Raleigh Skyline

[Jones_]

Nice job getting some shots before the wildfire smoke drifted in! The sky looks a lot different today... 

[KJHburg]

a couple of skyline shots from various angles today. 3rd photo is unique condo or apartment tower not sure the name or even what street I was on LOL.  It is just west of downtown maybe Martin Street. 

[Justin6882]

That's Bloomsbury Estates - originally there were supposed to be two of them. The recession killed the second one.

[Jones_]

Corner of Boylan and Hargett. The final nail in the second one's coffin was the widening of the railroad right of way which required obtaining enough of this property to make the setback impossible to maintain. I imagine that one day a second building of some sort will materialize. 

[KJHburg]

Downtown Raleigh today my friend was in town and he is a pro. 

[KJHburg]

and later in the day a little rainy. 

[DwnTwnRaleighGuy]

And windy it would appear...

[RALNATIVE]

I was out at Dix park around dusk and there was a huge rainbow that ended right on top of PNC tower. It was a stunning view. Didn't have my camera or phone with me, or I would have captured a shot and posted it here.

[Hunted]

Photo was taken next to the Bloomsbury Estates overlooking the future Union Station.

[KJHburg]

Not the best day for photos but it is was it is. Today downtown. Stopped at one of the best places on the edge of downtown. Man is that Reeses peanut butter cup donut great! 

[Jones_]

Pivot about a half step left in your Krispy Kreme shot and you'll see my car camped out on Boundary St. 

Thanks for the pics. 

[MireLanski]

Pivot half a step to the right and you'd see one of my cars parked on Peace Street.  I live in the townhomes behind the KK sign.

[KJHburg]

I was actually sent up from Charlotte to spy on Raleigh UPers LOL just posing a tourist 

[InitialD]

[Jones_]

6 hours ago, MireLanski said:

Pivot half a step to the right and you'd see one of my cars parked on Peace Street.  I live in the townhomes behind the KK sign.

Ah, ok...I was trying to remember who was on here that lived there...I remember the construction delay conversation we had back then and was wondering...was it worth the wait? I felt bad for you back then. Hope it's all going well now. I walk past there daily from Boundary to my office in the Archdale (I'm too cheap to pay $10 a month for a parking space in a State lot, lol) and it's much nicer to walk past civilization instead of a motor fleet parking lot. 

[InitialD]

Anybody else a bit disappointed in how Union station looks from this angle? I know the back side, but still it could look a lot better:

 

Photo via https://www.facebook.com/OakCityHustle/

[Jones_]

It's like architects can only see the "front" of a building anymore. The AIA headquarters on Peace infuriates me every time I walk past it because it straight up ignores that Peace St is even there. Same brown pressed metal sheets as looks like are on the back on Union. 

[DPK]

7 hours ago, Jones_ said:

It's like architects can only see the "front" of a building anymore. The AIA headquarters on Peace infuriates me every time I walk past it because it straight up ignores that Peace St is even there. Same brown pressed metal sheets as looks like are on the back on Union. 

I used to live across from that thing and had to drive past it every day.  That building is the worst thing ever in terms of embracing pedestrian connectivity, considering it's the AIA headquarters.

[InitialD]

14 hours ago, DPK said:

I used to live across from that thing and had to drive past it every day.  That building is the worst thing ever in terms of embracing pedestrian connectivity, considering it's the AIA headquarters.

It's got that "shipping container chic" look going, just like the brown metal (it looks metallic?) on the backside of Union Station. Also on the backside of the Dillon apartments, which can be seen very well from the Dillon webcam (https://app.oxblue.com/open/clancytheys/thedillon ). I know it's the backside, but it's still very visible from many areas so I wish they'd used brick all the way around. I guess that new "shipping container brown" is the new EIFS stucco. 

[Jones_]

Frank Lloyd Wright was very much about getting away from the City. His designs, while pretty cool and have lots of fans, are firmly entrenched in suburban style existence. To this day, anything modernist seems like it carries on that idea, and the AIA hq is exhibit A. 

Edited September 28, 2017 by Jones_

[KJHburg]

Couple skyline shots of downtown Raleigh from today from various places.

 

[RALNATIVE]

On 7/9/2019 at 5:37 PM, KJHburg said:

Couple skyline shots of downtown Raleigh from today from various places.

 

 

Even though I wished that Charter Square North were taller, it has made a bigger impact on the skyline than I expected from that angle in the first photo.

[KJHburg]

Good morning Raleigh.  Today. 

[KJHburg]

Miscellaneous downtown Raleigh photos today including the newly renovated Moore Square park.  Downtown Raleigh has a great mix of high rises, low rise blocks, midrises etc.  

[po-boy]

I really like the view of Skyhouse, PNC, and Red Hat from the new Moore Square. 

Would be great to get some more towers to fill it out and layer the view more.