Charlotte Photo of the Day

[JacksonH]

28 minutes ago, Jasons0013 said:

 There are way too many prime locations to build here .  Once land is at a premium, I think they will start getting higher.  We are nowhere close to this in my opinion.

I agree.  There is still an abundance of prime property in UT.  The "building higher" in the past was not because of a lack of land, it was because of a war of egos between NCNB/NationsBank and First Union.  They didn't have to build so tall, they just chose to in a show of muscle flexing.

[KJHburg]

Well Wells doesn't play that game anyway.   I did some quick research guess where the tallest Wells tower is at?     Can you say the 992 foot tall Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Houston! 

I think we need a lot more 500-800 foot tall towers and eventually we will get there (a new tallest) Plus we have acres and acres of vacant land or underutilized land to go through first within the loop. 

[SydneyCarton]

7 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

Well Wells doesn't play that game anyway.   I did some quick research guess where the tallest Wells tower is at?     Can you say the 992 foot tall Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Houston! 

I think we need a lot more 500-800 foot tall towers and eventually we will get there (a new tallest) Plus we have acres and acres of vacant land or underutilized land to go through first within the loop. 

Wells bought a 500,000 sf condo at 30 Hudson Yards in NY, which is 1.295’, but it doesn’t have naming rights since Warner Media (f/k/a Time Warner) is the biggest tenant.

Charlotte’s day for a supertall will come.  For now, I hope for a spectacular 650-750’ design for the new Duke HQ.

[Guest]

WARNING RDF missed his nap. So let me just say this.

Unless Charlotte goes through another sort of financial Gilded Age, like the late 80s early 90s were, where people flop their phallus' around, trying to figure out who's is bigger, Bofa Corp Center will not be surpassed. Not in today's climate, where companies are cheap, and incredibly public facing. Not before uptown loses all of its under utilized and unutilized land, and honestly not before Charlotte has beach front property because of melting ice caps. All of Charlotte's super companies, and the new one, are embroiled in some sort of controversy, and all would look bad if they put up a super tower. Also, I think people glossed over it when I said it gets exponentially more expensive, not incrementally more expensive to build taller than 25 floors. 

Offices turned into cubicles, and then into open floor plan stations. People are condensing, downsizing, putting people in a box. It's easy, it's efficient, and it doesn't make waves. Thats the future. 

Now downvote away.

Personally I'd rather 30-45 floor buildings with added cultural attractions built to go along with the buildings. Look at what Wells Fargo did with Duke Energy Center. Theres Two Museums and a 1100 Seat Theatre, that contributes 1 billion times more to the vitality of the city than a 1,200 ft tower.

 

Edited February 20, 2019 by Guest

[SydneyCarton]

12 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

So let me just say this.

Unless Charlotte goes through another sort of financial Gilded Age, like the late 80s early 90s were, where people flop their phallus' around, trying to figure out who's is bigger, Bofa Corp Center will not be surpassed. Not in today's climate, where companies are cheap, and incredibly public facing. Not before uptown loses all of its under utilized and unutilized land, and honestly not before Charlotte has beach front property because of melting ice caps. All of Charlotte's super companies, and the new one, are embroiled in some sort of controversy, and all would look bad if they put up a super tower. Also, I think people glossed over it when I said it gets exponentially more expensive, not incrementally more expensive to build taller than 25 floors. 

Offices turned into cubicles, and then into open floor offices. People are condensing, downsizing, putting people in a box. It's easy, it's efficient, and it doesn't make waves. Thats the future. 

Now downvote away.

Personally I'd rather 30-45 floor buildings with added cultural attractions built to go along with the buildings. Look at what Wells Fargo did with Duke Energy Center. Theres Two Museums and a 1100 Seat Theatre, that contributes 1 billion times more to the vitality of the city than a 1,200 ft tower.

With that in mind, do you have any insight into whether the new Duke HQ will be conservative and utilitarian or if its design will be bold?

It seems that this architecture firm does pretty nice work.

[J-Rob]

16 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Also, I think people glossed over it when I said it gets exponentially more expensive, not incrementally more expensive to build taller than 25 floors. 

Offices turned into cubicles, and then into open floor offices. People are condensing, downsizing, putting people in a box. It's easy, it's efficient, and it doesn't make waves. Thats the future. 

Now downvote away.

Personally I'd rather 30-45 floor buildings with added cultural attractions built to go along with the buildings. Look at what Wells Fargo did with Duke Energy Center. Theres Two Museums and a 1100 Seat Theatre, that contributes 1 billion times more to the vitality of the city than a 1,200 ft tower.

This is actually more exciting to me than the thought of a 1,000 footer.  I would rather the surface lots be used up than a 1,000 footer be added to Uptown.  Just as an example, I know everyone has mentioned NCRR is holding on to their lot for appreciation or whatever, but I hate that lot.  It is so underutilized, and it is the perfect spot for 40-floor building.  Regarding the comment about being exponentially more expensive to go above 25 floors, I think this works in Uptown's favor.  Maybe we get two or three towers out of some of these newer companies, rather than just one, which would increase density and vitality.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

With that in mind, do you have any insight into whether the new Duke HQ will be conservative and utilitarian or if its design will be bold?

It seems that this architecture firm does pretty nice work.

tvs design does great work, but I know the original design came up well over budget. I imagine a box with embellishments. Maybe they saw my version and will get some ideas, who knows.

[SydneyCarton]

8 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

tvs design does great work, but I know the original design came up well over budget. I imagine a box with embellishments. Maybe they saw my version and will get some ideas, who knows.

Thanks.

Ally/Tryon is a box with embellishments, and it will look great, so I guess we can reasonably hope for something good.

Edited February 20, 2019 by SydneyCarton

[Guest]

1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

Thanks.

Ally/Tryon is a box with embellishments, and it will look great, so I guess we can reasonably hope for something good.

I think you can reasonably expect 200-300 feet taller than Ally.  And by embellishments i mean ones that pierce the sky.

Edited February 20, 2019 by Guest

[SydneyCarton]

7 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

I think you can reasonably expect 200-300 feet taller than Ally.  And by embellishments i mean ones that pierce the sky.

Thanks.

That sounds promising.

[JorgiPorgi]

12 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

I think you can reasonably expect 200-300 feet taller than Ally.  And by embellishments i mean ones that pierce the sky.

Box with embellishments- hopefully we can get a recreation of this Icon:

[Tyrone Wiggum]

1 hour ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

WARNING RDF missed his nap:

Also, 

48 minutes ago, JorgiPorgi said:

Box with embellishments- hopefully we can get a recreation of this Icon:

[SydneyCarton]

This is a striking box with vertical embellishments.

 

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

This is a striking box with vertical embellishments.

 

 

Nah, won't look like that. 

[SydneyCarton]

13 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

Nah, won't look like that. 

I can’t wait to see the renderings.

[Crucial_Infra]

^Won’t be long. March 1st. Same day they have the groundbreaking ceremony. (I don’t know to do blue font)

Edited February 21, 2019 by Crucial_Infra

[KJHburg]

It will be after March 5 when the new design is launched.  Why then?  I will have started my Texcation by then.  Legacy 2 design dropped when I was out of town.  the news of the Duke Tower dropped when I was out of town. 

[videtur quam contuor]

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(Unless your comment was meant ironically about not knowing...never mind, this reads as a pedant Have I been pwnd)

[11 HouseBZ]

Eat at Whataburger for me KJ. If you go through east Texas, eat at Bodacious BBQ for me. 

[King of the Queen City]

5 hours ago, Crucial_Infra said:

^Won’t be long. March 1st. Same day they have the groundbreaking ceremony. (I don’t know to do blue font)

As long as they don’t do it on April 1st to leave us wondering if it is an April Fool’s joke... of course, that would give them a way to correct course if it isn’t well received. “Oh, you don’t like it? That was actually an April Fool’s joke, here is the real design!”

[KJHburg]

This is my photo of the day this strangle heavenly orb that appeared for the first time since last Friday.  El Sol, the sun, le soleil, Die Sonne   It brought warmth to the earth below too. 

 

 

 

[Crucial_Infra]

Skyline getting it’s green on tonight via WSOC 

[King of the Queen City]

A salute to Charlotte native Billy Graham on the first anniversary of his passing, plus the first time we’ve seen the sun in a while!

[KJHburg]

This is my photo of the day and week another NC leading edge technology from the state that invented Astroturf  the Rain plow!

from Twitter from Eddie Fox in Asheville #1 radio personality in western NC

 

[SydneyCarton]