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Newly released renderings provide the first look at the design of a planned highrise on Hillsborough Street in downtown Raleigh that will include a mix of stores, offices and residential rentals. The most prominent element in the design of the project, known as 400H, is an indoor-outdoor section on the ninth floor that will include a pool, fitness center, two pool deck lounges , two indoor lounges and spaces for a coffee bar, meetings and co-working. Developers are calling it the SkyHub. Gensler, an international design and architectural firm based in San Francisco with an office nearby in Raleigh, is working on the project. “400H is intentionally different and is not about a building merely introducing square footage to the market,” Chad Parker, managing director at Gensler Raleigh , said in an email Friday. “We worked collectively to make a place that thrives on social connectivity, talent recruitment and retention, as well as identity.” The city’s planning department has approved...

Five years after Howard County planning officials approved initial plans for a major transit- oriented development next to the Laurel Park race track , the project is back on the rails. New plans for the first phase of Laurel Park Station were recently submitted to Howard County's Department of Planning and Zoning, according to DPZ Deputy Director Raj Kudchadkar . The whole project is slated to bring 1, 000 residential units – a mix of apartments, condominiums and townhouses – as well as 127,000 square feet of retail space and 650,000 square feet of office space to a 65-acre plot of land in North Laurel, currently a parking lot adjacent to the Laurel Park MARC train station . Construction will take place over a period of eight to 10 years, according to Aaron Greenfield, an attorney for Laurel Park. The project is divided into four phases. "It's a transit- oriented development , so it's smart growth," Greenfield said. Phase one will bring 220 residential unit...

Quizzes Lists Topics Save The Saxony Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Ninth Street in the city's downtown, [1] this five- story brick building includes a distinctive range of architectural details. Among these elements are brick pilasters and projections, a three- story bay window on each side of the symmetrical main facade , semicircular balconies , and many stone pieces, such as pediments, keystones, and stringcourses. Due to its location at the intersection of Ninth and Race Streets, the Saxony appears to have two fronts: one onto each street. Although the Ninth Street facade is larger and more complex, the Race Street facade is nevertheless ornate as well: it features small yet elaborate semicircular balconies with wrought iron railings similar to those of the Ninth Street facade . [2] Constructed in 1891 according to a design by leading Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford , [1] the Saxony Apart...