WaHu Student Housing - 1000 Washington Avenue SE
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There's actually a mirror image (I believe) of the greenish building on the other side of the 11-story building. If you saw this site from an airplane or helicopter directly above it would look like a giant "W". Come to think of it, didn't the University of Wisconsin (UW) win the design compeition for this site........?
Re: WaHu Student Housing - (1016 Washington Avenue Southeast
I think that was for the Days Inn site. But I could be wrong.
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Design competitions for this site a year or two ago and now the Day's in site aren't requests for designs by developers, they're academic exercises. They have no direct influence on what does or doesn't get built on these sites.
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I agree, I really like the layering that occurs and how the massings are broken up without looking like they are meant to look like different buildings.I like this design a lot better. This is a huge project, and it appears like two different projects and breaks it up nicely.
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Isn't that triangle of grass at the Washington-Huron intersection basically a big drainage pond? I think the image of frisbee-playing students there may be a bit misleading.
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Stick framing is starting to go up on the south portion of this (the right leg of the "W"); that's the only portion of this that so far has the foundation completed. There is an elevator shaft sticking up about 4 floors near the back of (what will become) the center portion of the project.
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Pretty good progress...they're on the sixth floor (5th floor of stick) along Huron, 4th floor (2nd of stick) along Washington.
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Looks to be about topped out on the Huron side of this. The corner is working on about the 4th floor. That has a ways to go. Didnt realize it before, but the corner seems to really point towards the stadium area. Hadn't realized that in the photos. Not sqaured off like one might expect.
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I was near here the other day and it was looking awesome. I can't wait to see this done, it'll close off long sight lines and really make this area feel more urban! ah!
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The construction techniques being used on the tower portion seem really strange. Some concrete floors, some steel beams, and the new floors seem to have no steel or concrete between them.
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I noticed that as well. Couldnt figure out what was going on. Not sure if they are using steel with steel stud walls, or what they are doing.The construction techniques being used on the tower portion seem really strange. Some concrete floors, some steel beams, and the new floors seem to have no steel or concrete between them.
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Steel stud on the taller portion and wood framing on the shorter portion.I noticed that as well. Couldnt figure out what was going on. Not sure if they are using steel with steel stud walls, or what they are doing.The construction techniques being used on the tower portion seem really strange. Some concrete floors, some steel beams, and the new floors seem to have no steel or concrete between them.
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Does anyone have the final renderings for this building? Based on the construction so far, it's hard to tell where the tower portion will end up. My assumption is that the tower is the last section built, but that doesn't match any of the photos I'm seeing online. It would also mean a lot of inside-facing windows looking at each other from close range.
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The tower is the non-wood framed portion, directly on the corner of Washington and Huron. It also has the external elevator in the picture above.Does anyone have the final renderings for this building? Based on the construction so far, it's hard to tell where the tower portion will end up. My assumption is that the tower is the last section built, but that doesn't match any of the photos I'm seeing online. It would also mean a lot of inside-facing windows looking at each other from close range.
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The structure has stayed the same since proposal, but they did change the skin of it.
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