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Demosthenes wrote:

Great start! Keep it coming.

At One-Light fly-by & fly-thru...pretty sweet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DkZlDMOCs8

Looks like it won't be any taller than HnR block. How much of a difference in floor plate heights between commerical and residential?

harbinger911 wrote:cool vid, but didn't they make the building too short?
It appears shorter than Bloch tower in the video.

I actually can't find anything that gives it's height in feet. the video may be correct

KC_JAYHAWK wrote:Looks like it won't be any taller than HnR block. How much of a difference in floor plate heights between commerical and residential?

Someone please tell me that they are not building this with under 10' true ceiling height. Please..........

7-foot ceilings throughout. Studios will be referred to as Hobbit Holes in the brochure.

Dang I'm jelly. Wish I had a virtual Eames lounge and Saarinen womb chair in my condo :-/

There's no way that can be right.....
H&R tower is listed at 236ft

Standard residential ceilings are 10ft. Assuming each floor is 10ft (1st floor was supposed to be much higher) that puts the building at 250ft high. Not counting the foot or so in between floors. Plus the roof has some fancy stuff at the top to add some height. I'm guesstimating it to be more like 290ft high.

.....of course that all goes out the window if the ceilings arent 10ft high, but they sure appear so in the video render.

I was under the impression the height of One Light would not exceed that of WallStreet Tower which is 20 stories and has much higher floors due to being converted from commerical.

regardless of this design, I'm wondering shorter ceilings may be the future of green development.

500 sq feet (made up number) at 10 feet high = 5000 cubic feet. 9 feet = 4500 sq feet. that single foot is a 10% smaller area to cool/heat

and a 10% difference is a lot of money

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Something needs to be done with the lot south of Traders.

Ceiling heights at the View are less than 10 feet. Because of that no utilities can run horizontally between the floors. The only way to power ceiling lighting is by use of sheetrock soffits or exposed conduit.

leasing office is taking the space of what used to be genghis grill.

moderne wrote:Ceiling heights at the View are less than 10 feet. Because of that no utilities can run horizontally between the floors. The only way to power ceiling lighting is by use of sheetrock soffits or exposed conduit.

And you need a hammer drill to hang blinds.

KC_JAYHAWK wrote:Looks like it won't be any taller than HnR block. How much of a difference in floor plate heights between commerical and residential?

Same thing I was thinking. Really wish this would be a landmark tower (At least 30 stories) instead of this crap that they're hyping up as much as the Burj Dubai!

moderne wrote:Ceiling heights at the View are less than 10 feet. Because of that no utilities can run horizontally between the floors. The only way to power ceiling lighting is by use of sheetrock soffits or exposed conduit.

But, the View was originally built as a low income housing project. I doubt ceiling heights were even considered. I always find it amusing driving by to think that one of the higher end condo renovations in DTKC was done in a building where something like 8-12 people have fallen to their deaths in the elevator shafts. Do they disclose that to the tenants? Some states require it, but I'm not sure about MO?

im2kull wrote:I always find it amusing driving by to think that one of the higher end condo renovations in DTKC was done in a building where something like 8-12 people have fallen to their deaths in the elevator shafts.

What? When was this?

It probably wouldn't make a difference. People still pony up a lot of money to stay at the Hyatt.

chaglang wrote:

im2kull wrote:I always find it amusing driving by to think that one of the higher end condo renovations in DTKC was done in a building where something like 8-12 people have fallen to their deaths in the elevator shafts.

What? When was this?

It probably wouldn't make a difference. People still pony up a lot of money to stay at the Hyatt.

When it was the "Vista Del Rio" and not "The View" lol. All throughout the 90's and early 2000's people were falling to their deaths after sneaking into the building. The shafts had no elevators, and the building was seriously dilapidated.

If people avoided living where people have died at some time, there would be no place to live. Don't get the big deal about the deaths of homeless falling down elevator shafts in an abandoned buildinng. A lot more people died at the Coates House fire and people live there also. I don't remember needing Ghostbusters when I lived at the
View.

"But, the View was originally built as a low income housing project. "


Correct if wrong but this is by or on 8th St? If so this was built as River Hills Mark I and Mark II for the two buildings. Although financed by HUD these were market rate apts when first built.