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It may have started as a museum, but the largest amount of money for that project will come from condo sales, not admission prices at a museum. My apologies for the statement in question here. I guess I should've said the biggest thing about that projects money flow is the residential part, not the museum.
that may not be true. the multi million dollar peices of art on display and the Fine Arts Masters program with Uofl, as well as the stores and resturaunts will generate a lot of money as well.
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Let's not forget that the first and foremost useage of MP is residential. The museum is the added bonus of some crazy-minded "skylobby". The arguments can go either way, but 40 years from now, which tower will be better looked at as defining a period in time for a city? MP or Signature Tower? The choice is clear if history is any indication as to what the future will be. Different strokes for different folks I guess, LOL!!! Agree to disagree (somewhat)?
I will be excitied about a "modern" museum in Nashville, but will I fall over my doorstep to go to see it? Probably not. That isn't my thing though. To me, art is what you make of it and how "it" is perceived by ones self. Not by being the most bold, flamboyant, and out of place thing in the skyline. Show me how the base of MP works for the better good of pedestrians and I may cut it some slack. Otherwise......well nevermind. It's late and my brain hurts. LOL!!!
thats not true. It started as a museum.
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i was downtown today so i went back to the exhibit for some more shots. sorry for the copyrights, i batch frame all my photos and thecopyright is automatically added to each photo.
this was one of the previous deisgns
close up of the base
these were trial designs i suppose.
going east on the freeway...this will be an amazing view.
very close- close up...you can see little people in the windows lol
view from the south
looks like its angeled perfectly with humana and the aegon tower.
from the east
thats all folks
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well good for him
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Someone brought this up in the newsgroup misc.transport.road, with the theme that Museum Plaza looks like one of those arco's out of Sim City 2000.
....wha?
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only 7 replies? Tennesee is really out doing us on this topic lol
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You beat me to it
I am thinking of going there next week, probably Thursday, to check out this project and its location. Anybody want to do an impromtu-meet?
i'll be there
....wha?
Museum Plaza
in Kentucky
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looks like things are moving along
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When the radical design for Museum Plaza was unveiled in February, it caused a stir in architectural circles worldwide -- the celebrity architect and urban thinker Rem Koolhaas was proposing an unusual skyscraper for Louisville.
In reality, Koolhaas had no role in the design. A young team of architects running his New York City office, headed by Joshua Prince Ramus, did all the work.
Now, Ramus, 36, and his co-workers, including Erez Ella, 35, are breaking from Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to form their own firm -- Ramus Ella Architects, or REX.
The split, being announced today, is effective immediately.
Though Museum Plaza will lose the star power of the Koolhaas name, the developers said it will not affect the proposed 61-story high-rise.
Groundbreaking is planned for early next year.
The developers recently announced they've hired Minneapolis-based Mortenson Co., which built the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as construction manager.
"It's a nonissue to us," said Steve Poe, who is developing Museum Plaza with attorney Craig Greenberg and husband and wife Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown. "Our mission in the beginning was to find the new young, cutting-edge architect.