Construction in Aggieville

[pissclams]

as bad as those apartments look now, just imagine how great they will look in 10 years.  20 years. 

[CNS]

That last picture looks like something out of TWD. 

[Rage Against the McKee]

as bad as those apartments look now, just imagine how great they will look in 10 years.  20 years.

Yeah. I really don't understand why anybody would be upset about this in the slightest.

[GoodForAnother]

as bad as those apartments look now, just imagine how great they will look in 10 years.  20 years.

people will love those chain link fences when the Obama apocalypse comes

[Belvis Noland]

If you don't care about architecture or urban planning, then no,  I dont imagine it would be very upsetting.

[CNS]

The chainlink really puts the ugh over the top.  I mean, railing is cheap and meets code.  what are they trying to do by making it look like some zoo exhibit enclosure?

Bob Strawn should be worrying about things like this rather than an increase of trash in someone's front yard one day a year.  Chain link isn't forever, but it's close.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

The chainlink really puts the ugh over the top.  I mean, railing is cheap and meets code.  what are they trying to do by making it look like some zoo exhibit enclosure?

Bob Strawn should be worrying about things like this rather than an increase of trash in someone's front yard one day a year.  Chain link isn't forever, but it's close.

The look strikes me as more minimum-security holding block...

[michigancat]

what's weird is part of the "fence" looks like railing you see on modern buildings all the time. And then it just goes to chain-link.

But I think that wall facing the parking lot is far worse.

[Rage Against the McKee]

If I lived in that apartment I would host cage matches weekly and collect a sweet vig from all of the gamblers participating in the nightly Aggieville orgy. FPD would just be huge.

[puniraptor]

But I think that wall facing the parking lot is far worse.

Huge urban pop art grafitti mural opportunity.

[Rage Against the McKee]

If you don't care about architecture or urban planning, then no,  I dont imagine it would be very upsetting.

I care about architecture, but not urban planning, at least not in some small town bar district. I think it's more hilarious than upsetting.

[Belvis Noland]

what's weird is part of the "fence" looks like railing you see on modern buildings all the time. And then it just goes to chain-link.

But I think that wall facing the parking lot is far worse.

Yeah, the choice to go windowless furthers my suspicion that this actually is a minimum security detention facility.  We can likely expect some barbed wire later this spring.   

[chum1]

You can't get much more urban than the wall facing the parking lot.  Or is too urbany the main problem here?

[Belvis Noland]

I care about architecture, but not urban planning, at least not in some small town bar district. I think it's more hilarious than upsetting.

We just have different expectations.  I want Manhattan to be a cool, unique, destination college town and I realize that a lot of that image is tied to Aggieville.  It's our thing.  ya know?  when people think of Manhattan and K-State, they often think of Aggieville.  I think it could be a pretty special district, especially with its proximity to campus.  It's unique.  Done properly, it could be pretty amazing.     

You view it as "some small town bar district." 

It is what it is. 

[chum1]

Manhattan would easily be one of the coolest college towns in the entire country if that damn Hunam building wasn't so hideous.

[Belvis Noland]

Manhattan would easily be one of the coolest college towns in the entire country if that damn Hunam building wasn't so hideous.

Again, for comprehension, Aggieville is an important community asset.  Our City planners should treat it as such. 

Or not.  see Junction City. 

[chum1]

This thread is the Lubbock clothing store owner recommendations for Kliff Kingsbury's image of architechture.

[Belvis Noland]

This thread is the Lubbock clothing store owner recommendations for Kliff Kingsbury's image of architechture.

 

[star seed 7]

what's weird is part of the "fence" looks like railing you see on modern buildings all the time. And then it just goes to chain-link.

But I think that wall facing the parking lot is far worse.

Yeah, the choice to go windowless furthers my suspicion that this actually is a minimum security detention facility.  We can likely expect some barbed wire later this spring.   

maybe there are plans to fill out the parking lot, so having windows doesn't really make sense when another building would just be going there. 

[michigancat]

This thread is the Lubbock clothing store owner recommendations for Kliff Kingsbury's image of architechture.

this was a good post

[Rage Against the McKee]

I care about architecture, but not urban planning, at least not in some small town bar district. I think it's more hilarious than upsetting.

We just have different expectations.  I want Manhattan to be a cool, unique, destination college town and I realize that a lot of that image is tied to Aggieville.  It's our thing.  ya know?  when people think of Manhattan and K-State, they often think of Aggieville.  I think it could be a pretty special district, especially with its proximity to campus.  It's unique.  Done properly, it could be pretty amazing.     

You view it as "some small town bar district." 

It is what it is.

Aggieville is what it is because local owners made it as they saw fit without the city telling them what to do. Sure, the Hunam could look a whole lot better, but I think it's just fine, and 99% of everyone who comes to visit won't even think twice about how it looks.

[Belvis Noland]

Sure, the Hunam could look a whole lot better, but I think it's just fine, and 99% of everyone who comes to visit won't even think twice about how it looks.

I think you should just own the fact that you don't care how the building looks.  It's a much better position than the "it's just fine." 

I mean, we all agree that the building looks like a prison camp, yourself included.  I care about this.  You don't.  it is what it is. 

[michigancat]

I disagree, I think it looks like a farmers' co-op in Hoisington, from the front.

[Rage Against the McKee]

I disagree, I think it looks like a farmers' co-op in Hoisington, from the front.

It does look kind of like a prison camp from the back, though. Still, if they can find tenants, who really cares? I certainly don't.

[puniraptor]

I actually like the hunam facade. not the apartment building or megawall though.

It looks like they bought a whole chinese restaurant out of an ikea catalog and dropped it off on the side of the street.