St. Pete Pier

Anyone heard of this? St. Pete is building a big fancy new Pier this year. They challenged world famous architects to design it in a competition and the winner was chosen recently. I think they just recently finalized the plan with city hall.

I figured I'd share this with you guys; the design is pretty neat. I think they are trying to include a "natural aquarium" that will be in the center of the pier for people to look at too (the bit about that is on page 37 of the link below).

http://www.stpete.org/pierdesign/docs/Michael_Maltzan_Architecture.pdf

It looks so cool

I'd heard about and seen images of the new Pier, but I didn't know it was going to incorporate a reef. Super cool!

I feel like this was altered a bit from their original idea.. which is good because I remember not liking it before. I don't think the crests at the top were there at first.. lends itself a lot to the design!

I really think this is super cool. There's a lot of things to do and stuff to see that really make this a destination. I would love to go there sometime. Too bad they probably wont even start the construction until I'm long gone I couldn't figure out in their timeline where "approved by city hall" was :/

The website mentioned construction starting early spring, this could be outdated information however.