uptown construction pre-Wachovia HQ, credit: Justin Ruckman
WFAE’s Mike Collins of Charlotte Talks goes into detail discussing rapid development in the Charlotte region with some of the influential people intertwined with Charlotte’s development community, making for a thought-provoking listen for anyone interested in the development of the region. Is density the boon or bane of Charlotte’s [...]
This entry was cross-posted at DesignCharlotte.org.
The Fat City Lofts developers are sponsoring “The Graffiti Exhibition” on Friday from 6 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. at 3100 N. Davidson St., Suite 104. Visitors can examine graffiti artists’ conceptual ideas for covering a wall of the residential-retail building and vote on their preferences. Five participating artists plan to [...]
image credit: The Gazi Company
Those of you who have been downtown recently can easily see growth is under way. Charlotte’s new EpiCentre, located on the corner of College and 4th Streets, is just the beginning of the move toward a pedestrian-friendly live/work/play environment Uptown. This weekend, the EpiCentre held its grand opening, a “don’t miss” [...]
This video, produced by the Mint Museum, takes a look at the the projects being built around the new Wachovia tower that collectively make up the Wachovia Cultural Campus: the new Mint Museum, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Knight Theater, and the Afro-American Cultural Center.
Via adcharlotte.
These renderings appeared today in the printed program for the Wachovia Championship, as well as on trumpcharlotte.com and Little’s website.
Will it be built? Is it just another rendering of the same old plan that was recently put on hold? Maybe all of the above.
Can you identify the eight buildings in the images above? All are within an easy walk of the center of Uptown Charlotte. The first person to name all eight in the comments wins a signed, limited-edition….. um, bragging rights, or maybe even one of the cool new CLT Blog T-shirts when we get them [...]
Charlotte Center City Partners released an amazing new vision of Uptown retail at their annual Vision Awards. As the vision emphasizes a drastically different new look for shopping in the Center City, our streets would go from stark to spectacular. The addition of EpiCenter and other non-business components to uptown - like residential towers - [...]
I came across these two videos recently: one filmed driving through the city in October 1986, and another taken by the same person following the same route just last month. I could watch this kind of stuff for hours.
October 1986
March 2008
The Freelon Group of Research Triangle Park, NC was recently awarded the 2007 AIA Triangle Award for Unbuilt Projects. In association with Neighboring Concepts, they will be designing Charlotte’s new Afro-American Cultural Center, its mission being to promote and preserve African American culture, history, and art.
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