Fairly typical Atlanta apartment design (honestly, it looks just like Atlantic Station), and it’s cool they’re integrating the Pei, but is that a giant strip of lawn along Juniper?! Back to the drawing board…
There is so much stuff being planned, built, and remodeled in Midtown I’m literally having to make a chart to keep up with it all. Here’s the before shot of the Hyatt Midtown (nee Hotel Midtown) which is about to be reskinned. Also: the Tenth Street streetscape, apartments proposed for Juniper and North, Emory’s cancer treatment center on the site of Fox Plaza, Skyhouse, 66 12th Street, 100 6th Street, various new/renovated houses south of the park, and I know I’m forgetting more. Exciting times!!
This is such crap. It’s not that hard to do so much better - come on Novare…
100 6th Street
(via Novare Group Reveals ‘100 6th Street’ - Midtown, GA Patch)
What I Saw During An April Ansley Park/Midtown Afternoon Jaunt
It was a gorgeous April day so I leashed up the pooch and walked a block to the food truck gathering at 12th and P’tree for the King of Pop’s Lemon Ricotta pop- my favorite. After that we made our way north to the Peachtree library branch atop MODA where I returned a seriously overdue, not quite finished novel. Decided to turn down 16th Street for a little scenic loop back home. It was there I noticed this garland swag plaque on a cute little 1924 apartment building, which may be just the example I need for a tattoo I go back and forth on wanting. If I’m going to have something permanently inked on my body it’s going to have to perfect, and I’m trying to find a good garland to show my artist.
This little Greek Revival-Revival on Peachtree Circle must be by Ivey and Crook, right? The proportions of that little portico are pitch perfect.
I’m thrilled that this rare Prairie style house is being restored (well, more like reconstructed) but they but sure are taking their time! Its rear facade is perfectly visible from the hole on Peachtree where John Wieland’s condo project died.
Another view of the Prairie.
Are we in Atlanta or Pasadena? Could not get over the beautiful landscaping of this home, especially the climbing roses.
Another beautiful, small yard + a tastefully decorated porch.
I’ve always loved this pair: the one of the left for its simplicity and landscaping, the one on the right for its quasi-Victorian spirit.
The 15th Street Plaza is one of Atlanta’s public space success stories. The trees, the cafe tables, the gurgling fountain, the free Wi-Fi. Such a nice place to just…be.
The old Vickery’s on Crescent Avenue is being transformed day by day. Some neat modern tree planters have been installed, and the facade is coming back together. The old structures on this block provide needed relief from the new shininess of…
12th and Midtown. Before you know it, this block will be home to a high rise apartment tower with retail on the ground floor, giving the microhood additional energy and buzz. I’m surprised that the building won’t extend to the 11th Street corner where there’s a parking lot, though. I love Peachtree Street as much as the next guy, but it’s great to see the side streets being developed. It’ll give our urbanism a more dynamic (and less linear) quality.
Two very different concepts are illustrated for the northeast corner of N.Highland Ave and Wessyngton Road. The plot of land now holds what looks like a chopped up house with a vintage apartment building in the back, but given the value of Morningside real estate it’s only a matter of time before they’re replaced by ±$1M homes. In one corner, we’ve got the super contemporary, sustainability-focused firm Concourse E, which has done some really cool infill in Reynoldstown. In the opposite corner is Jones Pierce Architects, whose residential portfolio tends to be more contextual. Which option is “right?” Who knows? It’s like a billboard for postmodernism.
A Grand Gamble: Super-Tony Tower Breaks New Ground in Midtown (1992)
Imagine a neighborhood in the clouds, where work is an elevator ride away and residents awake to a panoramic view of the sunrise over Stone Mountain.
This is no dream, but the GLG Grand tower, which is shooting up 53 stories in the heart of Midtown Atlanta on 14th Street. Scheduled to open in November, the Grand will be a 24-hour-a-day, mini-indoor city within a city.
The cancelled One Museum Place project. Designed by David Chipperfield, it was to have been across from the High Museum. R.I.P. Midtown Atlanta.
(via One Museum Place Atlanta Luxury Condos a John wieland condos)
This project was announced in April 2010, and then we never heard anything else about it. Midtown Atlanta.
