afransen
Senior Member
I wonder how they will clean the dust buildup on the canopy. Guy in a harness with a mop?
Yes, it does look a bit as though it was built by people who live in Nice or San Diego and it will be interesting to see how it deals with winter here but it DOES look fantastic!I really wanna see how the indoor/outdoor space looks in the weather. Where the snow will blow in, how the rain will drip in. Whether it’s aesthetic or just blech.
That easy comprehension and clarity of path immediately mark The Well as different from another mega-development, Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, which opened in 2019 with double the retail at 750,000 square feet. Despite the odds, Hudson Yards has become an economic success, generating hundreds of millions of dollars more revenue than expected.
Still, the design of Hudson Yards’s “vertical retail center” continues to fight shoppers’ desire lines. There is no central spot from which to comprehend the entire layout, no single stacked run of escalators from the ground floor to the top, and no food court in the body of the mall. At Hudson Yards, the ground floor is filled with luxury shops uninteresting to the tourists who stream through the front doors, their curiosity piqued, and then get the runaround on the way to the Shake Shack on level four. Chairs and tables have been added along the hallways, and the Uniqlo is buzzing, but you’ve really got to work for them.
The retail designers of The Well, BDP, have not made these obvious errors. You will be able to see (and likely hear) the marketplace from most points in the complex, and the 11,000 residents in the six residential buildings above will provide a built-in customer base for the greengrocer, butcher, baker, pharmacist and gym down below. This is not a mall for window shopping, but for everyday urban life — heavy on the food and entertainment, light on the fast-fashion retail.
"wellington event venue"Thanks for posting that article. It mentions a 5 000 person amphitheatre. What space are they referring to?
We need more ambitious projects like this in this city. We need to aim big.