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MolsonExport · #**301** Posted **Jan 28, 2009, 1:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by srr

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waaaaaaaat?

srr · #**302** Posted **Jan 28, 2009, 8:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by srr

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Sorry, I was joking. It's interesting that there are some people who aren't fans of the building, though. Ok, for real: how many other people besides me exit the gallery and meet this guy:

and just think: lolwut?

george · #**303** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 3:51 AM**

I hope this isn't sacrilegious, but this hub cap has to go.

Tom Servo · #**304** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 3:56 AM**

haha, are you serious?

Ch.G, Ch.G · #**305** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 4:10 AM**

For real, george, that church is fucking awesome.

mdiederi · #**306** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 6:00 AM**

Stearns Towers, Boulder, Colorado

Photo: sunuprun on flickr

I like the sandstone cladding material, but the design is very out of character for Boulder.

City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada

Krases · #**307** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 6:47 AM**

Oh god yes. We really need a better city hall here in Vegas. I think they will start to build it as soon as that stimulus money gets in place.

Then we won't have a giant concrete monolith!

george · #**308** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 8:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by AdrianXSands

haha, are you serious?

Yes, I'm serious. Got a problem with that? ^

^

Cirrus · #**309** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 10:10 PM**

That church isn't as offensive as most blank concrete buildings, but I wouldn't shed any tears if it were torn down.

The Third Church of Christ Scientist in DC, however, needs to be taken down with impunity ASAP

photo from reason.com

stormkingfan · #**310** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 11:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by srr

NO, not THAT!!! (heeheehee) You could put a platform over the sidewalk, at the level of that blank wall, tilt it to 90 deg to the wall, and you and your friends can play wallyball!

Nowhereman1280 · #**311** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 7:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ch.G, Ch.G

For real, george, that church is fucking awesome.

Even more true if you've ever been inside of it. The interior is almost perfectly preserved from the 60s or 70's whenever it was finished...

george · #**312** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

Even more true if you've ever been inside of it. The interior is almost perfectly preserved from the 60s or 70's whenever it was finished...

I have to admit, I've never been inside. I'll have to take a look, it'll probably give me a new perspective. I think this award winning, Harry Weese design was finished in the late 60's.

Nowhereman1280 · #**313** Posted **Feb 21, 2009, 5:23 PM**

^^^ Yeah, I'm fairly certain that even the upholstery on seats is original, not the greatest color (yellowy green), but true to the era and design none the less.

Don't be shy in going there, the people there are very very friendly and their religion is quite interesting. They don't really even evangelize to you either, they will talk to you on an equal level about religion, but they never preach to you about how you are going to hell or anything. I had to go there a few times for school projects about other religions and I was very impressed with the people and their church.

QuarterMileSidewalk · #**314** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 7:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by mdiederi

City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada

WOW. When you consider The Strip, the sheer irony of this building is its greatest redeeming quality!

QuarterMileSidewalk · #**315** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 8:10 AM**

The building I'd most like to see obliterated (or at the very least thoroughly overhauled) in L.A. is the Westin Bonaventure. I do like the futuristic five-tower configuration somewhat, but that massve lobby/atrium/mall/podium/parking garage/fallout bunker of a base is just a heinous sin of (anti)urban design. The interior seemed confusing, humid and dimly lit, as well, the last time I visited, but I may have been in a grumpy mood...

At least I know where to be if LA ever gets nuked...

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Also, though I'm not from New York, nor have I yet been able to visit, I love the city, with about 6 exceptions.

I just think the South Street Waterfront would've looked SO much better before being buried by those immense boxes. It's not that they're ugly, per se, but that they deformed a really awesome mountain-like skyline, and tore up the Downtown urban fabric. See what it was like in 1959:

(sorry, no idea who's got the copyright on this one... but I love it)

Oh, well. I'm still dying to see NY, though.

george · #**316** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 5:33 PM**

Originally posted by QuarterMileSidewalk.........
Also, though I'm not from New York, nor have I yet been able to visit, I love the city, with about 6 exceptions.

I just think the South Street Waterfront would've looked SO much better before being buried by those immense boxes. It's not that they're ugly, per se, but that they deformed a really awesome mountain-like skyline, and tore up the Downtown urban fabric. See what it was like in 1959:

They do create a wall. With such a prominent location on the waterfront, some sensitive thought could have been given to creating more slender towers to fit in with the neighboring context. But why should developers care about such nonsense.

Dac150 · #**317** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 5:47 PM**

I disagree. I think they are perfect in giving off that powerful and intimidating feel of the Manhattan Financial District from the East River. They're symbols of industry and business. That and I'm a big box fan. I couldn't imagine that area any other way.

nomarandlee · #**318** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 6:09 PM**

If any Chicago forumer could find a photo of Clark Place Apartments on Clark/Wrightwood that would be my pick. Outside of downtown I find it the most disturbing building has completely windowless facade on its north/south ends which completely f'ks up the vista up and down Clark St. What should serve as a bookend to a busy lively northside street interupts it with a thud. What kind of dips build a twenty floor blank wall on the side looking out to downtown?

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=117308

Nowhereman1280 · #**319** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 7:12 PM**

^^^ Oh I totally agree about that. I wouldn't tear it down though. If I had the capital right now, I would buy it, sit on it until the recession is over, then gut it completely and punch windows into the wasteful blank walls, greatly improving the value of the units, then sell it as condos...

QuarterMileSidewalk · #**320** Posted **Feb 22, 2009, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dac150

I disagree. I think they are perfect in giving off that powerful and intimidating feel of the Manhattan Financial District from the East River. They're symbols of industry and business. That and I'm a big box fan. I couldn't imagine that area any other way.

I do like the point you make here. And I'm all for capitalism and big business, myself. I just figure that Midtown could've been the awesome, powerful, intimidating part of the city (which it is, of course- think 6th Avenue) while Downtown could've been a more historic and aesthetically pleasing part... more carefully planned. But nobody asked me...