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Old Posted Dec 20, 2019, 5:47 PM
Sigaven Sigaven is offline
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Originally Posted by zrx299 View Post
Looks very similar (albeit it shorter) to the tower being built in midtown Atlanta:
https://whatnowatlanta.com/74-story-...dtown-skyline/

74 floors, 980', including an 11 floor parking podium, so its not just Austin getting stuck with those things.
This goes to show it's not just Austin getting these flat blue featureless glass slabs. It's just the state of architecture these days, the design trend is flat blue glass everywhere, all over the globe. Yes there are some delightful exceptions but flat blue glass is just as ubiquitous today as International style/brutalist skyscrapers were in the 60's and 70's. Hopefully we will break this design trend in the coming decade and bring back some texture into our buildings.

Even 1 WTC is boring flat blue glass and the only interesting thing about it is its shape.
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