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I agree. I always thought Toronto was missing something - anything - that made it something other than a big, anonymous North American city with a lot of glass towers. Then I went to Centre Island, and said: "this is special."

Indigo is a curious brand. It was conceived as Intercontinental's luxury boutique -- and operates as such in some foreign locations. But since Intercontinental bought Kimpton, it seems to have been brought down just a notch in the US.

I deleted it because it was viewed as argumentative, and I don't want to argue. That said, I think it is a very accurate view of Cleveland's legal market.

Just did a street view. I never realized that Cleveland Heights had such post-war housing and development so close in.

Oh, no. Really? I was hoping that big refurbishment 20 years or so ago would have given it another 30 years. It's a beautiful span.

That sign is hilarious. The "executives" are First National Bank's, who park in the basement --- the only part of the garage where concrete does not fall onto the cars, from what I hear.

While I'm as pro-development as the next guy, this project does seem out of scale for that particular neighborhood. I'm no zoning maestro, but it seems like multi-floor apartments should be pushed to the avenues, with houses and townhouses filling the streets between.

Make no mistake, I am NOT making a personal case FOR that building. I am suggesting that this could be what we GET.

I suppose that Nashville building is better from the street.

Je presente: The Pinnacle at Symphony Place, Nashville. Conservative, Pickard, 29 floors, 417 feet.

Very insightful. A hotel? Maybe. But, I have a very, very hard time imagining that a marquee American company would choose an extended stay hotel for their headquarters site.

And they'd be small cruise ships. Per Wikipedia: "Channel depths and limited lock sizes meant only 10% of current oceangoing ships, which have been built much larger than in the 1950s, can traverse the entire seaway." I never knew this, but the freighters are built on the Great Lakes and are too large to leave them.

Pinecrest is a disaster for the east side and Cleveland in general. This "lifestyle" center overlooking an 8-lane freeway has simply cannibalized the other two "lifestyle" centers and Beachwood Place. Unfortunately, it could kill Beachwood Place, which could effectively leave Cleveland without a Saks.

Let's hope that congregation sold them the lot, and uses the money to restore what I am sure used to be a very lovely church. I cannot find an historic picture of it, but know it used to be St. Mark's Episcopal 100 years ago....

It is strange. I suppose that happens when a city loses half its population. A decade or so ago, I mused whether the City should just finish the job, and with a few architectural jewels excepted, level everything between Carnegie and Chester and create a "Central Park."

This looks like a case where the rendering "may" be worse than the execution. The materials list shows brick, cast stone and aluminum panels - so I am hopeful it will look like a miniaturized phase 2 of The Quarter. On the subject of the renderings, I am also hopeful that they actually plant sycamore trees as reflected, rather than yet more ever-small, "flowering" pear trees which developers must get for free.

Loved that stripper pole!

While law firms generally won't locate in a building named for another law firm, companies frequently fill the majority of "their" space with law firms. Key Tower, home to Thompson, Squire and Baker is an example. I'm sure Stark could easily convince its client, Benesch, to be a tenant in what could be the "Cleveland Cliffs Tower."

^Columbus developer^ I hate to say it, but if they stick around long enough, they will learn this City's government has much lower expectations.

KJP, if you know, would you mind please telling us the name of the intersection in the lower part of this image, with the school? on one corner?

While the Sterling/old-old Higbee's building is no gem, I've got to hand it to the folks who designed its current facade. It really does look like a 1980s suburban office building.

Given SW's conservatism, I wouldn't be at all surprised by a design like this Pickard tower in Nashville. I'll take it!

I'm loving that last pic, particularly. I've always felt bad for the folks dodging traffic in poop town.

^ If they are like the one they just put up outside my house, they will be very, very bright. You will be able to read a newspaper by them.