At the risk of sounding like a negative nancy, ugh, where to begin?!?
I don't think you are actually concerned with that.
3) I know just placeholders, but if these are to be just placeholders, I'd rather see conceptual massing alone, and NUMBERS, more of an official plan. Not a Microsoft Paint render of some stuff thrown together.
6) WTF, a hot air balloon poorly rendered in Paint on one of the slides? Really?
First off, what's with the Paint hate, man?
Second, if they did that presentation in Paint, the person that did it is Paint Rembrandt. A hot air balloon in Paint? C'mon!
history and aesthetics of Jacksonville.
Please elaborate
9) Is it just me or is one of the slides completely lifted from the design of the Miami Central Station with some additions of glass and a color scheme switcharoo? Namely, the slide below the one where the Naval ship is precariously hanging on by a thread to the end of one of these piers. Last slide on Pg 2
It's just you. Most people haven't looked at a design presentation for a project in Miami, nevermind compared the two for their similarity in slide design.
Populous is one of the largest architectural firms in the world, and they are responsible for some of the most iconic stadium designs of the last 50 years. Yankee Stadium. The O2 Arena. London's Olympic stadium. AT&T Park. Camden Yards. Our own baseball grounds, and the recent Everbank Field renovations. Their work has been featured at 31 consecutive Super Bowls, and numerous Olympics games.
These guys aren't using Microsoft Paint.
The new Yankee Stadium is atrocious. Otherwise, I get and agree with what you're saying. And AT&T and Camden Yards are amazing.
He must think Jax citizens are dumb (and in fact, he may be right in that).
No argument there.
Forgive me, I guess I HAVE been around billionaires
Guys! Guys! Simms knows billionaires!! oooo
The News4Jax article states the aquarium is still planned for "somewhere off Bay Street." Unless they plan on working it into these renders, it sounds like they're gonna boot it from the riverfront.
The aquarium isn't a real project. It's a heavily promoted dream that still needs millions in funding to get on the drawing board, secure property and actually be built. If it progresses to such a level, space can be found.
Seriously, everybody that keeps bringing up the aquarium needs to chill. That's even more pie-in-the-sky than this proposal, and that's saying something.
I've always heard palms are NOT native to Jax, which I've always believed, if you go out in the woods or drive through Osceola national forest you don't see any.
Can someone more knowledgeable comment on this?
We have palms, we just don't have
only palms.
Otherwise, Simms, I generally agree with you, though a bit less cynically. Jacksonvillains on this board are generally way too gung-ho for unrealistic renderings and proposals. We are so hard up for some good development that we get over-enthusiastic for okay (or any) development proposed. And Khan certainly hasn't really done anything to earn this reverence he is afforded by Jaxsons and, in particular, Jags fans. It is certainly not altruism that has driven this proposal or any of the actions he has taken in Jacksonville that we might consider positive. He is the beneficiary of a pretty stacked industry that runs like an extra-governmental entity basically holds its host cities hostage (but, Rome
is the mob). That said, he does seem like a decent guy and I believe, for the sake of his team, he would rather see Jacksonville, particularly downtown, thriving rather than wallowing. So, while I don't see this proposal happening, I can conceive of him getting something built that would be major for downtown. And if balloons are part of it, well then woohoo! Who doesn't like balloons? Though, I imagine we'll get more practice field and less office space/retail/residential than what is shown here.
Not a personal attack simms, just some insight for those who haven't been afforded the awesomeness of living vicariously through you and your stops at a couple of metros that are always better than the last in your climb up the corporate ladder.
I, sir, am enthralled.
Honestly, troll or no, NRW
is funny.
Also, they should absolutely not be filling in more of the river. The river is
the thing we have going for the area.
