Posts Tagged ‘1970′s Architecture’

Fresh and Green

In an earlier post, I wrote about the ongoing renovation of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal building, a bland 1970′s-looking hulk being completely retrofitted under the stimulus bill.  Currently, it’s one of three cranes left in a skyline that had more than a dozen just a few years ago, one stands idly over a project [...]

Those Swingin’ Seventies

In an earlier post, WT and I were talking about crappy skyscrapers, and mutually decided that some of them were cool. (RIP World Trade Center…) This one, shown from CHNN Headquarters, and then from the street, is Charles Luckman’s building, formerly the  First National Bank Tower, which although derided at the time and since by [...]