Past Project: Riverfalls Tower - Phase II
Following up last week's walk down memory lane we again take you back to the early 70's in downtown Spokane. New to the scene were urban high-rise apartments that much like today's condos were expected to make urban living appealing again. Only then, developers were going seriously vertical and making some dramatic changes to the Spokane skyline. Notable projects included the 20-story Park Tower Apartments, the 16-story Cathedral Plaza, the 11-story Chateau, and finally the 16-story Riverfalls Tower Phase I.
The photo above taken from a 1970's periodical shows the existing Riverfalls Tower Phase I, and next to it the proposed Riverfalls Phase II that to this day has yet to break ground. At the time Phase II was to have 60 garden apartments each with a view. Quite possibly this was just a conceptual model, just like this one we mentioned earlier. Both designed by Warren Heylman and both very different in form. Phase II makes us think: If Bob Newhart were filming a sitcom in Spokane in the early 70's...
I have a quite a few mixed feelings about such a hulking truck radiator of a building dwarfing the surrounding neighborhood (not shown). Thank goodness it doesn't exist! If the necessary funding were available, would they still be allowed to build it?
*stomach flops*
Posted by: Mariah McKay | November 26, 2007 at 07:54 AM
looks like bleachers!! LOL...that would have been horrible!!
Posted by: Rachel | November 26, 2007 at 11:36 AM
yum, this picture is delicious! it reminds me of this.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a390/abertas_666/Expo_67_Kaleidoscope_Pavilion_003.jpg
where did you find that picture by the way?
Posted by: Alberto | November 26, 2007 at 03:55 PM
That phase shown has Pullman dorms written all over it, or hints of a possible Davenport Tower 2.
Posted by: FormerSpokanite | November 27, 2007 at 07:49 PM