This week, as Goldberg’s famous work is pulled apart by wreckers, nothing about its loss seems symmetrical or graceful. Within 40 years, the building transitioned from a proud symbol of civic renewal and design innovation to the victim of old-fashioned Chicago politics. The controversy surrounding the demolition of Prentice, however, injected the preservation movement into an urban design discussion with a presence not seen in a long time. — nextcity.org
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"Prentice Hospital Could Become Modern Architecture’s ‘Penn Station Moment’"
If that's true, that's a sad testament to the Modernist style of architecture. Comparing this concrete bunker to Penn Station is about as delusional as House Republicans lately.
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