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Old 08-21-2014, 11:38 AM
 
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The idea of architecture is to meet the needs of the customer and what he wants to do, not provide a means of expression for the architect.
Not if you were trained at Georgia Tech. They emphasize artistic creativity in design. They want each building to have some sort of artistic expression. A student's work is subject to a juried viewing in which the structure's design is to be justified to fit its purpose and its surroundings. Students are taught to study the site and even to investigate its history.

That is the idea of architecture.
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Old 09-23-2014, 07:10 PM
 
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Sky Vue, a 14-floor, $50+ million, 389-unit luxury apartment building, will be located between Fifth and Forbes in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood just west of the University of Pittsburgh. The development will also feature a 138-room limited service hotel, street-level retail, 10,000 sq ft of office space and a garage for 363 cars and 131 bikes.

Recent article:

More apartments planned at former Allegheny County health building site in Oakland - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Planning Commission presentation:

http://apps.pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/sch...ion-51-611.pdf

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Old 09-23-2014, 07:38 PM
 
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Sky Vue, a $50+ million, 389-unit luxury apartment building, will be located between Fifth and Forbes in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood just west of the University of Pittsburgh. The development will also feature a 138-room limited service hotel, street-level retail, 10,000 sq ft of office space and a garage for 363 cars and 131 bikes.

Recent article:

More apartments planned at former Allegheny County health building site in Oakland - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Planning Commission presentation:

http://apps.pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/sch...ion-51-611.pdf

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nice! how many floors, and how many feet tall? considered a skyscraper or not?
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Old 09-24-2014, 12:33 PM
 
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nice! how many floors, and how many feet tall? considered a skyscraper or not?
14 is the count as of now.

I imagine that would depend on your personal definition of what constitutes as a "skyscraper".
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Old 09-24-2014, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Western PA
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I wouldn't consider 14 floors a skyscraper. May be one of the taller buildings in Oakland, but not a skyscraper. It wouldn't even be seen in the skyline if it were downtown.
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Old 09-24-2014, 01:51 PM
 
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Still that is one of the chunkiest apartment buildings we'll have seen in a while. DENSE.
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Old 09-24-2014, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Awkward Manor
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I wouldn't consider 14 floors a skyscraper. May be one of the taller buildings in Oakland, but not a skyscraper. It wouldn't even be seen in the skyline if it were downtown.
I believe it would be considered a "high-rise", by Emporis. If I am permitted to refer to them.
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Old 09-24-2014, 02:21 PM
 
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Another famous skyscraper website defines 12 stories and above as "skyscrapers". This is probably due to historical reasons. While most people today would probably have a minimum threshold of 20-stories to consider something a "skyscraper"... Sky Vue in Oakland would most commonly be referred to as a "mid-rise" (or a "high-rise" by small town folk).
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Old 09-24-2014, 02:30 PM
 
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Another famous skyscraper website defines 12 stories and above as "skyscrapers". This is probably due to historical reasons. While most people today would probably have a minimum threshold of 20-stories to consider something a "skyscraper"... Sky Vue in Oakland would most commonly be referred to as a "mid-rise" (or a "high-rise" by small town folk).
Hey now.

It seemed like the E site had overlap between skyscrapers and high-rises, at 20 floors. The lowest height for a skyscrpaer was 330 feet; the highest for a high-rise was 305. This only included buildings in Pittsburgh.
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Old 09-24-2014, 02:49 PM
 
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Hey now.

It seemed like the E site had overlap between skyscrapers and high-rises, at 20 floors. The lowest height for a skyscrpaer was 330 feet; the highest for a high-rise was 305. This only included buildings in Pittsburgh.
I didn't mean to refer to you as small-town folk, doo dah. I'm thinking from my own experience growing up in a small town... the 8-story elderly housing building... by far the tallest building in town... was referred to as "The High Rise". It's a similar phenomenon in a lot of small towns where the skyline is punctuated by a lone elderly housing tower.
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