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Originally Posted by Jibba
Good grief. Those piers are not well-conceived. And the large, blank expanses of facade are curious. Maybe they have extra room between floor plates for cooking infrastructure?
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I dunno, I think it's a fairly faithful reproduction of early 20th-century industrial architecture, Albert Kahn-esque. There's no facepalm design features and overall it's fairly attractive. It fills in the site nicely, holds both corners, puts the glassy lobby along Ogden, etc. They even used real modular brick instead of that idiotic jumbo utility brick.
And this is essentially an industrial building, with a large commercial kitchen in the basement, parking for trucks on the first level and administrative/office on the top floor. Looks like there's also a penthouse and roof deck that can be used for events.