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What style is this building?

rdenis

The build in the corner with the clock. I am trying to figure out what style the building is.

 
Oct 18, 17 10:17 am
Non Sequitur
Dumpster fire.
Oct 18, 17 10:23 am  · 
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chigurh

LIKE

Oct 18, 17 2:41 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur

sometimes I have moments of brilliance.

Oct 18, 17 10:14 pm  · 
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randomised

When is your homework due?

Oct 18, 17 10:25 am  · 
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joeuk

I like your comebacks. They are exactly how I think, but I also have the home work due! When I know of what I am doing, maybe I will offer some competition.

Oct 18, 17 10:36 am  · 
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Wilma Buttfit

Romanesquish.

Oct 18, 17 10:29 am  · 
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RomaneSQUISH is so perfect.

Oct 18, 17 3:33 pm  · 
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s=r*(theta)

paleolithic

Oct 18, 17 10:32 am  · 
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JLC-1

neoduanyesque

Oct 18, 17 10:36 am  · 
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winner

Oct 18, 17 1:56 pm  · 
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Fascist.

Oct 18, 17 10:44 am  · 
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Volunteer

Beaux-arts more than anything, I believe.

Oct 18, 17 10:58 am  · 
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AdrianFGA

some vague Florentine Renaissance look

Oct 18, 17 1:31 pm  · 
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tduds

Late Capitalism.

Oct 18, 17 6:29 pm  · 
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TIQM

It's classical, feels vaguely Italian Renaissance.

Oct 18, 17 8:20 pm  · 
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nabrU

It looks like Mornington Crescent.

Oct 18, 17 8:50 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur

btw, this is what the buildings currently look like:

http://www.kcra.com/article/bl...


Oct 18, 17 10:18 pm  · 
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won and done williams

Gentrification City, here we come!

Oct 19, 17 8:35 am  · 
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randomised

After seeing the photograph I'm definitely convinced it is an Anthropocene construct.

Oct 19, 17 2:57 am  · 
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So look. I'm not *always* against blank walls (pedagogically, that is - heh), as sometimes they provide needed visual quiet as a counterpoint to vibrancy etc. But generally, as an urbanist, one needs to be anti blank walls on the sidewalk, which is appropriate.

But this historic-ish building veritably *features* a blank wall at sidewalk level along one whole side. There are so many arguments that Modernism is just blank walls, but then one sees an accurate-ish historic style that's entirely predicated on a tall, stable base, resulting in a blank sidewalk wall, and...well, I'm not sure what my point is. It just stuck out to me that most lovers of classical styles would like this corner building even though urbanistically it's pretty bad.



Oct 19, 17 11:13 am  · 
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senjohnblutarsky

And the solution above?? Plop in some Louis Sullivan windows on either side of the centered entry. Another random thought: I swear every bank that guy did seems to occupy a corner lot...

Oct 19, 17 11:18 am  · 
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