The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust today announced plans for a $460 million housing development that will link the Downtown Cultural District with the Allegheny riverfront... Post Gazette
The development, which features 700 rental and condominium units, will be along Fort Duquesne Boulevard between Seventh and Ninth streets. Parking lots currently dominate the area.
A central design feature will be a boulevard featuring art galleries and other amenities designed to attract Pittsburgh visitors as well as Downtown residents. The boulevard will extend to Fort Duquesne Boulevard and down to the river through a new, park-like riverfront access.
Fort Duquesne Boulevard will get some new pedestrian controls. The 10th Street Bypass, which sits below Fort Duquesne Boulevard next to the river, would not be closed, but it would be covered by a deck on which the new riverfront access would be built.
After a design competition lasting several months, the Cultural Trust chose a proposal from an alliance known as RiverParc. It includes Concord Eastridge, of Washington, D.C., as the lead developer with a design team led by Stefan Behnisch, Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany/Venice, Calif.; Adrian DiCastri, architectsAlliance, Toronto, Canada; Oliver Schulze, Gehl Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Richard DeYoung, WTW Architects, Pittsburgh.
Parking spaces for 1,500 cars will be scattered throughout the area.
Construction is to begin in summer 2007 and last for several years.
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From the looks of their other built projects and the way the use glass, I wouldnt be surprised if the final product isn't far off from the very ephemeral quality of the renderings. I'll be interested to see this project take shape...unless they cut the budget....or pull a Frank "I Heart Brooklyn But Not Really" Gehry
Barett you are right, i just dont understand how stupid developers and competition jury can buy the ephermeral quality of renderings like these..its a total farce
I guess the architects and developers know how to build those paper-thin floor slabs, invisible railings, and floating floors!
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