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Originally Posted by GThomas
Lost my view but was fun watching this one grow. Finally starting to add brick.
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Yes, and it looks good! What I've seen so far on the SE side of the building is very well done. The full mass of this building is tremendous.
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I was living in Minneapolis when the Luthern Brotherhood building was built downtown with that pink glass, and it was my understanding, eventually, a duplicate of that building was going to be built in back of it, and, obviously, that is not going to happen now. It's sure taken a long time to develop that lot. The Federal Reserve Bank was another that was "half built", plans were to double the size of that building, creating a full inner circle, but that didn't happen either. I used to roller skate on that plaza and was in awe of that building.
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I've heard that before-- that the original plan was to have a twin so that the buildings together appeared like "praying hands" when viewed in profile. Kind of bizarre. Which Fed building are you referring to? I hadn't heard that before. Another building originally planned to have a twin that never came to be was the SPS Tower, which you might know as Lincoln Center. Personally, I like the green space there and think it might be better that the 2nd one never got built. The half that did get built has such an uninspiring and inactive presence on 4th Ave, glad we don't have a mirror of it on 3rd Ave!