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Bravo.

Looks like it finally rained!

Finally, a quality post. I was specifically trying to avoid maligning anyone personally for their views, that's not why I come here. But somehow that's how a few people took it. I get it, this is a hard building to love. All the more reason that there needs to be an educated discussion about...

Now those are townhouses!

I genuinely love the fact that the giant solar panels on the roof make it look like this building has a beautiful, oversized cornice.

Ah yes, a townhouse. Words are meaningless.

My opinion is just as worthless as anyone else's.

Yeah, except, if I may extend the premise of that meme, I DID go to that school and as an alumni, my opinion is just as valid as anyone still going to that school.

I agree with the premise of the argument, but I also think that this specific case is more of a design challenge than simply a case of a building which cannot be reused.

So? That mean's I've been places that know how to do things differently than what you would otherwise know. It's called perspective.

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...

I stopped trying to convince people that "ugly" buildings are worth saving because most people can't get past the cover of a book. The discourse about architecture on this forum stopped a generation ago and now all people care about is how tall a new tower is. Architecture, everywhere, is dead...

You can never go home.

Next time I come up I might just have to take the bus to get a look at these new towers from the road!

For the same reason the whole thing wasn't in a tunnel: the Orange Line is in the way.

L O L The fuck it does. This doesn't do shit for the platforms or tracks; it adds nothing to the system. The Gateway Tunnel is an entirely separate project. The entire Penn expansion project should not be happening.

If you want more influence then you need deep pockets to buy politicians. Advocacy is great, but you need someone who cares in power.

Can you zip up my back?

I guarantee that if a child had designed a building it would be more "interesting" than this.

I have noticed this too. The ads also obscure certain buttons on the site.