I spy a crane base! This is a HUGE plot and I canât imagine there wonât be 2 cranes for this project. It would help to know whatâs actually being built of course.
GIVE US THE RENDERINGS! Kinda wild we donât have them but this is moving ahead at full speed which is great.
I really hope itâs a multi-building complex and not just one massive building that kills the street atmosphere. Diversity keeps things interesting.
Agree, a massive building with no retail and parking garage frontage is a huge missed opportunity. But I think we all know thatâs whatâs coming.
Who knows, I think 2 massive buildings would suffice but 
Iâm hoping for a single 4 story building with no windows covering the entire site.
We all know itâs because theyâre hiding the sex dungeon.
I was thinking they are hiding a prison in the plans.
Someone here already saw them and said itâs two massive buildings that should make us happy. So I actually have high expectations. The only reason to hold them back at this point is if they were worried about public perception, i.e. too gaudy, too expensive looking, too extravagant for education buildings, etc, which I would be fine with lol. Considering thereâs no street activation, Iâm hopeful we at least get interesting architecture and engaging public spaces out of this.
We probably wonât get the latter to be completely honest given the Stateâs weirdly dystopian looking nearby public squares. Nonetheless, I may be wrong and Iâd loved to be.
$10 says they looking strikingly similar to Texas newish âeducation towerâ.
This legislature loves them some Texas
I tried to google that building but canât find it. Can you give us some more info?
Sooo, they built a parking deck thatâs typical for them. 
It wonât have any street atmosphere regardless, because the shortsighted guy in charge refuses to lease any retail space⌠even though itâs literally across the street from a busy tourist attraction. So other than adding slightly more height than the previous building, this new one essentially changes nothing to the pedestrian experience (aside from some new but IMO not entirely necessary green space) and adds nothing to the character of the street. SO deeply stupid and shortsighted.
Its one T-shaped building. Other than a big plaza on the Southeast corner, the ground floor is pretty walled off.
Thanks, I thought someone said two buildings connected by an atrium. If youâve seen them, can you please elaborate and tell us why they havenât been shared, in your opinion? Makes no sense not to publish renderings and generate excitement (a la Raleigh city hall). So why hasnât the public seen them?
another brutalist building in downtown Raleigh owned by the state coming down. The Bath building one of many in this era coming down in NC.
https://carolinapublicpress.org/68800/buildings-nc-brutalist-demolition/