The skyline thread

[dmccall]

[architect77]

after reading city-data.com for six months, i've concluded that so many new yorkers are moving down to the tarheel state that nc is now the city's 6th borough. therefore you might like to see the latest renderings for the world trade center site;

[DanRNC]

^Not all that impressed with the new World Trade Center buildings.

[DPK]

^Not all that impressed with the new World Trade Center buildings.

[Redman84]

after reading city-data.com for six months, i've concluded that so many new yorkers are moving down to the tarheel state that nc is now the city's 6th borough

[RDUairport]

I've also seen a ton of New York plate down here recently. I hear we get an average of 65 people moving to Raleigh everyday, so I guess that would help explain such large numbers. To be honest I like the two taller towers. The tallest is simple but its got flash i think. The second tallest is sort of unique I think, but with the rest I would agree.

[urbanvb]

I heard 98 per day but either way its a lot.

[DanRNC]

^Remember those are most likely either western NYers (a completely different breed) or Long Islanders. Not many city folk are relocating here.

[ChiefJoJo]

FYI, I saw that Flash has updated his skyline renderings:

[DwnTwnRaleighGuy]

FYI, I saw that Flash has updated his skyline renderings:

[RiverwoodCLT]

Boy that looks good. Raleigh will not look like a small town any more.

Now if we could Greensboro and Winston Salem to add a few towers. I would love to see all big metros in NC to light it up with some out standing towers.

[Gard]

Thanks for posting the pics!!! That makes me all that much more excited to see the buildings in the rendering go up.

[cophead567]

i just got back from the boylan ave bridge to test out my new camera. very happy with the results, check this.

The pic is large (2.5 meg) so here's a link to not slow down people's browser

[urbanvb]

niiice.

[waynehead]

what's the dark shadow behind and in between the rbc building and the bb&t building?

[Gard]

what's the dark shadow behind and in between the rbc building and the bb&t building?

[waynehead]

btw the raleigh skyline was featured on the front page of yahoo.com for a while next to a story about the cities in the US with the best job market. It was cool to see.

[ncwebguy]

It is a different view of the skyline, but Google has updated their downtown Raleigh images.

It shows the convention center/hotel/west side access, RBC Plaza, 222 Glenwood and West at North under construction. It now shows the completed Palladium Plaza, land clearded out for the Edison, and the completed Carlton Place. From the cleared out Gordon Smith block and untouched Hue parking lot, the pictures were taken somewhere between mid May and early October. Due to work I did on my house, I can narrow the pictures' window down to before mid-August LOL.

[rjckooz]

I was recently driving around downtown and it looked like BB&T got a massive new sign on their tower.

I don't know if I'm losing my mind or what, but it was huge compared to what I remembered it as (even more disconcerting since I go downtown a lot).

Can anyone confirm this?

[cophead567]

I was recently driving around downtown and it looked like BB&T got a massive new sign on their tower.

I don't know if I'm losing my mind or what, but it was huge compared to what I remembered it as (even more disconcerting since I go downtown a lot).

Can anyone confirm this?

[Jones_]

I can't confirm but noticed the BB&T logo from Lake Wheeler for the first time ever so sounds like good to me.

[DanRNC]

Here is a WRAL story on the continued growth of DT Raleigh. It looks like the grading of Site 1 is progressing quickly.

Story

[Gard]

Article this morning in the N&O starting a series of articles of the skylines of the triangle. There is one mistake in the article, however....it lists Soliel Center as the tallest building, which is actually RBC now .

http://www.newsobserver.com/2785/story/963096.html

[Atlside]

Feb 25, 2008

Triangle skylines evolve

Matthew Eisley, Staff Writer

The News & Observer

Picturing the Triangle isn't as easy as, say, picturing Atlanta, Richmond, Nashville or Charlotte.

The Triangle isn't just one place, one skyline. It's Raleigh-Durham-Cary-Chapel Hill and at least a dozen other towns sharing highways and hyphens.

Today, The News & Observer begins an occasional series that will assess significant new buildings as they open. With the series, Marvin Malecha, dean of N.C. State University's College of Design, will provide a design perspective.

Full article

http://www.newsobserver.com/2785/story/963096.html

[Gard]

Article this morning in the N&O on how the change in city ordinance on signs is spurring the placements of signs on top of buildings downtown. It says there is at least one coming for the Wachovia Capitol Center too

http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/991222.html