Anthony West wrote:
the architect from Atkin Olshin Schade had a slide of exactly what the new
skyline would look like, from Baltimore Ave. You can contact Lussenhop
and ask if you can see it.
let's see ALL the slides, while we're at it! they could be
posted on a (free) publicly-accessible
You are a brute, Frank, to be forcing a grown man to practice geometry
on line, before hundreds of strangers.
You gave us an important clue here. When I stand at the corner of
Woodland Terr. and Baltimore Ave., I can see the highrises. But you
cannot. Let's assume, then, you live halfway down
Wrong. Looking north from outside the house I see no high rises at
all. I looked closely before I wrote the message. I am 3 doors in
from the corner. On the corner itself I have a wider view but I'm
closer to the buildings on the north side of Baltimore Ave and the
horizontal angle prevents
When Penn built the "Shop-ees at Penn" (as we used to call it) and offices
above at 34th and Walnut (with the Drexel-colored brick that upset so many
Penn trustees), this construction came after long negotiation with the
residents and businesses on Sansom Street about the acceptable height of th
Hmm. If this building was built, and a fellow lived on Woodland Terr.
and looked north, then yes, he would see about eight stories of a wall
jutting into the sky, above the trees, which will still be there. It
would occupy, I'm guessing wildly, around 2-5 degrees of arc.
Of course, even today,
All that you say is true, Karen and Al. I don't have the tools or the
database to calculate all these variations, and I'm not paid to do it
anyway.
An amateur can, however, ballpark the shadow issue to some degree, with
a bit of squinting. It may help those interested in the issue evaluate
th
In a message dated 11/13/2007 11:42:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wouldn't seasons of the year and Daylight/Standard Time variations factor
in? I do know that the Earth's axis is at a different angle to the Sun during
the different seasons, and that because the
Tony,I was never good at geometry or trigonometry, and I never studied
astronomy, so I don't know enough to be able to speak on this as an expert, so
I have a few questions. What are the formulae you used to come to these
conclusions? Wouldn't seasons of the year and Daylight/Standard Time var
And I will look down the street and see a wall instead of sky through
the trees.
Frankus
Sleek. Edgy. Infinitely flexible.
On Nov 12, 2007, at 9:27 PM, Anthony West wrote:
Aside from traffic, the chief impact of "scale" when a highrise is
placed next to lowrise buildings is shadow.
I pac
