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I like street spam, it lets you know your in a place where people don't care that much about their surroundings, like jail, except for the mind.

If everyone stopped tipping, maybe restaurant owners might actually have to pay their employee's a decent wage like any other service industry. What a weird tradition.

^Actually, I see Attica being dogpiled by rhetoric and he is the only one using source material and concise logic. Try again. The Glenn Beck rumor is telling in how you react to such nonsense, conversely that same method colors your perception.

In NO way does your reply address the content of the article. Bias or not. Fox news is truly a sad commentary of the failure of education in America.

How can you directly correlate pedestrian activity and land use proximity to a world class arts center? It is a destination, and your barometer for architectural beauty and urban vitality seems to be rooted in an 19th century romanticism. Beaux-Arts is not exactly a design paradigm for Dallas IMO. I smell envy.

O' Horse Blinders!

No functioning "roof" is level flat. While not a homeowner myself I've designed & spec'd plenty of commercial jobs involving parapets and resealing tar roofs, perhaps you could ask some commercial property owners who they insure with. Good luck and let us know how it works out; welcome to the forum.

Depends greatly on the existing structural integrity. It might very well be that to build atop your existing, conditions would require a steel balloon frame which is quite pricey. By jacking up the existing, the first floor and footings can be spec'd appropriately for the given load.

http://www.dailymail...l-crisis-s.html Property and development is still booming in east Asia. Just looking at the WSJ article from the other day also indicates their appetite for steel is still quit ravenous. The big issue here is two-fold: are they developing for the people's future or are we about to witness a great peasant uprising? And that brings about the energy issue too; which alone is scary but with a gilded society as theirs, revolution may not be as far fetched as it sounds. I guess we'll see in about a decade how or if a crisis this turns out to be. By then maybe load demands can be sorted through advances in battery technology along with other diversified energy sources.

I saved my girlfriend (now wife) from being whored out in a xanax haze from there. Had to talk the pimp down, crazy times..

The taxpayers deserve a better return on their investment for whatever is built in it's place. Do you think they will pony up for a 60-70 year building?

I think the type of gentrification most oppose is "block busting," where developers attempt to sanitize entire urban areas with faux culture and lifestyle centers. They instantly commercialize a place and take away the long time residents comfort of being. Meaning that where there once was a time they could sit on their porch and observe a commonplace event like a sunset, now the vibe is that they're loitering for not being or pretending to be someone important or engaged in some form of consumerism. Believe it or not, vacant lots serve a purpose greater than adjacent land valuation. In a city sorely lacking in public space, these spaces are the parks for children. It boils down to your morality, is the dollar almighty or is there a greater purpose in your existence here? The integral ad-hoc method of gentrification, manifested as building density is preferred. It is as urban pioneers are the purifying agents of brown fields and perceived blight, they (as the precursors to gentrification) act much like the biological function of wetlands.

In Moneo's wildest dreams.

Ok thanks, you've more or less confirmed a rumor I heard from some friends. We have a couple places like that in NOLA too. Always an interesting story how it comes about, but I'll refrain from spoiling everyone's fun. Cheers~

Also Depeche Mode's Violator album synchronized with Nosferatu. :thumbs up:

Is that the place where it's "cool?"

Yay Marigny!

It's hard to say if this is a good thing. It seems like a short term sol'n to a long term problem that will not end well. I'm personally of the opinion we should use the CIA to create a peasant uprising to depose of Mexico's ruling class. They've proven to only stifle innovation and b/c of that; it is the reason we are having the illegal immigration problem in the first place. To answer the other question, no, we shouldn't ever follow Mexico's lead on anything.

Thank you! It looks like a 1st year architecture student designed it the week before it was due. Cesar Pelli unimpressed. Sidenote: In the early 80's, there was a design competition for a tower in downtown NOLA. Cesar Pelli's design was one of the entries. In a follow up publication (which I cannot find any info on atm) he was ripped for not having a clue as to how his spatial dynamics affected perception. Simply terrifying, like looking into the abyss or posting on /b/. Him and Moneo were so clueless as to the effect of their work at the time that they and their boasters had the publication pulled. Thankfully the project flopped. It would be hard to see an oblique and contorted MGM style pyramid atop the skyline. Who is this architect with ambitious dreams?

New Orleans is like the Detroit of the south. Once trends like neighborhood tipping and white flight took hold, the city was basically handed over to the black community for leadership. In turn they enacted policies of retribution and now have a thriving tourist industry where a thriving oil industry once was. Not all whites left and the situation is not as racially segregated in the city as it was when whites were in power. Where the whites landed from their flight is in places like St. Bernard or Jefferson Parish. They, like the surrounding suburbs of Detroit, have looked at the rotting city core as the fault of the black's leadership. Hence this volley of accusations on both sides. Having been raised in NOLA and Harahan, I can tell you that race plays a crucial role in the politics and public developments. While the article may sound simplistic, it is one side of a complex issue and may have some truth to it.