Kansas City Design Center - 1020 Baltimore

[DaveKCMO]

i was walking by 1020 baltimore this morning and there is a dumpster and lots of work going on inside. kiva says "kansas city design center" is the project name (they are currently located at 911 main). this space used to be a la petite academy until a few years ago.

[lock+load]

I've been wondering what was going on.  Good to see something take that empty space.

[KCLofts]

Small blurb about this in the Biz Journal today.

The design center is an urban studio for fifth year architecture students.  There are 16 students enrolled from KU and KSU.

[DaveKCMO]

KC Design Center will move

Serda's office will move in July, a month before the center's urban studio begins fall semester classes. The class enrolls 16 fifth-year graduate students, evenly split from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.

The garage is leased to DST Realty Inc. Its ground floor has been empty for several years, since a child-care center closed.

[KCPowercat]

I bet the KSU grads are running circles around those hawks

[FangKC]

I was hoping a restaurant would go in there.  The storefront has room for some limited outdoor seating on Baltimore and in that little access alley between it and the Dwight Building.

[KCMax]

Architecture students will study at a center in downtown KC

[DaveKCMO]

I was hoping a restaurant would go in there.  The storefront has room for some limited outdoor seating on Baltimore and in that little access alley between it and the Dwight Building.

i was actually hoping that they'd bring the frontage all the way out to the sidewalk, like the rest of baltimore.

[unclejay]

I bet the KSU grads are running circles around those hawks

Those are fighting words!!!

[JBMalinee]

I bet the KSU grads are running circles around those hawks

Not to flame, but i couldn't resist. KU and KSU are both excellant schools, but the idea that KSU is better isn't exactly truthful.
http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/june/4/architecture.shtml

KU School of Architecture and Urban Planning named best in the Midwest

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning ranks first in the Midwest and sixth nationwide among all undergraduate architecture programs, according to DesignIntelligence, the publisher of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools....

Programs ranked in the top 10 are:

1. Cornell University
2. Rice University
3. Syracuse University
4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
5. Rhode Island School of Design
6. KU, Auburn University, California Polytechnic State University (tied)
9. University of Texas
10. Carnegie Mellon University

[kcmetro]

Not to flame, but i couldn't resist.
http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/june/4/architecture.shtml

KU School of Architecture and Urban Planning named best in the Midwest

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning ranks first in the Midwest and sixth nationwide among all undergraduate architecture programs, according to DesignIntelligence, the publisher of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools....

Programs ranked in the top 10 are:

1. Cornell University
2. Rice University
3. Syracuse University
4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
5. Rhode Island School of Design
6. KU, Auburn University, California Polytechnic State University (tied)
9. University of Texas
10. Carnegie Mellon University

[KCTigerFan]

Congrats to the Hawks! 

I only say this because Mizzou doesn't have an Architecture program!  &&&   

Not to flame, but i couldn't resist. KU and KSU are both excellant schools, but the idea that KSU is better isn't exactly truthful.
http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/june/4/architecture.shtml

KU School of Architecture and Urban Planning named best in the Midwest

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning ranks first in the Midwest and sixth nationwide among all undergraduate architecture programs, according to DesignIntelligence, the publisher of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools....

Programs ranked in the top 10 are:

1. Cornell University
2. Rice University
3. Syracuse University
4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
5. Rhode Island School of Design
6. KU, Auburn University, California Polytechnic State University (tied)
9. University of Texas
10. Carnegie Mellon University

[KCPowercat]

http://capd.ksu.edu/prospective-student ... in-top-ten

[GRID]

Why isn't UMKC or even MU part of this?  It would be cool if they could put up drawings etc in the windows of what they are doing.

[KC-wildcat]

Why isn't UMKC or even MU part of this?  It would be cool if they could put up drawings etc in the windows of what they are doing.

Are you serious?  They don't have architecture programs

[JBMalinee]

http://capd.ksu.edu/prospective-student ... in-top-ten

what happened this year?

[phxcat]

Programs ranked in the top 10 are:

1. Cornell University
2. Rice University
3. Syracuse University
4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
5. Rhode Island School of Design
6. KU, Auburn University, California Polytechnic State University (tied)
9. University of Texas
10. Carnegie Mellon University

Someone had better let them know about their typo!

[supastudio]

Why isn't UMKC or even MU part of this?  It would be cool if they could put up drawings etc in the windows of what they are doing.

The UMKC Program is actually KSU.  Your diploma comes from KSU.

[GRID]

The UMKC Program is actually KSU.  Your diploma comes from KSU.

That's right, I forgot about that.

[dangerboy]

It's amazing that the UM System doesn't have a real architecture program at any of its campuses.  Ditto for the lack of a real urban planning program in the city itself.  Come on, UMKC, it's stuff like this that hold you back from being a real urban university.