SALT LAKE CITY | Astra | 448 FT | 39 FLOORS
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Oh geez, a Kensington?! I certainly hope this turns out substantially better than the piece of crap they built in Boston! It's a top nominee for my city's worst high-rise of the decade! The SLC one has better proportions at least. Boston's also has terrible quality/color glass, and the siding resembles soggy cardboard. The crown is probably the worst in the whole city. Let's hope they have learned A LOT considering this would be SLC's new tallest building!
Pics of Boston's: http://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net...3-1000x666.jpg https://b386363e680359b5cc19-97ec114...90de13dbe8.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.wbur....e-boston06.jpg |
SLC is awesome!
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I'm excited to see this one move forward. The news has been good lately with the planning commission approving the height requests.
More info and renderings here https://i.imgur.com/v0Lh2eU.png |
But of a bummer that it’s not set to begin for at least a year.
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We received word that ground breaking was delayed due to the pandemic, but is anticipated to begin in the spring of 2021.
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A lot of towers in the works lately. Excited for this one to get started. I guess it will be the new tallest, but still in that 450 ft. range. It's only a matter of time before Salt Lake moves into the 500-600 ft. category.
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New renderings of this beauty! Groundbreaking is on track for next summer!
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Quite nice! It's got some nice contextual design nods to its surroundings.
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I wonder if Kensington will be a ‘notable’ tallest ? I know that Wells Fargo is technically taller than LDS, but the latter appears taller due to elevation ?
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Because of this, even at nearly 450', Kensington Tower will not look like the tallest. It might not even look like it is in the top 3. Even at this location, it would take a tower around 500' to appear to be the tallest from most directions. |
I did this little bit of analysis awhile back. It's not authoritative but it should be a pretty good guess.
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https://i.imgur.com/00UYbmI.png It's worth mentioning that this :previous: is missing a few significant tower projects too, including the 32+ story Utah Theater Tower, the 28 story South West Temple tower, the rumored 20-30 story 450 S Main tower, and the rumored 20-30 story Tavernacle Tower. |
Thanks guys. Happy about Kensington. And come on future 500-footer!
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Even more new Kensington Tower renderings from u/SLC_Dev on r/DevelopmentSLC:
https://i.imgur.com/9avSefwh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/y5uSXzqh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/H2IXT5xh.jpg (remove the "h" before ".jpg" for full size) |
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Still 448’ ?
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