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I can totally understand why one would dislike it, but personally I'm a huge huge fan. My favorite features: - the lack of glass gives the granite façade lots
by Lammy 5y ago
I can totally understand why one would dislike it, but personally I'm a huge huge fan. My favorite features:
- the lack of glass gives the granite façade lots of space to shine.
- the off-center elevator shafts on the building's two long sides prevents the entire building from being disorienting at street-level: https://i.imgur.com/DQdWQ36.jpg https://i.imgur.com/DQdWQ36.jpg
- the round-rect vent windows contrast with the sharp lines of the granite they're cut from, echoing an overall theme of natural skin versus high-tech innards just like the granite itself versus all the telecom gear inside: https://i.imgur.com/BQmYnuw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BQmYnuw.jpg
- the re-use of the roundrect windows to hide the former Long Lines microwave horn antennas on the roof of the building, coupled with a Disneyland-style perspective trick where the microwave windows are double the height of the vent windows so they look identically-square when you're on the street looking up: https://i.imgur.com/6TYn6Ug.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6TYn6Ug.jpg
Absolutely gorgeous building, probably my favorite in the entire city <3
- AlanYx 5y agoThe roundrects give the design a deep kind of uncanny valley effect for me. They suggest some kind of human characteristic, either a hooded face or an orifice of some type, depending on the angle that you look at the building. From street level (e.g., your first photograph), it's like a series of six hooded figures, with another six hooded figures towering over those figures or standing on their backs.
- Lammy 5y ago> it's like a series of six hooded figures, with another six hooded figures towering over those figures Yeah I can see it, especially with the "33" street address. Druids love that shit, like 555 Cal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_California_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_California_Street