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Old Posted Aug 18, 2020, 1:51 PM
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Old Posted Aug 18, 2020, 2:42 PM
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That ersatz castle is awful in every single possible way.
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I love that luxurious "amenities lounge". Apparently curated in the spirit of the Akron, OH Boys and Girls Club, circa 1987.

The rental rates aren't terrible, though. Assuming you don't have an active social life, it probably works.
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Old Posted Aug 18, 2020, 2:58 PM
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Imagine what that place will look like in 20 years, when the concrete starts to stain brown/black, and against the cobalt-grey skies of a Michigan winter.
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Laugh at that building now but the moment zombies start making their appearance, it will be the hottest piece of real estate around.
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Old Posted Aug 18, 2020, 4:15 PM
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outside of a few little clumps in places like evanston, schaumburg, and oak park, suburban chicago generally doesn't do highrises.

but we do have a big one that sticks out like a sore thumb on the pancake flat topography of chicagoland's seemingly infinite sprawltopia.

"how did something that tall and expensive get built in the relative middle of nowhere?"


Oak Brook Terrace Tower | 418 FT | 31 FLOORS | 1986

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how about your metro, do you have any lonely suburban sore thumb towers?
So just to comment on Steely's OP. . . I think there should be - and I can't tell if this has been addressed at length in the posts since - a difference between calling something a "sore thumb" vs. what I'd refer to as simply a "landmark". . .

So when driving across the country and I come across something like a casino, high rise building, communications tower (or otherwise) outside of an obvious urban area I tend to see that as more of a "landmark". . . as I do with One Tower Lane in Oakbrook Terrace (full disclosure, my office is in that building. . . )

Whereas that castle-thing in Michigan recently referenced - regardless of where it's rooted - comes off to me as an obvious "sore thumb" or plain ole' "eye sore". . .

my two cents. . .

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Southeast of Kansas City, outside of the large suburb of Lee's Summit, is a small religious oriented community called Unity Village. While most of the Spanish designed buildings are low rise, the tallest structure is the Unity Tower. While the height is less than 200', you can see this tower for miles. I took this back in 2009



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Old Posted Aug 18, 2020, 6:57 PM
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In the city of Memphis, several miles southeast of downtown, there are 2 buildings, side by side... the Clark Tower, at 400', and White Station Tower, at 280'. Both towers rise up in the middle of suburbia!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_...his,_Tennessee)

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What's with the awful concrete work on the Michigan castle, by the way? It almost looks unfinished, like there's a coating that never got applied or something.
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Old Posted Aug 19, 2020, 1:53 AM
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Maybe they could save it by finishing the walls with stucco or plaster not unlike what happened to real-life manor houses in the English countryside in the 18th and 19th century? Then do some kind of fake copper patina on the roof?
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What's with the awful concrete work on the Michigan castle, by the way? It almost looks unfinished, like there's a coating that never got applied or something.
Probably helps protect it from the flaming catapulted torches launched during the occasional castle stormings that sometimes plague Western Michigan when the Chicago Saxons and the Detroit Normans get into one of their little tiffs.

Better to have bare/exposed concrete than something flammable like thatched roofs, paint or stucco.

Don't get me started on the damn Ohio Visigoths.
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At least that Michigan Monstrosity incorporates its parking garage podium into the design better than many other highrises.
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Catching up after a week at a cottage and that weird castle has made Monday back at work much worse somehow. Just baffled at every decision made there, and the closeup / interior pics highlight how shoddily built the whole thing looks. Please tell me that this was the result of some development scam instead of someone actually thinking it was a good idea.
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Catching up after a week at a cottage and that weird castle has made Monday back at work much worse somehow. Just baffled at every decision made there, and the closeup / interior pics highlight how shoddily built the whole thing looks. Please tell me that this was the result of some development scam instead of someone actually thinking it was a good idea.
Sorry to have ruined your day! If you doubt the owner's intentions, just watch below. Straight from the horse's mouth! He is sincere. He's never met anyone who didn't want to live in castle - have you!? The reporter only got one thing wrong: this is NOT something I would expect to see rising in downtown Grand Rapids.

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That Mecca clock tower complex is one of the ugliest things ever built. Speaking of kingdoms with ugly new architecture, the Grand Castle Apartments might be the worst offender on the west side of Michigan. Completed in 2018 in Grandville, MI (suburb of Grand Rapids). 15 stories / 178 ft -


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Good Lord.

The only positive is that it is concrete and not the usual match stick apartment building that can burn down quickly
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The project has to be some kind of development scheme, nobody in Grand Rapids understands why it exists.
Worse yet, no balconies! I do like the fact that it's built with concrete!
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Tucson doesn't have much of a skyline at all in the downtown area, but there's a 15 story office building standing at Broadway & Rosemont, 4 miles from downtown, and it looks like it was built in the late 60's, maybe 70's. Only being here 2 years, I have no idea how it got there, or why.
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Catching up after a week at a cottage and that weird castle has made Monday back at work much worse somehow. Just baffled at every decision made there, and the closeup / interior pics highlight how shoddily built the whole thing looks. Please tell me that this was the result of some development scam instead of someone actually thinking it was a good idea.

Every SSPer's nightmare is being forced to live in that castle.
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Tucson doesn't have much of a skyline at all in the downtown area, but there's a 15 story office building standing at Broadway & Rosemont, 4 miles from downtown, and it looks like it was built in the late 60's, maybe 70's. Only being here 2 years, I have no idea how it got there, or why.
From Sentinel Peak, you can kind of see where/how UofA has a skyline. I think the tallest building on/near campus might be Arizona Stadium?
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Good Lord.

The only positive is that it is concrete and not the usual match stick apartment building that can burn down quickly
Wow they sure chose the best colors for this "Castle" why not a red roof, copper roof or brown roof. The blue roof makes it look like this is a trip to disney land.

Also they couldnt add atleast a 2 foot balcony with doors that atleast open, give it a real castle vibe, put "Torch lights" between the windows and it would look great at night, but nope just a quick castle design to get people with money to live in a resort of a castle.
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