My, Hasn't It Grown! RSA Battlehouse Tower Update - Page 15

Alxx611 · #**281** Posted **Jan 10, 2006, 1:12 AM**

one of those pics is bound to be the background on my desktop.

SouthSky · #**282** Posted **Jan 12, 2006, 6:55 PM**

Does anyone know the approximate current height of the RSA Tower? How long is it until it surpasses Birmingham's Southtrust (ahem... Wachovia) Tower for the lead in height in the state?

pkp · #**283** Posted **Jan 12, 2006, 7:05 PM**

I'd say its already there.

SouthSky · #**284** Posted **Jan 12, 2006, 7:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by pkp

I'd say its already there.

Really? Hmm... well, I've got to catch up on Mobile events while in town this week.

Dystopos · #**285** Posted **Jan 12, 2006, 8:21 PM**

Anybody see the picture that ran in todays Birmingham News that was taken by a Mobile Register photographer from the RSA tower's top, looking down on the Amsouth Bank Building (or was it the Marriott... the paper's in my car) surrounded by dense fog?

I can't find it online. I'll scan it tonight if I get a chance.

SouthSky · #**286** Posted **Jan 12, 2006, 8:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dystopos

Anybody see the picture that ran in todays Birmingham News that was taken by a Mobile Register photographer from the RSA tower's top, looking down on the Amsouth Bank Building (or was it the Marriott... the paper's in my car) surrounded by dense fog?

I can't find it online. I'll scan it tonight if I get a chance.

Yea, it was on the front page of the Metro section of the Register, I believe. It was a great photo... that's awesome that the News ran it, too.

The Register doesn't normally run pictures online, but they sometimes post front pages on the Register section of al.com

oh... and it is the AmSouth Bank Building, by the way.

elb401 · #**287** Posted **Jan 12, 2006, 9:52 PM**

please post it!!

Dystopos · #**288** Posted **Jan 13, 2006, 4:00 AM**

Here's the photo. I'm guessing it was run bigger in the Mobile paper, and they probably actually proofread the caption for grammatical errors.

Musicisright · #**289** Posted **Jan 13, 2006, 4:35 AM**

Cool picture. Thanks for posting.

elb401 · #**290** Posted **Jan 13, 2006, 5:23 AM**

neat pic....looks really old...i know its not

Muskavon · #**291** Posted **Jan 13, 2006, 9:26 PM**

man, the Amsouth building has always been pretty ugly, but that pic gives it a whole new angle of ugliness. But a cool pic regardless.

pkp · #**292** Posted **Jan 13, 2006, 9:45 PM**

Yeah -the building is pretty ugly. The broad side isn't quite as bad, but it's really a product of the time it was built.

elb401 · #**293** Posted **Jan 14, 2006, 1:28 AM**

agreed....its the ugliest building I have ever seen. The building they destroyed to build it was so pretty. But in those days they wanted "progress".

Dystopos · #**294** Posted **Jan 14, 2006, 1:36 AM**

...and someday you'll wonder how you ever hated this classic late-modern style.

sahara727 · #**295** Posted **Jan 14, 2006, 1:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by elb401

agreed....its the ugliest building I have ever seen. The building they destroyed to build it was so pretty. But in those days they wanted "progress".

yeah, i know what you're talking about. the building you're probably referring to was the U.S. Customs House. i think it was built in the 1830's---had an antebellum look to it. it was just one of many beautiful structures lost to the slash and burn urban renewal that literally sacked downtown mobile. it was brutal.

CrimsonARC · #**296** Posted **Jan 14, 2006, 3:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dystopos

...and someday you'll wonder how you ever hated this classic late-modern style.

Re: the Urban Renewal movement which wanted to tear out all of those ugly and obsolescent warehouse buildings we now inhabit as lofts.

Paul in S.A TX · #**297** Posted **Jan 17, 2006, 11:58 PM**

I drove right past it in july 2005.Shouldn't the skeleton be almost complete.

jmbreland · #**298** Posted **Jan 19, 2006, 6:38 AM**

Whoa! Great pic, thanks for posting! I'll definitely call Mobile Register and order a print of that pic. It's too good to pass up.

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Originally Posted by Muskavon

man, the Amsouth building has always been pretty ugly, but that pic gives it a whole new angle of ugliness.

Exactly my thought, well said, Muskavon. I believe that one day soon, that building WILL get a facelift, since the consensus seems to be almost unanimous about its ugliness.

Musicisright · #**299** Posted **Jan 19, 2006, 6:54 AM**

And it's gonna seem even uglier sitting next to the RSA Tower.

jmbreland · #**300** Posted **Jan 19, 2006, 7:28 AM**

Some bonus photos of Mobile's skyline:

WKRG TV 5's webcam atop Eastern Shore Infirmary in Daphne (01-18-2006)

Live webcam at The Nautilus restaurant in Daphne (01-18-2006)

Click here to view the interactive webcam!

Dusk snapshot from US 90 (10-10-2005)