MetroMan
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^ In a couple of years, they'll just "renovate" the brick wall and they'll have a brand new building, without paying the price.
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Dan416
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I was just thinking the exact same.
SP!RE
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Does anyone have a photo of the building that was here before?
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See Post #94 in this thread. It was, most recently, a printing plant.
skyscan
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The hoarding has finally come down.
Tuscani01
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Can this thread be removed permanently from this forum? I'd like to go back to forgetting this building even existed.
neuhaus
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^^^ actually this building is easy to forget.
condovo
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No worse than either of its immediate neighbours. Much better, in fact IMO.
ponyboy
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I thought this is the kind of building many people on this forum would like. It's a glass box with an interesting roof element and some interesting treatment of the lower two levels with a protruding glass box.
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I agree, but still can't understand why they kept the old brick walls (except for City perrmit reasons) and why the hell it took so long.
dahusbandofbath
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So, now that this ho-hum building is pretty much done, doesn't this mean that something is going to happen across the street where Hakeem is now? I thought I recalled this being a two-parter.
ganjavih
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Yeah, blows Torch out of the water. I think it works well... the blend of old brick and new glass.
caltrane74
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Yeah, why complain about this re-do. It's like 20 times better than any building in the surroundings...
alklay
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And ironically, it looks like it will be finished before Torch will ever be completed.
Rubbish. The new and old brick is badly matched, and it's surmounted by 1970s mirror glass. Yeuchh.
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