school low rises with some added on fat mid rises on big podiums, and then gerbil tubes all over the place connecting the different parts together
 
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