{"id":9513,"date":"2014-12-03T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2014-12-04T19:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:49:53","slug":"a-tower-for-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2014\/12\/a-tower-for-rochester\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tower for Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rochester's<\/a>
\nBy Matthew Denker<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

Rochester has a nice skyline, although it\u2019s not notably more impressive than some comparable cities like Des Moines, IA where the tallest tower is 801 Grand at 630 ft. or Birmingham, AL where the tallest tower is the Wells Fargo Tower at 454 ft. tall.<\/p>\n

\"Des<\/a>
\nDes Moines, IA<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Birmingham,<\/a>
\nBirmingham, AL<\/em><\/p>\n

Notably, the tallest tower in Rochester is only 442 feet (and yes, it\u2019s Xerox). Even more pressing, the most recent tower to be built here is the newly-renamed Legacy Tower (n\u00e9e Bausch & Lomb Place). Since the Legacy Tower was built in 1995, approximately 650 towers<\/a> have been built worldwide that are taller than 650 ft.<\/p>\n

\"Tallest<\/a>
\nAs you might have gleaned, not a single one of them has been built in Rochester. I think it\u2019s time for that to change, and to get an idea for what the Rochester skyline might look like, I’ve generated some images with a new tower. There are also some pictures of contemporary buildings around 650 ft. that I am partial to, but the view on the skyline will be of a simple massing 650 ft. in height and 120 ft. square. I\u2019ve chosen 3 prime sites downtown for our hypothetical tower. Please note that at any of these sites there should be a podium that fills the site to the block with the tower rising above. Said podium doesn\u2019t factor into the skyline impact, though, and is not shown here.<\/p>\n

\"Diagram<\/a>
\nFor each of the three sites, I\u2019ve generated 3 views from various angles showing the impact on the skyline. My personal favorite is Site 3, but I think any of these locations would add positively to the Rochester skyline. <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n

Site 1<\/h3>\n

(84 Andrews Street \"external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n

Site 2<\/h3>\n

275 East Main Street \"external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 \u2022\u00a0\u2022<\/div>\n

Site 3<\/h3>\n

(119 West Main Street \"external<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Site<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, as promised, here are a few towers built in the last 10 years that I like. I think any of these would be a huge change from the current tower architecture in Rochester. <\/p>\n

\"Murano<\/a>
\nMurano, Philadelphia (475 ft. – This is a little short, but one of my favorite condo towers ever.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"388<\/a>
\n388 Bridge St, Brooklyn (590 ft.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"One<\/a>
\nOne Rincon Hill, San Francisco (641 ft.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Queen<\/a>
\nQueen City Square, Cincinnati (665 ft.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Aqua<\/a>
\nAqua, Chicago (859 ft. – This is a little tall, but also an incredible building.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Matthew Denker Rochester has a nice skyline, although it\u2019s not notably more impressive than some comparable cities like Des Moines, IA where the tallest tower is 801 Grand at 630 ft. or Birmingham, AL where the tallest tower is the Wells Fargo Tower at 454 ft. tall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79],"tags":[2977,2976,1643,53,151,2975,2974,309,2973,379],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-urban_development","tag-bausch-lomb-tower","tag-legacy-tower","tag-matthew-denker","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-ny","tag-rochester-skyline","tag-skyline","tag-skyscraper","tag-tower","tag-xerox-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9577,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions\/9577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}