Urban Indy

The project at 1201 Indiana Avenue is quite large in scale.  Designed to house students in a mixed-use structure, it features 253 units in a location that previously occupied Lincoln Tech.  Here’s the best rendering we can find: One quibble is that the parking area on the north side of the project is quite large, and they demolished out a number of single-family houses for the lot. So, it’s not quite the prototype of good urbanism. … Read entire article »

The Glick Eye Institute is currently under construction on the IUPUI Campus.  The top 3 floors of it are an attractive arrangement of glass, but the entry floor is mostly a blank wall of bricks.  I believe this is more of a statement of the current auto-orientation of Michigan Street than anything else.  Walking around the area feels dangerous.  Regardless, I thought I share the photos that I took last week  What do you think? … Read entire article »