I live in Glenwood South and walk to the Village District all the time along the flat Johnson St. route that follows the Pigeon Branch creek.
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Someone needs to get out the pressure washer!
That said, I love these Deco era capitols!
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Yeah I think it helps that we actually have stuff going on besides just being the capital. Like Iâm sure Jefferson City and Juneau are great, but we only know them because of their status as a capital. I couldnât care less about our historic Capitol building. I didnât grow up here and itâs not my history. Itâs just a decoration in the city I chose to live in because I like it. Iâm happy if it makes people happy. Frankly, Iâm much more interested in our new and upcoming municipal complex. But thatâs for a different thread.
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i mean Baton Rougeâs problem is that itâsâŚBaton Rouge. Theyâre the Fayetteville of Louisiana HAHA
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Glad to see this is having tangible impacts. I hope other cities take note and begin to push back on the NIMBYism that often prevents reasonable development.
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A few shots from London. Raleigh will never be an international financial or former imperal capital, but there is some really cool design here.
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Iâm a relatively new but BIG F1 fan, so this picture collage of the Shanghai skyline evolution over only 16 years resonated with me on a couple of perspectives. Impressive if nothing else.
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So what youâre saying is, we need a racetrack downtownâŚ
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We already have one on Blount Street
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They can keep the buildings, give me back the V8âs of 2008 or the V10âs from a few years before in 2005.
The V6 hybrid turbo is boring and made the cars too heavy. In 2026 they convert to 50/50 power distribution and the end of me ever attending another race.
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Yeah, I was gonna say that the only thing that grew more than the skyline in those pictures was the cars lol
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Durham urbanist and builder Aaron Lubeck once told me that Durham should have updated their UDO in 2008 to say âbuild whatever style building you want, as long as itâs red brickâ. I generally agree, brick is just a classy, timeless material
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I would like to see more small midrise brick projects in every city. Very classy, having a big field of them in some neighborhoods.
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Not to 
a too often seen and precipitously non-functioning 
BUT, itâs the consistent (LACK of) FORM as a measure of facade implementation that makes brick seem classic* timely* refined*âŚor whatever positive descriptor you might addâŚ
Itâs the random programming of jaanky ass materiality as a means of breaking up the minimal thought, full block 5-oâer- 
with no regard for style nor place-making that exposes a cheap veneer reflecting the profit-above-most-things aspects of development as a four letter word.
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To be fair, brick is expensive. You need people to lay it brick by brick.
I think in general a big issue is this demand for facades that âbreak up the massâ with awful cheap veneers when clean modernism looks so much better.
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If it is mandated by code / law, then we should indeed rally in the streets to make it stopâŚ
More likely, in fact, that it is value engineering and what a misnomer that is.
Many cities require large facades to be broken up by differing materials or facade manipulation. It is not building code, but local design standards. It winds up being easier and cheaper to use differing materials.
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