HOK's Winning Ideas- More Renderings

I like the way the structure cozily fits into the footprint of the area; however, the first image seems like it was designed by Donald Trump. I hope future renderings won't make it seem as gaudy.

I disagree. I think it's a bold/contemporary architectural statement that this area needs. Though, I'm fully aware that the final product may look incredibly different since it's merely a design concept meant to represent the direction HOK will go in.

I find it interesting that the renderings show the small houses butting up to the back end of the building. I don't think anyone really expects them to be there when all is said and done.

AMAZING! But, is the completion for the first phase 2016, or both phases?

Built right to the sidewalk. Nice.

What I love the most about it is how they built on top of the street allowing a pass-thru for traffic and pedestrians of rather than building on the street and destroying the street grid.

Now encourage further buildings deeper into the Fruit Belt and towards the Kensington so this campus doesnt become a suburban strip mall.

(Thats a better strategy than Roswell and others have demonstrated as their plans destroy the street grid).

Also, this location and density is excellent for its proximity to our Lady of Lourdes. I think it increases the possibility something positive will be done with it so it doesnt have to be demolished.

Its also good for the Masten Armory, City Honors, City Fields, Masten Park, Science Magnet, Science Museum and Humboldt Park areas which I can see gentrification as this gets built out.

Now THINK BIG! End the Kensington at BEST Street and make Best the eastern entrance to the Life Sciences Campus rather than Goodell, Elm & Oak. Downgrade the Kensington back into Humboldt Parkway entrance to downtown!!!

It looks like its 10 stories tall. Its not a skyscraper but its a good size building for our downtown.

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This could give Allentown a much needed boost as med students might start looking in the area for housing. Johns Hopkins in Baltimore is a good example of this. It sits atop a hill on the edge of a sketchy part of town, with the higher end neighborhood of Fells Point on the other side, several blocks away, and at the bottom of the hill along the harbor. In between is a neighborhood called Butchers Hill, which used to be quite rough, but has since come a long way thanks in part to the Johns Hopkins students who moved in. Butchers Hill is becoming so marketable these days that realtors have given the neighborhood a new name, "Upper Fells Point." This all happened because of the recent $1.1 Billion expansion of Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, which in a way reminds me of the Buffalo Medical Campus expansion.

Very nice land use and like the way the strip of public space in Phase 2 runs into the public space at Roswell Park.
The building's facade is a bit much and where are all the students and faculty going to park?

It may be insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but what of the HSBC (now First Niagara) branch at Main and High? Maybe incorporated into the new structure?

The plan shows that the architects understood the very strong need to sew the city back together after years of stupid car based decisions

Do we know what is happening with the public housing lot on the Medical Campus? I thought that was where the med school was to be relocated?

I hope the final product does actually look close to the renderings- I think they're great!

Would Women and Children's Hospital be just to the north (other side of High)? Is there a timetable for that?

If you pull up a google map of the area, if they leave the older buildings on Washington, there really isn't that much area for them to work in. It would seem to necessitate them going higher.

I really think this Medical school project will be a big boost to this section of Buffalo. It's a very exciting project! Can't wait to see it completed! I hope that the brick building on the corner of Main and Allen gets some much needed attention. It is currently a bit of an eye sore but has a lot of potential to be developed into apartments, offices and businesses. Right now though it is the main blight on that section of Main St. Hope this project will spur much needed investment there.

With all that glass I am hopeful it turns out better than the new courthouse.

What happens to Washington St. All this emphasis on "reconnecting" Allen St. & Washington St. is gone. What is Allen St. being "connect" to? Sacrificing the street grid should not be an option here in light of comments on how Roswel Park erased & ignored so much of it.

Actually, Allen Street is not being "reconnected" to Washington, because Allen Street was never connected to Washington in the first place.

HOK's design backs up to Main Street. Further isolation of the street from the medical campus. Allen St. gateway is a pigeon hole and not inviting to a sensitive, low desnity scaled community. Turn it 180 degrees and you may have something.