Beauty and the Beast (a visual) *Quik-E-List*
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Man, what is that Soviet-looking monstrosity?^^^
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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Boston City Hall:
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
It does look like Cold War-era Soviet construction.Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Man, what is that Soviet-looking monstrosity?
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
One more watch comparo. I really hate these Invictas:
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
^^^ They misspelled tacky-meter.
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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This is the only one I'm not sure of. I like 'em both.
Car guys will recognize the car on the right as a recreation based on Eighties GM architecture. The car on the left, on the other hand, is the Mercedes-Benz 300SL, one of the most beloved vehicles ever built. Not only is it generally regarded as beautiful, it is also--for the day--a technical marvel.
Of course, driven slowly with the top down on a hot, sunny day, either will suffice.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
The Palace of Westminster.
Dallas City Hall.
What bridges are those?
Even the name is ugly: The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Olive, you missed the obvious comparison here:
Tribune Tower:
Sun-Times Building:
The latter one is gone, though...they mercifully tore it down and Donald Trump built a surprisingly attractive building on the site.
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The University of Illinois Chicago campus looks like this...the whole campus. It's hideous, but in the 70s it was considered cutting edge, to just make everything concrete. Ugh.Boston City Hall:
Mudd Learning Center (the main campus library) at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio has a similar vibe:
Now this is a library:
Last edited by Elendil's Heir; 03 Feb 2012 at 09:37 PM.
Aye, that is the library of libraries in the US at least.
Here is a fair competitor though, named after Dr. Seuss in fact. Well the Geisel Library that is.
On the left you have beast, on the right beauty. Dublin's Liberty Hall and Custom House.
Not only is the Sun-Times building gone, the paper is pretty much gone, too.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Bridges posted upthread by me:
First one is the Tyne Bridge (in Newcastle).
The other ones I'm not sure of the name, they are in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Originally I was going to put in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, which is another croquet wicket from the same designer (Santiago Calatrava), but then I saw those which are three times as fun.
That looks like a house fell on a church that was in the process of being converted into an apartment building.
I think Fresno's old and new city courthouse works well here.
was demolished in 1966 and replaced with
Yep.
That is a weird, lattice-like covering that completely wraps around the building, fyi.
Fallingwater, by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Cabrini-Green, by Pace Associates.
^^^ Cabrini Green, as seen in every single documentary about the formative years of rap music, and on at least one album cover I can think of. I imagine it was hideous even when new, and it's a one-jpeg explanation of how the word ghetto made the transition from noun to verb.
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Cabrini Green featured in this comic in the 1980s set around the millennium. It was this horrible dystopia made up I assumed for the comic. Then in 2004 I was in Chicago and saw it and a man dead on the street beside it.^^^ Cabrini Green, as seen in every single documentary about the formative years of rap music, and on at least one album cover I can think of. I imagine it was hideous even when new, and it's a one-jpeg explanation of how the word ghetto made the transition from noun to verb.
The last of the complex was torn down just last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini...d_future_plans
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Ingrid Bergman.
Jocelyn Wildenstein.
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"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
^^^ bottom photo there is dead, Oliveloaf.
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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seems to be working fine for me?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
No, I don't see anything there either.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Okay, one more watch. The face of the top watch is a recreation of the dash clock from a late Fifties Mercedes-Benz.
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
(But, both are cute.)
"I won't kill for money, and I won't marry for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."
-Jim Rockford
Ah, but one is definitely a beast.
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In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
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