This is on a much smaller scale, but the base of the fairfax building is being restored after having been "modernized."
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- Tue Sep 05, 2017 9:34 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Corrigan Building
- Replies: 314
- Views: 106591
Re: OFFICIAL - Corrigan Building
It looks like a student project.
Re: Oak Tower
I've heard that it was because bits of it were falling off, so it was probably a liability issue. Seems like that's how a lot of crimes like this were justified, "We don't want to spend the money on maintaining our building so we're just going to ruin/bulldoze it."
Re: Oak Tower
I still wonder what the deal was with those first floors. Why were they intact?
Re: Oak Tower
I'm pretty sure there is still at least some detailing still under the stucco surface. I found this on the Emporis page for the building... "When SWBT sold the building in 1974, the new owners covered the original terra-cotta skin with a white plaster-like substance over a wire cage which had b...
Re: Oak Tower
Going back to Oak Tower itself, I recently went in the lobby of the building just to see what was in there. I was surprised to find that the room just to the right of the entrance is still decorated in art deco! They even have framed photos and blueprints of the building. I spoke to the one person w...
Re: Oak Tower
I hadn't heard of that one before! Yeah, I'll include it. Thanks for mentioning it
Re: Oak Tower
SW Bell actually did plan to enlarge the building with a twin on the McGee side and a tall gothic spire in between. It would have made it not only the largest building downtown, but also the tallest. There was also a plan in the late eighties to modify the "modernization" with vertical wi...
- Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: Two Light - 14th & Grand
- Replies: 1050
- Views: 393106
Re: Two Light - 14th & Grand
How recent is that last rendering?
- Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:59 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - East9 (former Pickwick Plaza)
- Replies: 328
- Views: 103038
Re: OFFICIAL - East9 (former Pickwick Plaza)
I see. Thanks for clarifying!
- Wed Aug 30, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - East9 (former Pickwick Plaza)
- Replies: 328
- Views: 103038
Re: OFFICIAL - East9 (former Pickwick Plaza)
I thought that area was going to be a pool/gym
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 7:33 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Airport (MKC)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8423
Re: Downtown Airport (MKC)
Here's the same view via Google Earth
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 6:55 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Airport (MKC)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8423
Re: Downtown Airport (MKC)
In the old picture, the Romanesque building in the top left corner with the tower is the old board of trade building. You can also see the junction of Main and Delaware behind the plane's left wing
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: We need a new airport!!!
- Replies: 5031
- Views: 986194
Re: We need a new airport!!!
No renders?
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 11:26 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Status and future of the River Market area??
- Replies: 3007
- Views: 854772
Re: Status and future of the River Market area??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8beautyfromashes wrote:Tetris!!!
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 11:17 am
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Ambassador Hotel (1111 Grand)
- Replies: 168
- Views: 50479
Re: Ambassador Hotel (1111 Grand)
I kinda like it, but only ironically. It looks like an old computer monitor.
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:38 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Union Station
- Replies: 1624
- Views: 256390
Re: Union Station
I see it now. The fountain would be around the front of the plaza if it was all aligned right.
Sigh.
Sigh.
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:07 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Union Station
- Replies: 1624
- Views: 256390
Re: Union Station
I think the three structures are aligned. The stairs ARE a mess though.
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:06 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: Union Station
- Replies: 1624
- Views: 256390
Re: Union Station
Well, that's disappointing.
Thanks for the Imgur advice though!
Thanks for the Imgur advice though!