LOGAN AIRPORT MOVING WALKS COULD BREAK RECORDS
Plans for the Logan International Airport in Boston include building a pedestrian connection between Terminal E and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Blue Line’s Airport Station next door. That link would measure more than 2,600 ft. long and may feature one or multiple moving walks. The Boston Globe reported that if a single one that stretches the entire length of the connection is built, "it would shatter the current global record for the longest moving walkway in a city." Even a series of moving walks stretching from the T station to Terminal E could break a different record for the longest system in the world. The modernization plans require state and federal approval before groundbreaking, scheduled for 2017.
WALES’ TALLEST RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN THE WORKS
Developer Watkin Jones Group hopes to start construction in 2016 on what would be the tallest building in Cardiff, Wales, WalesOnline reports. Located on Customhouse Street next to a Radisson hotel and apartment buildings, the 433-ft.-tall, 42-story building is set to contain student housing and ground-level commercial space. Wales' current tallest building is the 351-ft.-tall Meridian Tower in Swansea. Should it gain approval, the Watkins Jones project is scheduled for delivery in 2018.
MODERNIST SKYSCRAPER PLANNED IN TORONTO
UrbaCon and BRL Realty hope to build a 43-story, 158-m-tall mixed-use tower in the northern part of Toronto's Yorkville neighborhood, Urban Toronto reports. Located at Bay and Scollard streets, the building would have a stepped, modernist appearance with punched windows. Architects are Foster + Partners and RAW Design. Approximately 110 residences, more than 130 parking spaces and amenities are planned. In late 2015, the plan was still in the approval process, and those involved acknowledged the design could change in light of a high-rise-sensitive public school nearby.
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