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Old Posted Jul 19, 2014, 5:46 PM
stormkingfan stormkingfan is offline
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Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox View Post
Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis wins.

with the exception of passing through StP/Minn airport, I've never been to this area, but I figure these blocks might not look that bad from a distance, but up close? Only thing they got going for them is the coloured panels which seem to try to compensate for the Brutalist design.
(yikes! With the extremes in temperature up there, wouldn't one think that all that concrete has been taking on cracks over the past 40 years?)..........

....................nope. In doing a virtual walk round the neighbourhood via googlemaps street view, I found my theory doesn't hold water. They still look like towers which never had their cladding installed. They look like shit.

Last edited by stormkingfan; Jul 20, 2014 at 4:29 PM.
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