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Originally Posted by JB5pro

I love the design of this building for being logical and pretty instead of the ornately garish stuff they glue on most modern stuff. The new buildings with purposeless stuff glued all over reminds me of those haunted looking buildings from the 1800's an up with gargoyles, etc only alot cheaper looking.
I was pleased to see the building looks exactly the same today. Logical beautiful buildings like that are against the law to preserve where I live... seems that way.

Yep...Up in Kingsport, there was a very nice looking office building that had a similar design, & judging by the photo, it was prolly close to the same age...In the late 70s or '80s, they "Modernised" & "Improved" it by adding sunshades & IMHO TOTALLY ruined its looks...Right down the road, about 1990 or so, Tennessee Eastman built their new corporate headquarters building, a 5 or 6 story brick basic square-@zz box. Well, SOMEBODY decided it didn't make a big enuff "Statement", I guess, so they HAD to add this "Dramatic" entrance- Gotdam thing is positively SCARY lookin'... Looks like what you'd imagine the Klingon High Command palace prolly looks like...Nothing succeeds like excess, I guess...(grin)