It looks like the parking is a separate structure? So it could be converted or torn down in the future.
Canāt wait for them to break ground on this 
. Glenwood is going to feel a lot different once this goes up and the new cornerstone development.
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That parking deck screening looks like a temporary scaffold or something.
Will it have flat, or sloped, floors? The former is conducive to eventual conversion to other uses. The latter is not.
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Theyāre not screens, itās candy glass you accelerate and fly out of the parking deck like a man.
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From the plans:
Perforated metal mesh
Precast Concrete
Metal tie rods
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That shows ramped floors (indicated by the dashed triangles). Maybe itās a double helix plan.
The screening shown here is definitely a placeholderā¦ itās literally rendered as a solid color with no suggestion of materiality. Still, itās proportionally awful. Iād hate it less if they chopped off two of the modules, which would bring it more inline with the tower of the Creamery building. It just completely dwarfs it as shown.
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Parking facade, clever!
Woonerf is a pedestrian alley, very European. The designer I would bet is European.
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Parking deck seems like the Dillonās, genius yet confusing 
Did I miss how many stories this will be?
I can tell you this the city Council is looking seriously at improving the appearance standards of parking decks with art or better screenings, more to come.
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As a downtown lover Iām absolutely pumped about this project. This connecting with Glenwood & Smoky Hollow is freaking huge.
Bittersweet for me tho as Iāll lose my beautiful Glenwood view from my apartment if I stick around.
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Need to start thinking how to market your dense urban view!
Iām surprised no one posted this one yet. It shows this new property in context with all of Glenwood South. At the bottom it looks like it points out the next phase of Smoky Hollow and the potential Zimmer development too.
EDIT: Obvious this picture isnāt fully up-to-date with all the new developments. Aka doesnāt show stuff like the Madison, 400H, Bloc 83 Phase 3, etc.
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I donāt think itās that bad. If it were a concrete wall Iād agree but it appears to be some sort of glass.
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I think Drew said itās perforated metal mesh. And would the metal bars that form the outline of pine trees have greenery growing on them? I am too lazy to look through the plans, but I donāt think the parking garage is or even can be some kind of closed off concrete block.
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Iāve never seen a rendering this detailed released with a āplaceholderā parking deck screening.
They are showing us just how they intend to build this parking deck. We should pay attention and take them at their word (rather than hopefully assuming thatā¦ they couldnāt possibly be planning to build something this bad)
What incentive would they have to release a rendering that looks worse than what they plan to build? It just doesnāt make sense.
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Yeah I guess it could be mesh. In any case not concrete.
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Iāve never seen a rendering this detailed released with a āplaceholderā parking deck screening.
I have. I even produce them, routinely! Itās pretty standard practice.
The rendering is not even that detailedā¦ Itās a watercolor image. Architects do this intentionally to show that these are just an early suggestion of the character of the design, and are likely to change.
Theyāre literally showing blank 20ā x 30ā portions of the faƧade as a single panel. That is not even buildable. It is screaming that it hasnāt been designed, and is likely a placeholder for a panelized material that could potentially add detail, a pattern, or other forms of articulation. (Or they could choose to use metal perf. in a way that doesnāt emphasize panel joints, but the point is that the lack of detail in the rendering shows that this area hasnāt been thought through yet). I could be totally wrong about this, but Iām just speaking from gut reaction and experience.
What incentive would they have to release a rendering that looks worse than what they plan to build? It just doesnāt make sense.
Itās a reality of the development/approval process ā there simply isnāt time. The design process for a project like this is months long, and renderings like this are often produced in a couple of weeks, at a stage of design where the articulation of many areas has not yet been studied. Lower priority things donāt always get addressed. I posted an example of this yesterday on one of my own projectsā¦ the renderings we used for city council approval/public meetings were a best guess at an early stage of the character of the design, but really only reflected our proposed massing and a couple of the materials. After we studied the facade, the design improved, drastically, over time.
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