Rouse Company Headquarters
Description:
Frank Gehry building that was designed as the headquarters for the Rouse company. It was the corporate hq for the development of the planned community of Columbia MD. It has sinced changed hands multiple times and been the General Growth Properties Bulding and the Howard Hughes Company Building. It is the white building on the left in the picture above.
Additional pictures can be found be searching "Rouse Company Headquarters" or "Columbia Lakefront"
Why this would be beneficial for the game or community:
The architecture of this building is unlike any I have seen on the stex before. It is unique, with trees on the 2nd and 3rd floor terraces, arbors around the building with wisteria growing on them, and an outdoor sculpture (a calder work I think). It also provides a mid size office building to the community, which is often lacking in an exchange dominated by skyscrapers.
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Low Rise Public Housing
Description:
Two to three story public housing built around courtyards in sprawling complexes. Ideally on large lots (4x4 or larger) with rundown common areas. Examples include the Latrobe Homes and McCulloh Homes in Baltimore, or the Magnolia or Calliope Projects in New Orleans.
Why this would be beneficial for the game or community:
There is a deficiency of low wealth, medium density, large lots. So many of the low wealth large lots are giant project buildings. There are many cities around the US that primary build these type of sprawling complexes to accomodate their public housing needs. It would add a lot of realism to low wealth neighborhoods in our cities
