What Would A Wall With a Moat Look Like? ( 5. October 2006, 22:09 by Derek Young) ~ Hmmm...
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This came in via email a few days ago… You can interpret it as you wish. |
Courtesy of Holistic Forgeworks
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Morgan,
Did you have something else in mind? A moat was generally used as one aspect of security right? Maybe this should also have a section of sidewalk that has a drawbridge sort of function to it…then it would force people to cross the busy Pacific Avenue.
2 | Posted by M.W. | Oct 6, 06:34 AM
Don’t you think this image is going a bit overboard? Creative…yes….but extremely overboard. I haven’t seen any comments about the views of the Foss Waterway being lost because of the Glass Museum or Thea’s Landing apartments or the new housing being built north of these. Not mention…as I walked down Pacific Ave. I noticed that the Art Museum as a metal wall 10 or 12 feet high blocking the Foss view. I also noticed a section of fence missing that seems to be a safety concern if a child entered there and fell down the huge embankment and went “Splatch” on the parking lot below.
3 | Posted by DikDur | Oct 6, 08:37 AM
Don’t you think this image is going a bit overboard?
The Seattle Times had a editorial cartoonist for many years. For the last 100 years at least, newspapers have had editorial cartoonists. You can look at many of them here and here
In fact, a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922.
The photoshop work by RR Anderson of Holistic Forgeworks is very mild even for a mainstream newspaper. Plus, it shows off the skills of Tacoma’s burgeoning art community.
to be fair to the thea foss and art museum folks, those tragedies were before my time and thus I feel it would be poor taste for retroactive heckling. That being said, nobody is safe; fight the power.
5 | Posted by RR Anderson | Oct 6, 09:21 AM
Public access easements/spaces are held to a higher standard. The Thea Foss walkway itself does not have obstructions of limited views. This is also part of the reason the City is so concerned about obstruction of views from Fireman’s Park with the height increases proposed with the new Herb Simon towers on Dock Street. (For more on this issue: http://www.cityoftacoma.org/Page.aspx?cid=2219 )
Public spaces need to set the standard for quality design. Andersen can do quality design, but the City/public & WSHM need to come to terms with the goals of the space.
6 | Posted by DavidS | Oct 6, 10:41 AM
Sure…I understand the walkway but wasn’t the issue that you couldn’t find it because of this wall….aren’t people going to have just as hard of a time if they can’t see the waterway itself? Once all the buildings are up…you won’t be able to see it from anywhere but the housing areas. Perhaps Dock Street should be renamed to Over Price Housing Lane. I didn’t think the other buildings were suppose to be that high either, but wasn’t there a variance granted by the city?
7 | Posted by DikDur | Oct 6, 12:34 PM
The discussion of views isn’t going to disappear. I’ve heard that there is going to be a proposal for the Comprehensive Plan in the next round of amendments to raise the height restrictions in the NCX zones (mixed use centers). This would include most of the hillside rising from downtown to MLK, along Proctor, Portland Ave and others. This further supports additional development around the city and the loss of views for the neighbors. Something to be thinking about. The discussions will start next spring with the Planning Commission.
8 | Posted by MW | Oct 7, 08:16 AM
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