bigpicture7
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This is quite literally the worst thing that could happen. I've seen these facade-ectamies before and they are a slap in the face of architecture and historic preservation. It's the worst of both worlds. It also assumes that, in 2022, there is any serious architect that could replace this building with anything other than a jumbled mess of mediocrity.
No, I believe you have missed my point. I am not advocating for a facadectomy, nor anything like the proposal put forth above. I'd love to see quality preservation and re-use integral with a reimagining of the full parcel to make it maximally useful (and with housing). My point was that, since a half-assed abomination of a facadectomy is the worst of all worlds, then my second choice would be a near total tear-down with literally a few "sculptures" remaining. You may not agree with me, since clearly you are all in for full preservation (and I respect that). But let me firmly clarify that nothing about what I was saying (as a next-best) was "facadectomy"...I was talking about literally leaving nothing more than a few columns here or there as being better than a botched and mangled facadectoy. (And I am not sure how you ascertained "facadectomy" from my photo of a couple of green line EL posts). Again, peace if we disagree, but let's at least agree on what to disagree about.