KCRag Forum

I miss the old place. I had symphony season tickets here for years. Gradually moving up to better seats after one blue haired old lady after another dropped her diamonds, until at last I achieved front row center balcony. There are no comparable seats at Helzberg, the balcony starts much further back.

The windows on the 2nd floor between the columns are better. The old ones had a solid panel in the transom.

Putting a name on the now former JC Nichols fountain will always be anachronistic due to any personal name not matching the subject matter of the sculptures. Depicted are four great rivers, none of which are the Missouri. In ancient Egypt names of pharaohs were often changed on sculpture and monumen...

There were alleged tunnels in the Oaks subdivision between 169 and north Oak. Just look for the houses that look like an Olive Garden. The house on the Paseo is the Henderson House. Was in it in the eighties when they were shoveling deposits of condoms and sanitary napkins out of the carriage house ...

Cannot quite decipher photos of Bryant. Is it a late construction photo? The top setback seems oddly truncated.
The hand sketch in the middle of the views from the P&L resembles the Empire State more than KCPL.

It was the inspiration for the Disney stations.

Could have been much more of a problem. Harry Truman wanted the new courthouse designed with a giant equestrian Jackson on top of the building.

All the speculative renderings for the cap show a park here that terraces down from Wyandotte to Baltimore.

While the only confederate monument that I know of in KC has been removed, there is sentiment to remove all memorials and street names of historical personages with racist attitudes. The JC Nichols name is most often bandied about. The Nichols Pkwy probably could go, but Nichols Road? The Nichols fo...

Having a River-Crown-Plaza centrist world view, I was thinking this would be completely hidden in the skyline by the bulk of Loew's. But seeing the crane from 71, this is going to make a contiguous skyline all the way to the KCPA.

About $750,000.00

Small "bluff" has been constructed with 3 statues atop. Still trying to raise funds to have it all completed for the bicentennial next year.

It would have been nice if the glass were recessed and there was balcony space under the arches. It would have been more in character with the vintage low rise buildings on the stretch.

Pershing is the most European like boulevard in town with its monumental stone buildings and master planned Crown Center. These buildings give the vast space an eastern terminus view.

Love the double reflection of the KCPL on Loews. It looks like W&R might be a little longer east-west than Loews is ?

Stick construction commencing on top.

This will give KC Life the cover to knock the Knickerbocker down.

Or the height of the giant glowing hereford cow on the pylon.

Is this the only rendering available? Hard to judge aesthetics and site interaction with an image that is so one dimensional with only one facade featured.

Recently heard reference to current style of 4-6 story stick built apartments over concrete parking podium called "stubs" and the similar but built around a multilevel garage is "Texas doughnut." Both becoming ubiquitous across the country, all alike but with varying cladding. Cheapest way to get mo...