Check out the proposed look for Brothers Bar & Grill in Broad Ripple (
reported here in December). Keystone Construction has been awarded the contract to renovate the space at 910 Broad Ripple
Ave., which currently is occupied by an awards shop. The restaurant/bar is scheduled to open later this year. The designer
is Rottmann Architects.
Meridian Real Estate is marketing a new medical office building in Carmel for Justus Homes. The 40,000-square-foot building
is proposed for the entrance to the Pro Med Office Park at U.S. 31 and Old Meridian Street. Justus may take 8,000 square feet
in the building. The city of Carmel already has approved the two-story limestone building.
And finally, in a bit of a tangent, I'm curious to know
what you think of Wal-Mart's new logo. They're changing it for the first time since 1992, and plan to incorporate it at all
of their stores (hence, a real-estate connection). They're losing the dash and no longer capitalizing the "M" in Mart. I've
posted the old and new looks at right. The world's largest retailer also has posted a
timeline showing the logo's evolution. What do you think?
Check out the proposed look for Brothers Bar & Grill in Broad Ripple (reported here in December). Keystone Construction has been awarded the contract to renovate the space at 910 Broad Ripple
Ave., which currently is occupied by an awards shop. The restaurant/bar is scheduled to open later this year. The designer
is Rottmann Architects.
Meridian Real Estate is marketing a new medical office building in Carmel for Justus Homes. The 40,000-square-foot building
is proposed for the entrance to the Pro Med Office Park at U.S. 31 and Old Meridian Street. Justus may take 8,000 square feet
in the building. The city of Carmel already has approved the two-story limestone building.
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Big deal for Wal-Mart.
When they start purchasing locally grown goods and stop draining local business I will be more inclined to enjoy shopping there.
I am excited for the Broad Ripple project.
Carmel. eh......
However, they do have outdoor seating which is nice! Add some trees & it would be better.
The Carmel building is blah.......
The Brothers renovation looks fine, except for one minor niggle: The awning should match the curve of the corner. It's all in the details folks.
Carmel... yawn.
Remember the Old Apple Logo? It use to be just an apple (bitten into like today) with the colors of the rainbow instead of the current blue.
I may not like Walmart*, but atleast I will give them props for trying to get people to start looking at them again via the looks of their name.
The walmart* looks very Euro to me, which is odd considering their lack of success in Europe.
The Brothers building storefront corner is a clipped angle below the curved parapet, and that's where the awning mounts. IMO, a curved awning would only make sense if it were affixed to the parapet. Details, indeed.
You may not like walmart, but I definitely think this is a step in the right direction for them.
It would make it seem more elegant and land markish.
Eh but that could be my own tastes.
The classics they all so often try to re-create, Indianapolis has the originals! ;)
Urban neighborhoods that have mostly been demo'd and replaced with garbage like the Walgreen's & CVS at 16th & Meridian?
But I guess all of those places have been replaced with walgreen's! =]
People whine when Carmel builds urban. They whine when Carmel builds suburban.
2. Looks like a Vinyl Village McMance has sex with a 465 Dollar Inn and this was the off spring. Why do I see Value engineering in this building?
3. Walmart * goes retro. looks like somebody in Bentonville thinks this is a Hip new logo. ya 20 years ago!!!!!
MMMM, I bet it’s some type of ‘NOTE’, like down at the bottom of the sign. There a small sentence that says. ‘*Not responsible for the quality of our products’
I'm all for use of older classic styles but heres the thing.
Thats a cheap way of doing it. I don't see any ornate details or even a decent cornice.
The sign on the front of the building is also a major violation of classic design.
I think what Carmel is doing is great and I think they should by all means continue their classic urbanism movement.
I am just saying when comparing the two cities Carmel doesn't stand a chance in architecture because it is building classics 80 years after Indianapolis finished building classics.
That Carmel building is a huge piece of crap, I don't care if it's built in the suburbs or on the Circle, either way, it's a turd. I could give anyone 30 reasons why, but I'm tired, so I'll stick to just a couple: as socrates said, no cornice detailing. The balcony floors are too thin and they appear to jut out with no apparent support; this is a Modern detail, not Classical or French or whatever this thing is striving to be. The entry portal seems a little Greek (why?), and the circle (window?) in it is too small, or perhaps it's that the (EIFS) field in which it floats is too big, enhanced by the broken cornice line below where the building's name has slipped in as a sort of faux-beam. There is no sense of mass to the masonry, as the windows sit close to the surface and betray the thinness of the wall below. Because the base of the building has no mass, the mansard appears top heavy. The whole thing is graceless and clunky.
If you're going to make something in a historic style (why would anyone want to? Why can't this be a contemporary building? Don't the users of this medical facility want to be treated by contemporary medical methods and techniquess, not historic ones? Anyone for a bleed?), at least do it well; don't just make it histor-icky.
I think a lot of people prefer classic because it sort of sits more elegantly and tends to age well, this is obviously like you said, histor-icky! Ha-ha.
Pots aren't the answer. Is there any way an esplanade could work? Other ideas?
Planting shade trees in tight quarters (in cutouts or newly-created tree lawns along the sidewalk) is a bad idea: bad for merchants (whose signage and presence is reduced in the eyes of passersby), bad for building owners (who have rake leaves off of flat roofs and clean out alleys), bad for infrastructure (as maturing trees grow, their roots push up streets and sidewalks and also seek out sewers and water lines), and bad for the trees (too little soft surface around their roots will lead to stunted growth and premature death and disease).
So it's at least partly limestone, good. But that doesn't change the proportions, mass, stance, or appropriateness of this building.
Also: limestone can be used - gracefully, elegantly, and appropriately - in a modern or contemporary design.
People like it isn't reason enough for a building to look historicky. People like smoking too, should they do it? The job of doctors is to teach patients what is good for them AND WHY. This architect feels that in the realm of the built world that is my role as well.
Copied today, copied poorly, it's an eyesore. And will continue to be. Any educated eye will see so.
The City-County building has lovely proportions, an elegant simplicity of materials, and spoke of a time when people were optimistic about the future. What are we afraid of today?
If anyone can say the city-county building is elegant(especially compared to what it replaced) must be a modernist haha.
p.s. i dunno about you but i would MUCH rather live in the original Lockerbie!
The City/County building is elegantly PROPORTIONED. The proportions - of solid/void, height/width, etc. - of a Modern building are and should be different from the proportions of a Tudor or Greek Revival. To an educated eye, when those proportions are wrong, it's as glaringly uncomfortable and ugly as would be a bad nose job to a skilled plastic surgeon.
Does one need an educated eye or architecural erudition to discern a bad nose job? Or can any ol' lay person tell?
It would almost be okay if the entry were a Second Empire tower form with the round window in a mansard roof. It would at least be consistent.