The Flounder House
Anyone who has explored the neighborhoods of St. Louis knows that its urban fabric contains immense charm, largely due to a proliferation of high quality historic buildings and interspersed mid-century Continue reading
What Should Be
It’s easy to see an obvious problem and desire change, but it’s undoubtedly better to know what’s there, and to show what should be.
De Tonty
What’s there… A really big hole. A fairly astonishing scene from the high vantage of eastbound I-44, to be sure, and it’s a wonder that an expectedly intact neighborhood like Continue reading
Design Concept?
IS ST LOUIS READY FOR CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE? (Note: All images are copyrighted by SPACE Architecture and Design.) A bit of background to provide context for the question raised above, Continue reading
A River Aquarium and BRT Stop
With the procurement of the acreage south of the St. Louis Zoo across I-64 where the Forest Park Hospital currently sits, the zoo now has an excellent opportunity to Continue reading
Park Pacific
Time to Light Up The Park Pacific Garage and Tucker Blvd Built in 1928, the Park Pacific is a beautiful building. The proposed parking structure and residential addition was at Continue reading
Zoo South Campus #2
CHAIR (The Campus for Human and Animal Interaction Research) With the acquisition of the old Forest Park Hospital site, the St. Louis Zoo has transitioned from seclusion in Forest Park Continue reading
Pruitt-Igoe Now
(project by: Christina Clagett, Jeremy Clagett, John Wimmer) The following is the What Should Be entry for Pruitt-Igoe Now, a recent design competition aimed at generating ideas for the infamous site. What Continue reading
Zoo South Campus- #1
This is the first in a short series of ideas to be posted that focus on the St. Louis Zoo’s potential new expansion zone at the former site of the Continue reading
STL Zoo / Forest Park Hospital site
The news that the St. Louis Zoo intends to purchase the 13.5 acre Forest Park Hospital site, south of the Zoo in Forest Park and across I-64, was accompanied by a Continue reading
Pevely + SLU Healthcare
Much has been said about the need to construct a new healthcare facility in midtown. And much has been said about the need to preserve the Pevely and the urban Continue reading
Adaptive Reuse of the St. Louis Shotgun Home
Across St. Louis, four-family flats are becoming two-family townhomes. Two-family buildings are now single-family residences. The century old brick box is imminently reusable. Rip out a stairway, pull down a Continue reading
Mercantile Library
Arguably the brightest part of post-recession downtown St. Louis is the progress of the Mercantile Exchange: specifically the redevelopment of STL Center and the Laurel, and the demolition of the Continue reading
