Travel observations and new developments of other cities and countries

[rolly]

Like someone said, the Jax skyline hasn't changed much, 'cept for a couple tall residentials. 

Finally a new one in the main core. 

[markhollin]

New Orleans:
 

[markhollin]

Baltimore's gorgeous 210 North Charles St. is 15 stories tall and was built in 1894, and bought recently for $6 million it is being converted into residential.
 

[markhollin]

Chicago: one of the finalists in design contest for Hard Rock One Central (courtesy of YIMBY Chicago):

[Binbin98]

On 4/29/2022 at 6:55 AM, markhollin said:

New Orleans:
 

Underrated city

[Binbin98]

Downtown Miami during the day

[nashville born]

 

 

On approach in Philadelphia...

[markhollin]

Austin's updated renderings for The Republic, 48 stories, 709', 833,000 sq. ft:

[nashville born]

That's massive.  And sharp.

[donNdonelson2]

Spent a couple of hours wandering downtown Houston last night after dinner with friends. Most of these photos are near the theatre district. 
 

Jones Hall (home of Houston Symphony) Looking across the plaza of an office building across the street.

 One Shell Plaza

 City Hall and Deloitte Tower 

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. This is where the Broadway tours play in Houston.

 Metro rail train stopped by the Hobby Center.

 LBJ Memorial with Texas Tower looming above.

 Joan Miro sculpture at JP Morgan Chase Bank Tower

 Two photos from sixth floor of Hobby Center parking deck.

 Texas Tower (Mixed use-new and only partially open at this time.)

Edited May 6, 2022 by donNdonelson2
Addition of some photo descriptions

[markhollin]

Auckland, New Zealand:

[MLBrumby]

New Zealand and Australian skylines  punch well above their weight classes. 

[BnaBreaker]

15 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

New Zealand and Australian skylines  punch well above their weight classes. 

Agreed.  I'm a huge fan of the Brissie skyline inparticular

 

Edited May 7, 2022 by BnaBreaker

[markhollin]

Fort Lauderdale's Raintree Riverwalk renderings: 28 & 29 stories, 677 units, 21,000 sq. ft. of retail, 1,075 space garage (courtesy of YIMBY Florida).
 

[markhollin]

Rendering for Boston's 10 World Trade Center, Seaport District, 17 stories:
 

[markhollin]

"Times Square of the South" is coming to Atlanta. Centennial Yards will be 12-15 new city blocks anchored by Centennial Park on the south side of downtown.

6 buildings under design currently – representing approximately 1200 apartments and 600,000 sf. of commercial office space

• Breaking ground on a 232-unit residential building on Mitchell Street designed by Cooper Carry this summer – scheduled to deliver in 2024

• Another 54-unit residential building on Elliott Street designed by Praxis 3 and JW Robinson that is scheduled to break ground in late 2022

• Wild Leap Brew Co. planned opening in the Canyon late summer 2022

• SAP review underway on 290-key hotel – planned groundbreaking early 2023

• Subsurface sewer line infrastructure construction is underway and scheduled to complete by end of 2022

• Nelson Street bridge construction is on track and scheduled to be complete by early 2023

More here:

https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/times-square-of-the-south-coming-to-atlanta/
 

[Rick Dalton]

Doesn’t look like Times Square IMO

[smeagolsfree]

The before and after does not really make sense to me. As usual the artist rendition has everything out of context showing buildings that are currently there with the new building that are supposed to be built. I am unsure what the new is supposed to be. I think the orientation is off unless they are planning on tearing down the Sam Nunn & Richard B Russell Federal Buildings that are showing in the 1st picture.

What is the timeline on the finished buildout on all of this?  That is not mentioned in the article.

[KJHburg]

Hello Nashville.   From your friend Charlotte. 

Today.  Uptown which is inside the freeway loop has the 40 story Duke Energy Plaza under way and 2 hotels.   One shown next to that bright blue metal screening.  the cranes in the foreground are both apartment towers. 

[Rick Dalton]

Charlotte needs a man made lake or something. Some water.

[MLBrumby]

I think it has a manmade "whitewater river". 

[KJHburg]

2 hours ago, natethegreat said:

Charlotte needs a man made lake or something. Some water.

We are like Atlanta we have a major river just west of the city in our case the Catawba, in Atlanta's case the Chattahoochee.  We also have a 32,500 acre lake just 15 miles to the north the largest lake in NC Lake Norman. 

[dxfret]

Manhattan views. 

[nashville born]

16 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Hello Nashville.   From your friend Charlotte. 

Today.  Uptown which is inside the freeway loop has the 40 story Duke Energy Plaza under way and 2 hotels.   One shown next to that bright blue metal screening.  the cranes in the foreground are both apartment towers. 

Nice!  Was just there a few weekends ago for a golf trip.  Got a chance to visit a couple nightlife spots including a rooftop bar downtown!  Was a good time.

[VSRJ]

This is weird, but I don't think I could live in a city that wasn't near/on a body of water, even something small like the Cumberland. There's something special about a skyline overlooking water.