Just Architecture
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Leo
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Leo
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padraig (u.s.)
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^the Chicago two are the Tribune Tower and Marina Towers. Been in both many times. Tribune Tower is being converted to luxury condos like every other thing, now that physical newspapers are no longer really a thing. Marina Towers is surprisingly grody on the inside, very 70s (like the outside), like a shabby version of a Ballard high-rise.
shakahislop
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the handful i've been to are quite different from one another i think. the thing they have in common is that i suppose they had to be rebuilt from scratch in the 50s and 60s. hanover is quite amazing in that it was pretty much entirely destroyed and it's quite characterless as a result. in hamburg on the other hand, it seemed to me that they'd taken the opportunity to do some interesting stuff.
whenever i've been to germany the overriding impression i get is how utilitarian and stark the cities are by european standards, berlin being the big exception to that. the fact that so many of them were blown up by the RAF is probably why.
there's a bit in that dee dee ramone book about him growing up in the rubble of one of those german cities, and then ending up in the 80s east village and feeling right at home
Leo
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a transportation hub, at ground zero
shakahislop
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it's a shopping center that quite annoyingly hides a subway line i can never find when i need it. it's next to where the world trade center was, i guess they had to build something there out of the rubble
quite like the oculus i guess, brings something new to the table at least. aside from the very frustrating content of the museum, that whole new development is pretty good, the 9/11 memorial is such an incredible bit of art for something that you'd expect to be so much less tasteful and more jingoistic given the american mood at the time, kicks the arse out of all the stuff in the galleries
shakahislop
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finally figured out how to compress images to upload here. mosques in central asia are unsurpassed for me, though i know rich you're going for new stuff and this isn't very new. this style that you have in iran, afghanistan and uzbekistan is glorious to me. the fact that they're public buildings as well is cool. generally the muslim world nails it when it comes to patterns.