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re: 9 of the most beautiful buildings we ever tore down.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 6:49 pm to Scruffy
Posted on 7/2/22 at 6:49 pm to Scruffy
Mid century modern and brutalist architecture is so bad. It's embarrassing... and now most of these building cost too much to tear down and replace.
This post was edited on 7/2/22 at 6:50 pm
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Posted on 7/2/22 at 6:50 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Once again, Bham’s gov’t let’s the people down.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 7:37 pm to chinese58
Amazing!!
Posted on 7/2/22 at 8:32 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Eero Saarinen PanAm terminal at LAX
Posted on 7/2/22 at 8:43 pm to biglego
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I’d rather see the chick in red naked than any of these old buildings
You zoomed in on a very average looking female and that's what went through your head in this thread about architecture...
You either need to get laid or are a hideous looking virgin
Posted on 7/2/22 at 9:21 pm to LoneStarRanger
That’s in Boston correct?
I remember seeing that building when I was there.
Huge building.
I remember seeing that building when I was there.
Huge building.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 9:34 pm to chinese58
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According to the doc., some seated 2000-3000 people. Imagine seeing a movie in a theater with that many people.
I saw a Bollywood blockbuster in Jaipur in a theater like that. It was incredible.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 9:47 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Oklahoma City
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City leaders decided 40 years ago that the Criterion Theater had to go to make way for Century Center Mall.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:03 pm to chinese58
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Watched part of a documentary about old theaters that haven't been torn down, but are rotting away, on PBS one night this week. Can't find it online.
They showed some beautiful ones that had been restored. What struck me about the old theaters was the sheer size of them. According to the doc., some seated 2000-3000 people. Imagine seeing a movie in a theater with that many people.
They were talking about one particular theater, and showing film of what is left of it's hand painted moldings deteriorating faster now, because part of the ceiling caved in.
The Lyric Theatre in Birmingham was saved 5 years ago.
This post was edited on 7/2/22 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:16 pm to LSUBoo
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Mid century modern and brutalist architecture is so bad. It's embarrassing... and now most of these building cost too much to tear down and replace.
Cost isn't the issue. They were cheap to put up, they'll be cheap to tear down. The issue is that the Left loves that Mid-Mod soul-sucking brutalism style. Anytime someone tries to tear one of these monstrosities down, a "preservation movement" starts bitching, and they're all the type that have "COEXIST" bumper stickers. They just love that concrete and glass ugliness. It was the vision of the future that they wanted for everyone. Grey, dingy concrete everywhere.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:17 pm to Scruffy
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The 60s “modernist” movement was started by individuals who viewed these grand buildings as symbols of individualism and pushed for modern crap to replace it.
You have to wonder how much of the skills used to build those old structures has been lost with time.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:22 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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According to the doc., some seated 2000-3000 people. Imagine seeing a movie in a theater with that many people.
I saw a Bollywood blockbuster in Jaipur in a theater like that. It was incredible.
I went to a theater in Hong Kong way back when they were still under British rule. It wasn't THAT big, but probably around 1K. Still huge by American multiplex standards. And like everything else in Hong Kong, it occupied commercial space on the ground floor of a tall multi-story building. This one was older, maybe 1920's vintage, very well kept, and also unlike American theaters, most of the audience space had a very low ceiling, with the back seats having the headspace of a typical living room, and the closer seats dipping down into a kind of pit, so that the people in the back were at eye-level with the upper part of the screen and looking down at it. Movies really are a big communal experience in Asia.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:24 pm to RazorBroncs
I think she’s hot
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:32 pm to DesScorp
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Cost isn't the issue. They were cheap to put up, they'll be cheap to tear down.
They won't be cheap to tear down because reinforced concrete was the palate du jour for most of these buildings. And the cost really comes into play with replacement costs. Construction is through the roof right now.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 11:17 pm to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Memphis Union Station:
Torn down in 1969 and replaced with this fugly piece of shite USPS distribution center:
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The railroads of the 20th century gave us a lot of beauty. Shame it’s mostly gone.
Torn down in 1969 and replaced with this fugly piece of shite USPS distribution center:
The railroads of the 20th century gave us a lot of beauty. Shame it’s mostly gone.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 11:22 pm to Jim Rockford
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I've been told the I-10 right of way was originally going to run right through the French Quarter
Well, you've been told wrong, but it's a common misconception. I-10 was always going down Claiborne, but there was also supposed to be a highway loop that peeled off and went down Elysian Fields, went along the riverfront past the Quarter (not through it), through a TUNNEL under Canal Street and the old Rivergate, then tie into the Pontchartrain Expressway near the bridge.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 11:38 pm to Hangover Haven
Is the Cotton Exchange building in Carondelet (now some hotel) not that building?
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