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Someone on another forum posted this rendering of Fayetteville St. HQ/hotel combo. I think the scale looks way off, the HQ building is twice as tall as BB&T. Yes it will be a block closer and 10 stories higher, but that looks way exaggerated. I'm no pro, though. Opinions?
It's about a block and a half closer than BB&T from that angle, so even at the same height it would look taller (sort of like how BB&T looks taller than PNC).
BB&T is 2 blocks closer than PNC Plaza and it doesn't seem to rise on the same scale as RCC. I just didn't think a block and a half would make it seem so large. I'm still not convinced haha
That rendering is way off. Those two lots are simply concepts anyways so meh.
Whatever is eventually built at this location will look different than what's shown in the renderings. No need to be worried about this picture. However, I will let the city know that their architect goofed up on the "pictures".
Whatever is eventually built at this location will look different than what's shown in the renderings. No need to be worried about this picture. However, I will let the city know that their architect goofed up on the "pictures".
Yeah I know it's just a render and these buildings were just concepts, but folks are arguing that that is definitely an accurate portrayal of the size. "professional architects" supposedly. I'm not sold lol
Someone on another forum posted this rendering of Fayetteville St. HQ/hotel combo. I think the scale looks way off, the HQ building is twice as tall as BB&T. Yes it will be a block closer and 10 stories higher, but that looks way exaggerated. I'm no pro, though. Opinions?
The BB&T building and the Wells Fargo tower were built while I was at NC State, (1987-1991).
BB&T (Truist) was designed by Gruzen Samton in NY, and I used to work with the lady who heads their interiors dept.
Those of you outside of Raleigh may only see this tower from its broad side elevation, which is ho hum, just ok.
But looking from the West or East, it's an elegant, thin, almost art-deco design.
That thinner elevation was the first to puncture the tree line and be visible briefly in certain spots of West Raleigh, (Avent Ferry, NC State off-campus neighborhoods).
It was a delight, albeit a very small one. I remember a professor from Germany being shocked after seeing a building poke through the trees as he drove down Western Blvd., lol.
Both are 29 floors i believe, and we (friends) snuck in both near the end of construction, even going to the top floor of both buildings one day.
Both towers cost around $30 million each to build around 1990.
The PNC arena was built at a cost of arounc $120 million around the year 2000.
For perspective, the new Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC is expected to cost around $10 billion, which in theory could have built about 80 PNC arenas, lol.
you don't really have to watch the video, but the clips of downtown, show that DT Gboro is tree lined
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