OFFICIAL - Bartle Hall Expansion construction

Post by **bahua** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:57 pm

Now we just need ATT to take down that ugly tower.

KCDevin · Post by **KCDevin** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:38 pm

No, we just need to live with it... What would you replace it with? You should never replace a skyscraper with something smaller than it... Not even if it's the ugliest building in the world...

Besides, that building can be renovated and redesigned in the future... Or completely demolished and replaced with a tower just as big/tall...

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:46 pm

unless we don't want data/voice communications, that place ain't going anywhere. A nice mural on the side would help.

LCDSI · Post by **LCDSI** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 4:53 pm

great pictures! just out of curiosity where did you get them?

GRID · Post by **GRID** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:57 pm

another rendering:

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:13 pm

that huge concrete area seems like wasted space...where are the fountains?

GRID · Post by **GRID** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:51 pm

KCPowercat wrote:that huge concrete area seems like wasted space...where are the fountains?

What are you talking about, the plaza area?

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:55 pm

yeah to the left of the buses. In previous renderings that was much more attractive.

GRID · Post by **GRID** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:57 pm

Well, it's sore of an interior bus turnaround place, but it could use some better aesthitic design. I think they have pulled the foutain that was to go in that area.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:02 pm

I like the bus pull in areas....especially from another rendering how 670 is almost completely covered...like in this rendering

Still, give me SOMETHING in the middle of that turnaround area...way too bare.

moderne · Post by **moderne** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:56 pm

How about if it was paved with granite blocks, and then put a nice water feature\sculpture on the grassy terrace on the west?

aknowledgeableperson · Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:51 pm

Don't need fountains shooting water up into the air because on a windy day the patrons will get wet from the wind spray. A cascading fountain would be nice though. In the middle you don't want anything to attract people to since that could cause some safety concerns. You could have some art work though, maybe on an elevated platform.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:59 pm

aknowledgeableperson wrote:Don't need fountains shooting water up into the air because on a windy day the patrons will get wet from the wind spray. A cascading fountain would be nice though. In the middle you don't want anything to attract people to since that could cause some safety concerns. You could have some art work though, maybe on an elevated platform.

Yeah nothing big, just something to break up that big concrete drive. A well landscaped traffic circle and a small fountain on the west embankment.

ComandanteCero · Post by **ComandanteCero** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:03 pm

how about a giant cow that shoots water vapor out its nose (sporadically of course, no continuous cloud or anything)!!!! COME ON, it would be AWESOME.

aknowledgeableperson · Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:05 pm

If you have a cow then have the water coming from the udders or the rear end, brown water that is.

ComandanteCero · Post by **ComandanteCero** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:07 pm

well that's just nasty.....

hehehe

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:20 pm

The new interior entryways on 13th street look great. Very modern looking wood with lights underneath. I'll try and get a photo if it gets about freezing anyday.

Reading in Ingrams they were talking about the new improved Bartle and how there will be a 3 story glass entryway which will serve as the primary entrance on 14th street. Acting as a bookend on 14th, with the other bookend being Sprint Center.

Did we already know this? has anybody seen renderings showing this entryway? Sounds cool.

GRID · Post by **GRID** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:23 pm

KCPowercat wrote:The new interior entryways on 13th street look great. Very modern looking wood with lights underneath. I'll try and get a photo if it gets about freezing anyday.

Reading in Ingrams they were talking about the new improved Bartle and how there will be a 3 story glass entryway which will serve as the primary entrance on 14th street. Acting as a bookend on 14th, with the other bookend being Sprint Center.

Did we already know this? has anybody seen renderings showing this entryway? Sounds cool.

It's been mentioned several times, I have not seen a good rendering of it though.

Pork Chop · Post by **Pork Chop** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:58 pm

KC will unveil convention center's 'extreme makeover'

To bring the city's convention facilities up to par with the other high-quality facets of Downtown's renaissance, architects and tourism officials began interviewing meeting planners and touring updated convention facilities throughout the country in 2003.

Rick Hughes, president of the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City, was among the group that toured facilities in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and San Diego.

None of those facilities can match the high-end finishes that have been added to all 25 meeting rooms in Kansas City's convention complex, Hughes said.

"It's been a huge and total transformation," said Todd Achelpohl, HNTB director of design.

Gone are the concrete-block and tacky carpet-tile walls, gray terrazzo floors and unsightly overhead ducts, conduit and plumbing that used to greet visitors, he said.

In their place, Achelpohl said, are "hotel-like" finishes -- from wood doors to designer carpeting to granite bathroom counters -- that the convention industry is gravitating toward.

http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansa ... st=b_ln_hl

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:05 pm

Sample of what the makeover looks like

I'm really impressed by it. Love the wood with light underneath it. Wish I had a shot of the before now.