Charlotte Photo of the Day

[Urbanity]

^cool pic - it almost looks like a watercolor painting.

[CLTNative]

Cool pic I found from Facebook. There is a high resolution version available from CCCP.

[SentioVenia]

^^^Looks like they Photoshopped the crane out of the Handle.

[CLTNative]

^^^Looks like they Photoshopped the crane out of the Handle.

The permanent crane wasnt in the 'Handle' yet, that was Thanksgiving.

Here is another from today...

[CLTNative]

Cool Pano from today from 3rd Ward:

[JerseyBoy]

Cool Pano from today from 3rd Ward:

Cool indeed, but that's a pretty bad stitching job for a photo released by an agency as promo material.

[15895]

Cool indeed, but that's a pretty bad stitching job for a photo released by an agency as promo material.

looks like Interstate and Catalyst are falling down. Nice pic though

Edited March 5, 2010 by AirNostrumMAD

[Munson79]

Has anyone seen this one? I'm probably way behind on this, but if you haven't seen it, it's pretty cool.

http://marynewsom.blogspot.com/2010/03/extremely-cool-charlotte-urban-video.html

[InitialD]

Skyline from N Wendover Rd. next to the Habitat ReStore

[krazeeboi]

Beautiful perspective and a beautiful shot.

[qcnative2469]

Beautiful perspective and a beautiful shot.

I cant get over how badly the crane in the handle looks.

[InitialD]

Full size image

[tozmervo]

Hah. I totally found myself in that photo.

[PeytonC]

Something a little different

[ScottCLT]

Something a little different

Great photo! Charlotte is beautiful in the Spring!

[krazeeboi]

Beautiful shot PeytonC!

[New Name]

Here's a pre-game warm-up shot from the Catwalk... get it... Bob-cat-walk.....uhhhh, yeah.

[Spartan]

Here's one from a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad this picture can't be recreated for another 10 or 11 months

[krazeeboi]

[abttown]

I guess this is the right topic for this, but came across a video last night and thought it was pretty neat. Cool images of the city you don't usually see and nice perspective on which surface lots need to be developed (like you didn't already know).

Skyline

[cltheel.sdl]

^ Nice video! Here's another from above the BofA CC:

[krazeeboi]

I guess this is the right topic for this, but came across a video last night and thought it was pretty neat. Cool images of the city you don't usually see and nice perspective on which surface lots need to be developed (like you didn't already know).

Skyline

Yeah, it did get a little depressing around the 0:22 mark, but overall, it's a great vid.

[NcSc74]

Yeah, it did get a little depressing around the 0:22 mark, but overall, it's a great vid.

Yeah overall Iwas impressed but there is still improvements that can be made. Fortunately it doesnt involove any tall towers IMO. Charlotte has impressive height now all it needs is the infill around uptown to bring all together. If that happens I would be ready to bump the QC up a notch.

[Urbanity]

Re: 0:22 mark in video and subsequent comments which I assume are all about the parking lots in the video. I think it's actually a decent "problem" for a growing city (or a city with growth ambitions) to have.

I think it is in our favor that we have enough blank canvas some real planning and design that could markedly improve the vibe of Uptown beyond Tryon St. Granted smart planning can be done with already full blocks but it is much harder.

Also as NcSc74 noted we don't really have any major issues in our skyline with the existing tall towers. We could be in a worse state and have something like this: http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/90538516.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=A7B69CF049AC9005AA51592DE4BCC5BBC78CC4B90467E196E231B4E1D96DD34E

For those who don't know that strip of Avenue of the Americas/6th Avenue, there are about 5 towers that all have basically the exact same bland design and height. Even worse, we could have the Albany Empire Plaza: http://blog.timesuni...state-plaza.jpg

I sure as heck wouldn't mind seeing some infill in those parking lots, but I don't want that at the expense of well designed and placed buildings/streetscape.

Just my 2 cents.

Edited April 9, 2010 by Urbanity

[InitialD]

Yes! You are so right! Thankfully we missed most of the ugly international style superblocks or whatever it was. I like Atlanta's skyline, but downtown has those ugly seven matching beige boxes. I like Atlanta's midtown skyline better than their downtown skyline thanks to a better diversity of buildings.