the ultimate viaduct building

[solarbird]

This is just the ultimate viaduct building in so many ways, isn't it? Above the line, dated, but nice and interesting. Below the line? Cartoonishly empty windows and cement slab.

I mean, sure, it could be a solid wall underneath the levels anyone might ever see, but somehow, the decision to have the barest minimum of openings makes it even so much worse.

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[corvi]

Hahaha. That's hilarious.

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[solarbird]

The funny thing is how much worse it looks than even the brick building to the right of it, despite similarities. That brick building is much older and faces Western, not Alaska, but it got a new rear façade (which is what you're seeing) in the... from the design, I'd say early 1980s.

But note the similarities in window shapes. Even on the new façade, that's original. And the cement building was built to match it! That's how modernists of the early 1970s tried to "fit in" with older buildings in a neighbourhood! Just like the curved pipes on the top deck of the Sinking Ship parking structure in Pioneer Square!)

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(worst. brutalism. evar.)