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Old 12-16-2010, 07:47 AM
 
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Old 12-16-2010, 08:32 AM
 
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I truely wonder if this is going to be the site of a New Office tower....from the Warner Ctr to Wood and from Fifth to Forbes, sound like someone has pretty big plans.
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Old 12-16-2010, 08:35 AM
 
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please please please pleaaaaaaase let it be something game-changing! I really hope it's something iconic.
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Old 12-16-2010, 08:43 AM
 
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please please please pleaaaaaaase let it be something game-changing! I really hope it's something iconic.
Such as?
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Old 12-16-2010, 08:45 AM
 
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Such as?
Something well-designed. RiverParc / 3PNC quality...but larger. A building that doesn't get lost in the skyline. Other than 3PNC, I feel like most of the recent developments downtown have been very bland.
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Old 12-16-2010, 09:36 AM
 
Location: East End of Pittsburgh
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Something well-designed. RiverParc / 3PNC quality...but larger. A building that doesn't get lost in the skyline. Other than 3PNC, I feel like most of the recent developments downtown have been very bland.
I would not consider the convention center, historic preservations of buildings, BNY Mellon Client Service Center, PNC First Side, and the Encore bland..... Considering that most of these projects have some type of LEED certification.
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Old 12-16-2010, 10:58 AM
 
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None of those buildings, save for the convention center, do anything for the skyline. Tall buildings here. And the Encore is extremely bland. It looks like someone took a store from the Waterfront, scaled it up 18 stories and added balconies. You could slap a SpringHill Suites logo on it and it would fit the bill perfectly.

Explain to me what is inspiring to you about this design?

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Old 12-16-2010, 11:46 AM
 
Location: East End of Pittsburgh
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None of those buildings, save for the convention center, do anything for the skyline. Tall buildings here. And the Encore is extremely bland. It looks like someone took a store from the Waterfront, scaled it up 18 stories and added balconies. You could slap a SpringHill Suites logo on it and it would fit the bill perfectly.

Explain to me what is inspiring to you about this design?
It filled in a blank spot alog the riverfront that previously was a not so detailed warehouse. Good point but something is better than nothing. I would like additional super talls as well, but I am just as pleased with the infill projects.
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Old 12-16-2010, 12:55 PM
 
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I wouldn't mind something tall, but I don't want to lose the historic facades, particularly the ones along Forbes to Wood. There is a nearly unbroken like of historic facades from the Allegheny Courthouse and Jail all the way down to Market Square (with the lone exception of the Warner Centre), and also historic facades across Forbes and across Wood from these properties. There are any number of empty or underutilized places to build a new high-rise Downtown, but you can't get back a corridor like that once it is gone.

Fortunately you could probably incorporate savings those facades into a design for a highrise in this plot. And we should demand nothing less.
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:15 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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It filled in a blank spot alog the riverfront that previously was a not so detailed warehouse. Good point but something is better than nothing. I would like additional super talls as well, but I am just as pleased with the infill projects.
I don't buy "something is better than nothing". If you fill downtown with buildings like that, eventually you're out of good space.

That being said, I don't hate the Encore....I just wouldn't call it inspired.
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