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Originally Posted by matt602
As dumpy as the City Centre is now I've always thought it was one of the nicest, most sun filled spots you can find indoors downtown. The atrium in Jackson Square near King and Bay comes close but its a little too veritcal to get any natural light like City Centre does. Its a great public space even if the shopping options have been garbage for the past decade and a half.
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Totally agreed - it was always beautifully bright - everything being white inside helped too.
What saddens me is that even though it's dated now it still has more beautiful architecture in the ceiling than anything that will probably ever be built since - which is just.. glass.. and right angles.. or.. odd angles.. craftmanship is dead from a classical pov. To see arches nowadays is almost unheard of. Everything new feels cold and clinical. I wish they had kept a similar skylight motif in the new design, just modernized.