Church Street Plaza | 28-Story Office/Hotel [Phase 1 Under Construction]

[prahaboheme 1658]

3 hours ago, HankStrong said:

https://orlandoretro.com/2013/05/19/the-round-building-orange-ave-and-south-st/

 

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I'd rather discuss low wages than your irrational disdain for the brise soliel!

3 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

Just imagine Cheyenne with a brise soleil!

Remember the "save the brise soleil" movement? There were some interesting proposals.

[spenser1058 5353]

50 minutes ago, prahaboheme said:

I'd rather discuss low wages than your irrational disdain for the brise soliel!

and low educational standards - don't forget the low educational standards!

*takes a meeting with the hs football coach*

I really do hope they find a use for them - they're sort of our own Stonehenge moment.

Edited May 15, 2018 by spenser1058

[HankStrong 1942]

55 minutes ago, spenser1058 said:

It seems to have gone off to some warehouse like the Morse's neon signs to be mentioned once a decade but otherwise never to be seen again.

Thank all that is holy for that!

[codypet 1594]

1 hour ago, spenser1058 said:

It seems to have gone off to some warehouse like the Morse's neon signs to be mentioned once a decade but otherwise never to be seen again.

Not a warehouse.   Here

[JFW657 4539]

5 minutes ago, codypet said:

Not a warehouse.   Here

Looks like old bones. Skeletal remains.

[prahaboheme 1658]

49 minutes ago, spenser1058 said:

and low educational standards - don't forget the low educational standards!

*takes a meeting with the ha football coach*

I really do hope they find a use for them - they're sort of our own Stonehenge moment.

I vaguely remember a proposal to use the brise soleil as shade cover for a SunRail platform. That would have been the most fabulous albeit ridiculous train platform of all time.

[JFW657 4539]

5 minutes ago, prahaboheme said:

I vaguely remember a proposal to use the brise soleil as shade cover for a SunRail platform. That would have been the most fabulous albeit ridiculous train platform of all time.

I suggest putting it on top of some future downtown high-rise as a roof feature.

Assemble them in a kind of pergola configuration.

Edited May 15, 2018 by JFW657

[spenser1058 5353]

13 minutes ago, prahaboheme said:

I vaguely remember a proposal to use the brise soleil as shade cover for a SunRail platform. That would have been the most fabulous albeit ridiculous train platform of all time.

Talk about overengineering! Personally, I lean towards a round 7-Eleven built with them just for  Hank.

Seriously, though, if OMA ever builds downtown, I would like to use them for that. Or maybe if OC ever invests in a new building instead of buying Class C office space.

[I am Reality 196]

2 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

and low educational standards - don't forget the low educational standards!

*takes a meeting with the hs football coach*

I really do hope they find a use for them - they're sort of our own Stonehenge moment.

You're surely not making a joke about the school meeting I had about my special-needs child, are you?

Even after I explained the meeting.

Do you really find that appropriate Spenser? 

 

 

[HankStrong 1942]

2 hours ago, prahaboheme said:

I vaguely remember a proposal to use the brise soleil as shade cover for a SunRail platform. That would have been the most fabulous albeit ridiculous train platform of all time.

There is a perfect spot for it at the Orange County DUMP!

[WAJAS 371]

I hope it is used for some sort of shade structure in one of the parks at Creative Village and/or UCF Downtown.

[W7edwin 369]

i thought those pieces were in an actual warehouse stacked in a corner, not on a random place [is that a water treatment facility??] dumped south of the airport.. thats embarrassing lmao

[codypet 1594]

When I was out there the foreman of Conserv told me they just came in and dumped them there and all of them are pretty badly damaged.   He didn't know what was gonna happen to them.  Almost 3 years later they're still out there.

Edited May 16, 2018 by codypet

[jgardnerucf 512]

I'm sure years worth of lawnmower bashings intos chipped 'em up. 

[popsiclebrandon 798]

Time for a heist.

[AndyPok1 992]

On 5/15/2018 at 10:59 AM, spenser1058 said:

It seems to have gone off to some warehouse like the Morse's neon signs to be mentioned once a decade but otherwise never to be seen again.

I'm sure they've caught on by now, but every time I'm in WP, I go into the Morse Museum and find an excuse to leave a comment card saying they need to display the neon signs and leave.

[HankStrong 1942]

Oddly, there is a quick service restaurant that I do that with about their horrible, blaring music.  Every single time I go, I do their web survey and note the music sucking.

It's also only THAT particular location.

Edited May 17, 2018 by HankStrong

[DreS0803 341]

Any update on SunTrust or other new tenants?

[orange87 750]

This is now taller than I-4.

[RedStar25 312]

I kinda noticed that this afternoon. It's starting to keep up at the I-4 level. 

[Urban25 60]

[jrs2 2380]

[orange87 750]

I think this will possibly have an even bigger impact than the SunTrust building (from I-4 anyway). I drove past it going south on I-4, and even at only four stories so far it's presence was already felt. This is going to tower over I-4 when completed.

Edited June 1, 2018 by orange87

[nite owℓ 1010]

With as much emphasis the city put on the developer to make this building an amazing gateway gem, I really hope the city does some serious streetscaping in the immediate vicinity to spruce the place up a bit. With the half arsed retention pond right across the street, unsightly rural-looking berms, back end of city commons parking garage (with no artwork) etc it's almost hypocritical for the city to ask the developer to come up with a flashy building for such a rough looking area without contributing anything.

Edited June 1, 2018 by nite owℓ

[metal93 244]

Agreed. The massive garage wall I feel would be a great place to put in some kind of green wall or screens to grow vines on, especially being in close proximity to a soon to be massive highway interchange where carbon capture would really help. That's the least the city could do.

FDOT needs to make that unsightly pond into a park or something. It's been done plenty of times in other places. But that's something FDOT won't do. How much water does the thing really collect anyways? I can't remember how it must have looked after Irma.