probly very cublical

does anybody work inside there?...cool building though

which one of these is responsible?

where's the hole?

this is pre-hole era

i imagine it's very golden.

The only good thing about working in that building is that I wouldn't have to see it outside my window.

this building facinates yet disgusts

it could be fantastic inside. there's no way of telling from that view.

Isn't that the building outside of Pittsburgh on I-279 before the Fort Pitt tunnel?

If not it looks just like it.

I think it's out in Rosemont (Chicago 'burb, near O'Hare), but I could be wrong.

i rather like it but then i like anything that's severe. if i had to work in the suburbs...something like that would be my preferred choice.

of course, as a designer i'm now having fantasies about the interior. although i love the idea of the gold glass concealing some awesome climate controlled lush interior with tropical flowers filling atriums and hanging off of brutalist concrete terraces...if the reality is just one of endless cubicles & suspended acoustical tile ceilings then that might actually be even better. i think i'm feeling a bit nostalgic for those old days when I worked in sales and we had our offices in the most bland of suburban office buildings.

i'm with gin. often the best thing about a building is the view from it.

hahaha.. it does look like I-90

i was browsing a few progressive architecture magazines from the 80's borrowed from my boss and found an ad for PPG Solarban Gold Twindow. it looks like that building used the same product.

here's the pitch...

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One reason for the building's success is 26,000 square feet of energy-conserving PPG Solarban Gold Twindow reflective glass. A breathtaking building skin that, literally, has earned it's way into this design.

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