Re: HDR Aksarben Office
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 5:55 pm
OH nice to know.
It was at a presentation from Mapa officials that I saw and frankly I couldn't tell you where it was. The number was more alluding to absorption specifically in Douglas county. I would assume it was extrapolating a trend of acres absorbed per year then compared to the gross number of developable acres left. There was a Sarpy County number too but it was huge, maybe 80-100.Louie wrote:Does this number take into account what gets built in sarpy instead of Douglas?OmahaJaysCU wrote:The last MAPA number I saw was 30-40 years of land supply left in DC at the current pace.nativeomahan wrote:Umm. Not hardly. Douglas County won't run out of developable land during the lifetime of anyone on this forum.mgoett wrote:Well it is all good in my opinion. Omaha is booming and another ten years Douglas county should be full. Maybe not north but prolly to the Platte. Awe heck prolly North too.
Is this a thing for construction? What does it mean? I see it all the time!Coyote wrote:Tree and flag up on building!
Topping out tradition.buildomaha wrote:Is this a thing for construction? What does it mean? I see it all the time!Coyote wrote:Tree and flag up on building!
I was curious about the tree part of this. Wikipedia says "The practice of "topping out" a new building can be traced to the ancient Scandinavian religious rite of placing a tree atop a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits displaced in its construction.[2]"iamjacobm wrote:Topping out tradition.buildomaha wrote:Is this a thing for construction? What does it mean? I see it all the time!Coyote wrote:Tree and flag up on building!
What ever happened with this?Brad wrote:Fire Truck with lights going, fire captain SUV, MUD, and OPPD all by the north gate right now.
Not sure. UNO Security showed up and OPPD was over talking to them. OPPD was also working on a transformer by FDR. Fire Truck was there the whole time I was taking all those photos.HR Paperstacks wrote:What ever happened with this?Brad wrote:Fire Truck with lights going, fire captain SUV, MUD, and OPPD all by the north gate right now.
I wonder if it had anything to do with the power outage that hit PKI around 11 that same day? Had a bunch of classmates that were working in one of the labs when the breaker flipped, wiping everything they'd been working on the past hour.Brad wrote:Not sure. UNO Security showed up and OPPD was over talking to them. OPPD was also working on a transformer by FDR. Fire Truck was there the whole time I was taking all those photos.HR Paperstacks wrote:What ever happened with this?Brad wrote:Fire Truck with lights going, fire captain SUV, MUD, and OPPD all by the north gate right now.
Thanks! Sure does. It will be interesting to see the view from center street / park when the building next to Pac Life goes up.iamjacobm wrote:Great stuff Brad! I don't get to A/V hardly at all anymore, but was there a few weeks ago and this project dramatically changes the feel of the area. Feels really dense and almost cavernous.
I know people!Brad wrote:Did you move in to Pinhook?
Weeg wrote:Hello, I work for Sotawall, and we are supplying the majority of the curtainwall frames for this building. I was responsible for laying out the sloped corner frames at the NorthWest and SouthEast corners, and today is a happy day for me as the installer sent a picture showing the top corner frame installed at the NorthWest corner. I have attached a couple of other pictures if anyone is interested.
That has been three for a while... We can't find the feed...hatwate wrote:We just noticed this evening a video camera on the east side of the roof of the building that Dudley's is in. It is pointed towards the HDR building.
I agree, its looking great.MadMartin8 wrote:Gotta say, the glasswork and framing around that glass (and just the building in general really) looks way better on the photos/real life than in the rendering.
I have to disagree to an extent. Many rendering programs do let you select all of those factors such as accurate settings for sunlight and shadowing based on date, time, location. They also let you select color temperature, texture, reflectivity, etc. for each material in the model. It's a matter of taking the time to tweak all of the settings to get the look you want, which may reflect the mood you want to convey or the part of the design you want to emphasize. In many rendering programs such as Enscape, you can set the "camera" focal length, exposure, light sources etc. Some of the high-end programs such as MODO are indistinguishable from real photographs. Not sure if any architecture firms are using MODO, which is more of a product design and animated movie-making tool. More than likely, HDR is using REVIT for the 3D model with a rendering plug-in such as Enscape, or some other plug-in.MSizlack wrote:Rendering drawings rarely give an accurate depiction of what the final product will present like. Sunlight, shadowing, variations of surface texture (gloss, matte, smooth, rough) surrounding buildings, internal/external lighting, etc. all play a role that no drawings can reflect. I think this building looks great and fits the Aksarben complex wonderfully with its modern, straight lined looks. As for a rendering that looked MUCH BETTER than the finished building, just look at the Capital district Marriott.
Looking back at the renderings posted earlier in this thread, I have to agree with your assessment of their quality. They look flat and lack any reflections and are not very photo-realistic. Not sure what program they might have used. Maybe SketchUp, Rhino, or 3DS Max. SketchUp can be made to look very photo-realistic with the right plug-ins like Maxwell Render, V-Ray, Enscape, or Light-up, and taking the time to tweak the settings.MSizlack wrote:I certainly don't know as much about rendering programs as you do, and certainly agree that there are some that do picture like quality. Being able to have seen some of the recent UNMC buildings renderings early in the design process and then seeing the final product, they are very accurate. My point which I failed to make is that the renderings are often "dolled up" to make the proposed project look it's very best (like the capital Marriott). The HDR renderings of their HQ were what I can only describe as flat or 2 dimensional appearing. They certainly dont do the actual building justice. Again, I think it's a good looking design.
I noticed that too. There were several people in the waiting area of the salon or one of those bays just to the north of Herbe and they were holding up their hands trying to block the reflection coming in on them. While this is new to these business, its no different than any other urban setting where certain times of the year you just have to lower the shades and deal with it for 10 min a day.Coyote wrote:The late afternoon Sun reflex room is going to be brutal! The sidewalk in front of the Kiewit (formerly Gordman's) building lights up the sidewalk and right into Herbe Sainte.
Some buildings can obviously be worse than others with sun glare, this may be something HDR gets complaints about and will need to tweak things. The Shard in London had to place shades in windows due to cars literally melting.Brad wrote:I noticed that too. There were several people in the waiting area of the salon or one of those bays just to the north of Herbe and they were holding up their hands trying to block the reflection coming in on them. While this is new to these business, its no different than any other urban setting where certain times of the year you just have to lower the shades and deal with it for 10 min a day.Coyote wrote:The late afternoon Sun reflex room is going to be brutal! The sidewalk in front of the Kiewit (formerly Gordman's) building lights up the sidewalk and right into Herbe Sainte.
Different style pump, but they pumped it all the way to the 40th floor of the First National Tower.Coyote wrote:Wow. How high can you pour concrete?