URBAN RENEWAL OF CHENNAI CBD - LITERATURE STUDY & CASE STUDY REPORT

LITERATURE STUDY 1 - CITY CREEK CENTER (Renewal) Literature study 2- Jaipur , The pink city (Renewal)
About Site Before renewal Number of people flow to the temple square, traffic congestion Background Central jaipur History of pink color Why pink even today?
increased gradualy to a great extent.
The malls - Crossroad plaza & ZCMI malls are of horizontal Jaipur is the fine example for the Every building within the walled historic The historical reason for the uniform Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II first Keen and sharp visitors may question how
Salt lake city is the capital of Utah,US. north temple st consideration that the heritage has centre is painted a terracotta “pink” colour of central Jaipur lies with the strategy was to ensure Albert would or even what why Jaipur maintained its
development with 2 to 3 floor height that led to lack of open
First settlement took place around Salt temple lake on a block not been destroyed in process of colour and there are few exceptions to absolute power of the Maharaja (Sawai visit Jaipur and to succeeded in this he distinct pink colour after the visit by Prince
called Temple Square. Temple square space at core of the city,
modernization and planning of the city. this uniformly colour scheme. Ram Singh) over his capital and his constructed a lavish concert hall and Albert 130 years ago. The answer lies with
Core of Salt The plan called for the demolition of the ZCMI Center Mall and the
This is the centerpiece with its southeast corner as the initial extreme strategy to impress Prince Albert named it in honour of the prince. The Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh’s favourite
Crossroads Plaza Mall by the end of 2008.
point of the metropolitan city. lake city

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Also slated for demolition of the historic 1st Security building which it boasts of magnificent architecture This colour is so significant to the heritage during his 1876 tour of India. exquisite Albert Hall stands amid the wife who adored the colour scheme.

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All major development took place around the temple square. and is the one of the most renowned of the city that it is enforced under local carefully laid out grounds of the Ram The queen with her private ear to the
south temple st reflets the heritage of salt lake city
It also houses a Assembly Hall which hosts free weekend music historic planned city of India from the 18th law. Prince Albert spent a mammoth 17 weeks Niwas Public gardens and can be visited maharaja convinced him to pass a law
concerts with approximate of 2000 seats.
Cross- ZCMI Retail century conducting royal duties throughout the by tourist today. With Prince Albert making it illegal for buildings to be painted
roads center Considering the woes and inadequate Indian subcontinent but he grew tired enticed to Jaipur, the Maharaja set about any other colour than Jaipur Pink. This law
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The plot next to temple plaza mall The graceful architecture of the City that infrastructure of Jaipur it may appear and lonesome of his official engagements beautifying his city and this included passed in 1877 still remains in effect today
square was a commercial runs across in pink colour has earned baffling to visitors as to why there is such a as he was without his dear wife, Victoria. repainting the entire city. and helps transform the otherwise polluted
zone - 2 popular shopping 100 S Jaipur the title of “The Pink City“. coherent colour scheme running through For Indian leaders this was an ideal The colour chosen was a terracotta and dirty city into the pink city, albeit a

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Urban Renewal project mall with no. of retail & the city. opportunity to strengthen ties to the pink as this colour historically represents grimy shade of pink.
Name - City Creek Center (CCC) anchor shops. However A tag of World Heritage Site British aristocracy and gain personal welcoming and hospitality. The paint
Architects - ZGF Architects, Callison, Hobbs + Black The streets of these plots are adds to the value of city in global tourism This actually attracts a large no. of tourists acquaintances with the Royal family. was produced from a calcium oxide Restoration
Architects, FFKR Architects, SWA famous for street commercial map, drawing in business along with pride from India as well outside of India which The Maharaja of Jaipur was one of the compound and is extremely durable in
Client - The Church of Jesus Christ activities attracting visitors of for the residents. is quite profitable for govtnment, people richest and most powerful men in India the arid conditions of Jaipur. In 2006 book Jaipur Nama: Tales from
Site area - 20 acre (80937.12 sq.m) church. and city itself. and he impressed the British court like no the Pink City, Tillotson also noted a time in
Year of completion - 2012 march On 2006, the church other. the late 19th century when Jaipur almost
Location - Downtown Salt lake city, Utah, US announced to redevelop abandoned the whole pink project en-
Co-ordinates the 20 acre land next to tirely:
Latitude - 40 deg 46’5”N temple square to energize
Longitude - 111 deg 53’28”W the economy of the city and “On one occasion, in 1868, the then Ma-
Nearest transit station - citty center light train to strengthen the area near haraja, Ram Singh II, recklessly suggested
station within the site at main street Temple Square. that the wash might be varied a bit, with
different quarters of the city being paint-
After renewal Demolition
ed in different colors; but by 1870 this ex-
periment was recognized as a hideous
Destruction proceeded across mistake and the pink was restored ... But
Number of Office Tower - 4 Number of Office block - 2 Number of Residential tower -6
the site from west to east on underneath the range of acrylic powder
north temple st Number of Retail block - 2 Number of Anchor shop - 2 Number of Pedestrain entry -8
feb 2007 pinks there are traces of the geru, or terra-
Number of Parking entry - 6 Retail - 9,28,000 sq.ft
Temple square cotta pink, which was indeed original.”
Core of Salt Office - 2,00,000 sq.ft
lake city Pedestrain entry Parking - 5,600 vehicles
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residential units - 300

Heritage cities
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south temple st Ramp to Parking

Retail shops - 110 +
Residential While Jaipur is India’s only “Pink City,” it’s
not the only monochromatic metropolis
City creek center
Hospitality in the country. In Rajasthan, there’s the
“Blue City” of Jodhpur, the “White City”
100 S Retail of Udaipur, and the “Yellow City” of Jais-

Site accessibility Criticism almer

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Office The architectural heritage of these blocks is
An indoor-outdoor mix of retailers, residences and office being completely lost in this development
space, with six acres of open space — gardens, fountains, specifically mentioning the loss of the Inn at
pedestrian walkways and a mock City Creek running down Temple Square and the First Security building,
the middle of the site also known as the Deseret Building Calling
the building a “gem” of classical revival
To reduce the size of the large blocks in Salt Lake City 2
blocks are fragmented to 8 blocks architecture

Internal streets - Regent Street and Richards Street are only for The development favored national retail chains
pedestrain not for vehicles and did not incorporate enough locally owned
Landscape architecture and urban design services, businesses who have been suffered
organized the site along the city’s street-grid to keep City
Creek Center integrated to the urban fabric
Overhead pedestrian walkways disrupted
Proposed Mixed use development with lower commercial certain view corridors or discourage street-level
floor & upper residential & office towers commertial activity
Vertical development that reduces the ground coverage
with efficient use of space

PROPOSED BUILDING Literature Study 3- Fort worth, Texas, US Renewal

Richard court Richard Building Zions bank Underground parking Pedestrain Galleria Fort worth Give them a place worth walking Sundance West
5,600 vehicle spaces that are located on the A 1.2 km waterway traversing the property as a pedestrian-
Richard court was designed to The long-term goal of the master plan was to revitalize downtown, bringing Downtown Fort Worth lacked continuity, activity and, most of all, Year of completion - 1988
two blocks underground. oriented six acres of open space: gardens and lawns clustered
channel pedestrian traffic from temple around the clock residential, commercial, entertainment and culture back to walkability. Type - Residential appartments with retail &
parking is mixed use, serving monthly, daily around water features
square to the City Creek Center with the heart of the city. The existing street grid was interrupted by multi-block parking decks; entertainment
the two residential buildings on each and residential use
side History surface parking lots and indoor shopping malls created unfriendly street
edges for pedestrians.
Area - 400,000 sqft
Floors - 12
Fort Worth began like There was an overall lack of public-oriented uses along the streets. Residential units - 90
many frontier towns, After a thorough study of property ownerships, existing uses, open Materials - Brick & limestone
originally a military space, historic districts, and pedestrian and vehicular movements, we Parking - a 200-space underground parking
outpost, the city later established a master planning program that focused on knitting back garage
became a major stop together the disparate areas of downtown by proposing a series of Architetural elements - Gable roofs, pediments,
along the Chilsom new development projects that would both energize downtown as well recessed balconies and architectural ornament
Cattle Train, earning as mend the broken pedestrian environment. Style - A careful weave of Victorian and
it the moniker of The master plan also identified new sites that needed to be acquired in modernism
Type - Residential
No. of blocks - 2 Gateway east tower
‘Cowtown’ along the
way.
order to complete the plan.
Sundance Square Plaza
No. of units - 90 (45+45) Type - Office World trade
Key bank
tower The discovery of oil just Public outdoor Gathering space
No. of Storey - 11 each No.of Storey - 18 center UNDER- 90 miles west in 1917 Year of completion - 2013
Height - 38 m each Height - 81 m
GROUND
brought about the city’s Type - Civic/ Cultural
PARKING
post-modern style second boom. Area -55,000 sqft
99 west World trade center stone and glass facade ZCMI
PEDESTRAIN
GALLERIA
Retractable Roof Design of this space addresses
ZIONs bank FACADE The Regent Oil companies, supporting banks and businesses setup shop downtown, & expresses the shared cultural
Gateway west Type - Office building residential tower
transforming the city into a busting 20th-century metropolis. values and aspirations of the
No.of Storey - 22 Fort Worth was however not immune to the flight to the suburbs that Fort Worth community and
Type - Office Height - 98 m characterized the year immediately after World War II. fulfills the complex tasks of
No.of Storey - 20 Material - Brick Gateway
This exodus from downtown brought about decades of urban blight and high
west tower accommodating large events
Height - 102 m vacancies.
SKY New office as well as day to day use of
Modernist style MAIN BRIDGE
tower
STREET the plaza that calls for a more
Urban renewal intimate scale.
LIGHT RAIL To address downtown Fort Worth’s ever worsening decline, city official The plaza is an amenity, both
TRAIN Designed to be openable so
retained many of the brightest planning minds of the time. functionally and aesthetically for
that the interior connects to the
RETRACTABLE These 1960s-savants made numerous recommendations, the most outrageous the entire surrounding Sundance
CANOPY outdoor.
of which was proposed by Victor Gruen, the father of the American indoor Square neighborhood.
National recognition in the 2013
SKY WALK shopping mall.
Promontary
residential tower
Innovative Design in Engineering
and Architecture with Structural
Gruen’s plan ringed downtown with a series of massive parking garages fed Dickies multi-purpose arena
directly by freeways. Cars and trucks would be banned from the streets and Year of completion - 2020
Steel awards program
downtown would become a pedestrian paradise – or so it was envisioned. Type - Civic / Cultural, Sports /
Sky bridge Fortunately, Gruen’s plan proved too expensive and wasn’t implemented. Entertainment
The skybridge connects the 2 upper floors of the shopping Nonetheless, ‘urban renewal’ continued in the city as numerous blocks were Area- 716,000 sqft
center across Main Street and acts as a pedestrian connector levels for redevelopment – much of which never happened. Seats - 14,000
Type - Residential
Materials - Glass wall Entire city blocks were paved over and converted to parking lots. Materials - brick & stone
No.of Storey - 30 Residence
tower A handful of glass high-rise office buildings were erected, as was an indoor Facade style - Art Deco
No.of units - 185 WATER
FEATURE shopping mall that occupied three full city-blocks and literally severed a Parking - 2200 cars
Height - 114 m
Brick Facade Nordstrom
portion of downtown from itself.
To serve all these new developments, along came some rather sizable, multi-
Projects Green space - 3 acre

The Regent block parking garages that spanned over streets and were connected to all Sundance West (1991) The Commerce building
Type - Mixed use Nordstrom this new real estate with sky-bridges. Sanger Lofts (1993)
Year of completion - 2013
No.of Storey - 23
Residential - 20 floors
Type - Commercial Marriot hotel “Texans don’t walk” Sundance East (1993)
Wells Fargo Building (1995) Type - Mixed-Use- Office /
No.of Storey - 2 Retail / Hospitality
No.of units - 150 In 1985, David Schwarz was meeting with client at their downtown Fort Worth Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Performance Hall (1998)
Commercial - 3 floors
Marriot International Hotel Water fountain office. When heading to lunch, the client asked David was heading to the
street and not the parking garage.
Maddox-Muse Center (2001)
National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame (2001)
Area - 84,000sqft
Floors - 5
Height - 81 m
Curtain Glass Facade Dancing David told him that he would be walking to lunch – just a couple of blocks Chase Bank Building (2002) The massing of the building
Style - Modernism water away. Tarrant County Family Law Center (2005) is broken into 3 parts with
Type - Hospitality
Gold LEED certified fountain with The client replied to David that if he was going to do work in Texas, the first Sid Richardson Museum (2006) 5-story facade in the
No.of floors - 16
Parking - Underground music attracts thing he needed to learn was that “Texans don’t walk” – they drive. Carnegie Building (2009) center of the block that
Height - 80 m
the visters Lon Evans Corrections Center (2012) steps down to a 3-story
The only hotel
forming a That exchange stuck with David and he soon came to realize that the reason Sundance Square (2013) façade next to the Land
located in the
public realm Texans don’t walk (to get to places that is) is that planners and architects The Commerce Building (2013) Title Building and a 4-story
City Creek
space of hadn’t given them any places worth walking. The Westbrook (2013) façade to the north on 3rd
Center
interaction. This realization became a key underpinning to the downtown Fort Worth The Cassidy & the Trust Building (2014) Street.
Master Plan study. Dickies Arena (2019)
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