For all of you interested in the design of the public spaces at the future Union Station Transit District, you’ll want to attend this Thursday night’s Land Use/Urban Design breakout group meeting.
The meeting will be held Thursday, September 4, 2008, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the offices of Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), 555 17th Street, 5th Floor. Marilyn Jordan Taylor from SOM and Mary Margaret Jones from Hargreaves will continue their discussion from the August 7 Land Use/Urban Design meeting about the public realm for the DUS Transit District. Following up on the design team’s site analysis and framework for a connected transit realm, Marilyn and Mary Margaret will propose design alternatives for the outdoor transit “rooms” and identify opportunities for streetscapes. Participants will be encouraged to contribute their ideas in an interactive conversation about open-space programming.
To view a copy of the design team’s presentation from the August 7 meeting, essentially a design “framework plan” that includes various themes, conditions, and ideas around which the public realm design will be organized, please visit the Presentations page at the Union Station Advocates website.
The student presentations from some months ago were very helpful in defining the issues that will be faced here.
I hope the powers that be learned from them.
^
That was me. Trouble setting up OpenID.
Show up! If you don't, the only people who will show, are the ones that want the buildings replaced with grass lawns and would rather have pretty views of Union Station and the mountains from every place possible, instead of a structured cover protecting them from elements while they wait for their train.
the 'no wing buildings' argument has no traction. nobody seems to be discussing that option anymore.