Travel observations and new developments of other cities and countries

[smeagolsfree]

Brooklyn’s Tallest Skyscraper Developer Defaults on $240M Loan: 93-Story Building Faces Foreclosure (msn.com)

I wonder how the other towers in NYC are doing????

[markhollin]

Oklahoma City (courtesy of Terry Long):

[markhollin]

Queens, New York City:

[markhollin]

San Francisco, Salesforce Park:

[chc3]

Views of Tempe from Tempe Butte this morning and eclipse watchers on the ASU campus. Valley Metro light rail activity can also be seen.

[smeagolsfree]

I drove up to Evansville to watch the eclipse. The skies were mostly clear, so I had a good view of it. The traffic on the way back was horrendous. I didn't even get on I 24 as I was on back roads from Pennyrile Parkway to back home. Drove under I 24 and it was a parking lot just before exit 24.

[downtownresident]

We had a clear view of the total solar eclipse here in Dallas! We were able to set up in the park across the street, and the clouds dissipated right before totality. We had enough breaks in the clouds see the partial eclipse before totality. 

[BnaBreaker]

Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina 

 

[chc3]

I was in Sarajevo in early August 2018. Hiked up to the 1984 Winter Olympics venue and snapped pics of ruins from the Serb siege of the early 90s. The Latin Bridge is where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in June 1914..

Edited April 11 by chc3

[smeagolsfree]

You just changed the dates of WWI Charles! LOL

[BnaBreaker]

9 hours ago, chc3 said:

I was in Sarajevo in early August 2018. Hiked up to the 1984 Winter Olympics venue and snapped pics of ruins from the Serb siege of the early 90s. The Latin Bridge is where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in June 2014

Beautiful and sobering all at the same time... thank you for sharing your photos and your experience.  I was in Bosnia in 2018 as well coincidentally, and wanted to make it to Sarajevo badly but could only manage to budget time to make it into Bosnia as far as Mostar because Croatia/Montenegro were really the primary focus of our trip, and so we flew into Zagreb and primarily stuck to the coast.  One of these days I hope to make it to the interior of the Balkans!

Edited April 10 by BnaBreaker

[chc3]

22 hours ago, smeagolsfree said:

You just changed the dates of WWI Charles! LOL

Great catch, Ron!

[markhollin]

Boston:

[markhollin]

Tokyo's Sky Tree illuminated for Valentine's day with a crescent Moon exactly on top:

[markhollin]

Philadelphia's rendering for 2301 JFK Blvd., 23 stories, 307', 287 units (courtesy of YIMBY Philadelphia):
 

[nashville born]

Long post alert!  Pictures from NYC in February, four European cities in March, and Las Vegas last weekend.

NYC

From atop the ESB looking toward billionaire row

New Year's Eve ball taking it easy as seen from my hotel room

View from Bryant Park

Thought the Bank of China tower was interesting with its alternating concave cutouts

Hudson Yards from atop the ESB

Budapest, Hungary

Parliament building from Pest side

Parliament building from Danube at night

Street scape from city center on the Buda side

Budapest was devoid of modern towers save for this one

Vienna, Austria

City Center views

By contrast, Vienna had many modern towers.  It had some in a variety of areas around the city as well as a skyline grouping.  Apologies for shots taken through bus window.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Old Town views

Ufo Bridge (pronounced oo-fah)

One of a few towers near the train station

Bratislava skyline

Prague, Czech Republic

Presidential Castle grounds

Las Vegas, Nevada

Vies from the High Roller

 

[nashville born]

Pictures courtesy of YIMBY New York.  Updated renders for 350 Park Ave supertall.62 stories, 1,600' office structure will yield 1.8 million square feet of office space with 54% of that space earmarked for Citadel LLC, a hedge fund.

 

 

[Auntie Yock]

^The height is incredible. The base at street level looks cheap and ugly, like plastic containers. Badly needs a redesign there.

[markhollin]

San Jose's renderings for  826 North Winchester Blvd. (17 & 14 tories, 135 units,  25,000 sq. f. of retail, 170 capacity garage):

[markhollin]

Orlando's  W Hotel renderings: 22 stories, 400 rooms, 2,000 capacity concert venue, 400 seat restaurant, 6 story garage (courtesy of YIMBY Florida):

[chc3]

Spent a few days in Amsterdam. Some views from a river cruise and a bike tour. Teeming with tourists. Now in a lovely city in Germany: Münster.

[markhollin]

Berkeley,  California's, renders for 2776 Shattuck Ave. 15 story addition at 199' on top of existing 1906-era 3 story  structure, with 84 new units, 7,650 sq. ft. of retail (courtesy of YIMBY San Fran):

[chc3]

Some views of the delightful city of Münster, a university town in Westphalia. The cages on the steeple of St Lambert’s Church have a macabre history. After the Anabaptist occupation and rebellion was subdued in 1535, the imperial forces under the Hapsburg emperor tortured the ringleaders of the rebellion and then hoisted them in iron cages up the steeple where carrion birds feasted on them. The Anabaptists rejected violence and turned to pacifism soon after.

 

[chc3]

Arrived in Hamburg this afternoon. Partly sunny and in the 40s. Will start warming up by the weekend. Lots to post about this great town, but I thought I’d share some great urban design in the neighborhood where I’m staying, Ottensee. The local market is nicer than Whole Foods. They redeveloped an old gasworks into residential, retail and office. The last picture is my building, which was built in 1898.  Nowhere in Europe, not even in K’yiv and Minsk, do they use poured concrete. All sidewalks are made of pavers. Everything in America is done on the cheap.

[bnacincy]

Was there 30 years ago.....beautiful city.