[KevinFromTexas]

I really don't get the funk on the Bank of America Center. Yes, it is a shapeless black box from the 1970s. But at the time people thought it was cutting edge and ended up redoing the facades of a lot of buildings from the 1920s to 1950s because they felt those buildings were outdated and ugly. It's really sad that those examples of old architectural styles were destroyed when those buildings were renovated. I feel similarly about the Bank of America Center. I know it isn't winning any beauty pageants, but it is one of the few examples of international style architecture that we have from that era. Austin didn't catch the wave of development really until the 1980s. So we already have so little to start with. I would really not want to see us lose any of it.

That said, I am also glad we didn't have many buildings from the 1950s to 1970s. That era of architecture was kind of an afterthought. The designs for just about everything was drab and boring. The only thing that decade had going for it was the music. The few buildings we did get from then weren't so bad. Dobie Center and Chase Bank Tower were both redone.