KCRag Forum

  I live in a high rise in this area, with balconys, and can attest that neither a balcony on high, or a doorman contributes to anyone watching the street for crime.  Someone got attacked the other night right below me and it could have been the other side of the moon.  Please go to the Continent to...

  Fang, do you live in a high rise?

    Its wierd that the north end of the block was planned for an elegant red granite tower, yet UMB leapfrogged 2 blocks east for their computer center on Oak and also razed the nicely restored Lathrop Building between the two on Grand for a surface lot. 

It is not Quality Hill type housing planned in East Village.  QH is town house/row house, a unit in the lower level and a 2 floor unit above.  East Village will be more akin to brownstones back east of the scale of European urban neighborhoods.  More units and more dense than QH, but a more civilzed...

    What are those large concrete panels they are welding together?  Back walls of restaurant row?

  Thats not much more than a month, and rest of the steel superstructure has yet to be erected.

  Is that glass we see rounding the curve on the CIMO webcam?

The 2 attached covered parking space will increase the value of your unit at the Manhattan now and in the future.  Already the costs of the spaces has gone up from developers and only will continue to increase.  Right now the Garment District has more of a neighborhood feel, but East Village is soon...

I have gone down and stood on both Main and Walnut looking about a third of the way up the block.  I think the pedestrian alleyway running from Baltimore to Grand will end up being one of the most urbane spots in the city. The vistas will be outstanding.  It appears to me the design was in part a wa...

  How about calling  you castle-ated residential Maison Choteau, or Chateau Choteau to honor our French father.

They are not evergreens, conifers, or pines.  They are cypress which are deciduous.  The entire park is irrigated so all plantings are making excellent growth despite these drought years.

  It does not seem it would have cost that much more to recess the supercolumns and increase the spans of the trusses by twenty feet.

It will not have a stop at every block like a local bus.  In conjunction with MODOt this would be the perfect time to put overpasses where there are the two lights now.  Along with the overpass would be pedestrian walkways and stations.  Refer to the Century Freeway in LA which was also built to acc...

What about going down Bruce Watkins south of Brush Creek.  The spacious median, at times a block wide ,was designed to incorporate rail at a future date.  There would be room for nice stations, and it might help development on adjoining Prospect.

  Please read my criticisms again.  Then read a little (and look) about the design principles espoused by the Taliesen master of your avatar.

Compared to this, Colonnade is sensitive to its surroundingboth in materials and articulation.

  To me the massing is all wrong.  Needs to be broken up, not necessarily to the extent of the West Edge, but similar.  Look up the hill from the southeast where you can see the Safdie designed Atriums, and the residential called the Montreaux(or named something similar, I am not sure).  It gives a ...

For those who do not know the history, the current building was the Plaza Hilton Inn and was the very first hotel ever serving the Plaza.  For many years the Kona Kai was one of the most popular restaurants in town, back when Asian food of any kind was exotic.

Don't forget federal funding went into the skywalks over Pershing and Main as part of mass transit funding with the understanding future light rail was going down Grand and so some pedestrian connectivity was needed for future commuter rail at US.  That was the rationale of the powers that be at the...

How about keeping Broadway, putting the rail next to it, but do something like Central Park.  Drain the lake, run Broadway and the tracks down the ravine from 31st. Two or three culvert tunnels covered with lawn and landscaping with Broadway running through them could finally connect east and west.