EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
edited December 2017
Yeah, Longwood is actually the basis of our new medical city at Lake Nona (on the other side of Orlando from the one I showed earlier), but we have the advantage of building from scratch:
According to the plan, all of that fallow field will be built up by 2027. This picture is several year old, about a third of it has broken ground so far. For scale, this is that building in the front:
I wonder if I can find a picture of the hospital I walked into in Beijing
That was something
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A few miles away we have Celebration Hospital, which was built originally as a massive resort hotel for Disney and converted into an award winning hospital:
Why yes, it does have an indoor promenade with shops and restaurants.
Yeah, Longwood is actually the basis of our new medical city at Lake Nona (on the other side of Orlando from the one I showed earlier), but we have the advantage of building from scratch:
According to the plan, all of that fallow field will be built up by 2027. This picture is several year old, about a third of it has broken ground so far. For scale, this is that building in the front:
I really hope they've built some floodplain protection into that complex.
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edited December 2017
That's what those lakes are. You can see the undeveloped pine stands there? That's hammock land, which is uaually several feet higher than the wetlands regions. This is usually where we start building, and expand the foundations between them to create lower area swale channels between rivers. Usually that's where some (but not all) access roads go (like the one right above the legend on the top picture).
The lakes appear natural/ aesthetic, but serve as a river-flow systems during high water marks to direct water flow to the closest rivulet to the St. Johns. In this system, I'd assume that bottom left lake drains into the lake that the VA hospital fronts, which likely drains over to the right towards Lake Tahopekaliga and then on into Econolocohatchee river basin.
All of these systems vary by less than 20 feet from start to finish, usually. But when everything is about even on the centeral plateau of the state those minor changes can funnel a lot of water safely towards the St. Johns (which is about 50ft lower than most of central florida. It's how we stay nice and dry here in Central Florida.
We're actually pretty smart about where we build here. It's not like over on the coast where people put streets storm surge areas. Orlando is one massive water management system and, generally speaking, it works really well.
Oh shit I was going to point out that that looked like purple loosestrife, which is invasive and destructive in North America...but native to Asia whew!
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Years ago, the modular Tetra Shed took the design world by storm with its beautiful angular design. Today, the award-winning concept has been reborn as a full-scale hotel.
Years ago, the modular Tetra Shed took the design world by storm with its beautiful angular design. Today, the award-winning concept has been reborn as a full-scale hotel.
Jesus fuck, that's a horrifying visual. Despite the pretty blue sky and the lush green grass!
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how'd they fit 3 beds and 2 baths in that
is it extremely long and thin or something and we just can't see it from this angle?
or is it like "the kitchen also has a bed in it, and the basement has a bed in it, and we stuck a cot up in the attic space, and there's an outhouse in the back"
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According to the plan, all of that fallow field will be built up by 2027. This picture is several year old, about a third of it has broken ground so far. For scale, this is that building in the front:
That was something
Why yes, it does have an indoor promenade with shops and restaurants.
In a lot of ways, Orlando is bizzare.
I really hope they've built some floodplain protection into that complex.
The lakes appear natural/ aesthetic, but serve as a river-flow systems during high water marks to direct water flow to the closest rivulet to the St. Johns. In this system, I'd assume that bottom left lake drains into the lake that the VA hospital fronts, which likely drains over to the right towards Lake Tahopekaliga and then on into Econolocohatchee river basin.
All of these systems vary by less than 20 feet from start to finish, usually. But when everything is about even on the centeral plateau of the state those minor changes can funnel a lot of water safely towards the St. Johns (which is about 50ft lower than most of central florida. It's how we stay nice and dry here in Central Florida.
We're actually pretty smart about where we build here. It's not like over on the coast where people put streets storm surge areas. Orlando is one massive water management system and, generally speaking, it works really well.
After
http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2012/01/ecological-coridor-landscape-architecture/
They took those pictures on a very nice spring day
Oh shit I was going to point out that that looked like purple loosestrife, which is invasive and destructive in North America...but native to Asia
Jesus fuck, that's a horrifying visual. Despite the pretty blue sky and the lush green grass!
But can you walk on the grass?
It's just a massive trip hazard haha
Esplanade Riverfront Pavilion (.pdf) - Boston
wee norwegian houses.
edit: or a small, poorly renovated condo in Boston, so I mean, it still seems like a steal.
685358 US Dollar equals
851317.44 Canadian Dollar
and the fact that I'm already working remotely
man why am I staying in this cold-ass expensive city
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
holy shit
is it extremely long and thin or something and we just can't see it from this angle?
or is it like "the kitchen also has a bed in it, and the basement has a bed in it, and we stuck a cot up in the attic space, and there's an outhouse in the back"
Living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom upstairs.
2 bedrooms and bath downstairs.
I hear micro-living is in this year