urbanMSP

I'm not sure what you mean by too many materials. Look at everything they're throwing up there: Black stone, wood?, white cement panels, gray/black stripe cladding (?), yellow paint (Uh huh!/ You know what it is!/ Black and yellow/ black and yellow/ black and yellow/ black and yellow!), big rectang...

if you're going to claim bad design this is where you add warrant to your claim, because from a modernist point of of view this is a really great building. You're right, I should explain. FWIW, don't hate it enough to warrant a big fight. While I'm all for modernity, I just think there are way too ...

Yuck. Looks super tacky. Will age quickly. Style and risk always "ages" faster than boring, and are usually the best buildings. Remember buildings in the gateway like the metropolitan building were torn down because short sighted people thought they were "aged". Not your style i...

Yuck. Looks super tacky. Will age quickly.

Still not much going on.

I agree with MNDible. Retail, density, and while the design won't turn heads, it doesn't seem to have an garish or tacky elements. I like it.

Just wanted to say, great post Archiapolis.

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A carpool lane. On Washington. Something tells me they outsourced the details of this rendering.

New property owner, new developer this time around: http://www.southwestjournal.com/news/development/developer-pitches-four-story-apartments-and-retail-at-43rd-upton 4 stories, 29 units, 6,000 square feet of ground floor commercial. Of note, this proposal only includes the former Famous Dave's parc...

Gorgeous photos. Thanks Grant.

Sherman Associates is seeking $316,050 in environmental cleanup funds and $250,000 in transit-oriented development grants:

http://finance-commerce.com/2015/04/min ... in-grants/

That's great about Nighthawk's and all, but I'd like to hear more about Kingfield Softball.

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