Corrine Drive is becoming the issue du jour for urban design fans, Audubon Park residents and the City. For years a group called the Corrine Calming Coalition (Facebook | Website) has been lobbying the City to redraw the road by removing lanes and favoring pedestrians over cars. The road is sitting on top of a […]
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Posted inI Wish This Was, I Wish This Was, Ivanhoe Village
I Wish This Was … a derby ramp
I Wish This Was is a weekly series of badly photoshopped images that transform ignored, vacant lots and properties in Orlando into something the City Beautiful can be proud of. Last week we wrote about the upcoming closure of the I-4 East-bound exit ramp for Ivanhoe Village.
Posted inFeatured, I Wish This Was, Orlando, Uncategorized
I Wish This Was … an Apple store … or a Sweet Tomatoes
The Church Street Exchange building [Gmap] is quickly filling up with some of the best tech minds of Orlando. The Canvs co-working space (Website), a Bumble and Bumble school, Trend Studios, and a juice bar are some of the gems within this historic building. Yet there are still some holes we’d like to […]
Posted inAudubon Park, Colonialtown North, Featured, I Wish This Was, Mills 50, Orlando
I Wish This Was … a pickup hockey game
It’s not breaking news that Bumby Avenue is closed for almost two years for resurfacing, it’s been the talk of the town, we even wrote about it HERE, last week. But it got us thinking …
Posted inFeatured, I Wish This Was, I Wish This Was, Orlando
I Wish This Was … a monument, instead of mulch
Winter Park, Orlando and a lot of other Central Florida communities are losing their mature tree canopy, little by little, each year. A few years ago, the Director of Urban Forestry for the City of Winter Park even estimated that 30 percent of the canopy would disappear over the next few years.
Posted inDowntown, I Wish This Was
I Wish This Was … a giant swimming pool
I Wish This Was is a weekly series of badly photoshopped images that transform ignored, vacant or sometimes already occupied lots and properties in Orlando into something the City Beautiful can be proud of. First, we want to say, this is just pie-in-the-sky brainstorming. We don’t think this is going to happen. We don’t hate […]
Posted inColonialtown North, Colonialtown South, Garden, I Wish This Was, Ivanhoe Village, Mills 50
I Wish This Was … the tabebuia capital of the world
You may have noticed last week that all of the social medias were full of pretty yellow-flowered trees. Usually the photos featured a stand-alone tree, glowing in all it’s awesome yellowness, heralding spring in Central Florida. We wish there was a way we could see hundreds, if not thousands of them in one place, at […]
Posted inI Wish This Was, I Wish This Was, Mills 50
I Wish This Was … a community hangout, with a taco window!
I Wish This Was is a weekly series of badly photoshopped images that transform ignored, vacant lots and properties in Orlando into something the City Beautiful can be proud of. This 7,560 SF vacant warehouse [Gmap] was built in 1969. It most recently housed a Tire Kingdom, as evidenced by the old window decals and awning, but […]
Posted inFarmers Market, Featured, Food & Drink, Garden, I Wish This Was, Milk District
I Wish This Was … an urban orchard
We love parks … but, some parks were created a little less equal than others. Festival Park in the Milk District [Gmap] is one of the largest parks in the City of Orlando, but it also happens to be one of the ugliest. Kept spartanly clean with a mow and blow maintenance plan, the 16-acre […]
Posted inDowntown, I Wish This Was, Orlando
I Wish This Was … a solar parking lot
We’re lucky to have our Bungalower desks located at Canvs (Facebook | Website) in the Church Street Exchange building [Gmap] downtown. One of the many benefits of working at the downtown co-working space is that whenever we need to run an errand, we can use an Orlando Bike Share (Website) bike to pedal around downtown. Which […]
Posted inDowntown, Featured, I Wish This Was
I Wish This Was … a projection park
This week we wish the empty lot on the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street [Gmap] could be something a bit more people friendly … something pop-up friendly that activates the corner with a rotating series of programming. We’d like to see it transformed into a “projection park”. The walls could be whitewashed and […]
Posted inArt and Culture, Downtown, Featured, I Wish This Was, Roads
I wish this was … a visual speedbump
With the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at one of its corners, the plaza at the intersection of South and Orange is really grand. Unfortunately, you don’t notice how great the civic space is until you’re passing it by. We’d love to see a visual speed bump at this intersection as a gateway […]
Posted inFeatured, I Wish This Was, I Wish This Was, Mills 50
I wish this was … a pop up movie theater!
This 5,352 square foot commercial lot [Gmap] was built in 1958 and was once a laundromat More recently it had a short stint as a weekend farmers market run by Eat More Produce (Facebook), but now stands empty. With Will’s Pub (Facebook | Website) and Lil Indies right next door, we’d love to see some sort of […]
Posted inGarden, Parks, Thornton Park
I wish this was: A concert garden
This empty commercial lot across from the Thornton Park Dexters [Gmap], has been vacant for years. It’s prime real estate (OCPA Info) that we assume will be developed into another mixed-use building like the condos across the street.
Posted inArchitecture and Design, Ask Bungalower, Buildings, Farmers Market, Featured, Food & Drink, I Wish This Was, I Wish This Was, Milk District, Our Take, Real Estate
I wish this was … a beer garden
This is the first of a new Candy Chang-inspired series of badly Photoshopped concepts for underused, vacant buildings and spaces in Orlando’s bungalow neighborhoods that we wish we could do ourselves, but can’t because we lack the funds. So we’re giving you our ideas, to do with as you will. This week’s “I wish this was” […]