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Old 03-01-2011, 11:38 PM
 
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Hate to burst your bubble BlackBeauty, but BofA can't expand here through acquisition of another bank because it is well above the 10% federal cap on deposits. Not that it hasn't "bent" the rules before (see Merrill Lynch). For now you'll have to keep using the Ross Park/Loew's BofA ATMs when banking in the Burgh.
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Old 03-02-2011, 05:35 AM
 
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Well if PNC beats BofA by expanding in NYC vs BofA in the Burgh i will switch to PNC...

Now back to our regularly scheduled program
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Old 03-02-2011, 08:03 AM
 
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Moderator cut: copyrighted photo removed
I read the terms of use at that site, and they said we could link their pictures as long as they were marked with the website address (as this one was).

Oh well. Here is the link:

Gulf & Koppers Buildings - Pittsburgh Pictures
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Old 03-02-2011, 08:05 AM
 
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I don't like Aqua Tower. It looks like it has blisters or varicose veins.
Yeah, but you don't like anything built after January 22, 1901.

More seriously, almost anything some people find really cool and interesting other people are going to find odd and ugly. Which is fine! I'd like this to be a somewhat "controversial" project in that sense.
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Old 03-02-2011, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Yeah, but you don't like anything built after January 22, 1901.
ZING!! Brian knows how to pull the punches!
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Old 03-02-2011, 01:28 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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Yeah, but you don't like anything built after January 22, 1901.
Nobody likes modern architecture more than I, Brian, and even my first thought on seeing that Aqua Tower photo was "skin condition."

Here's another picture of it, one that doesn't look as diseased: http://www.studiogang.net/projects_e1.htm (broken link)
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Old 03-02-2011, 01:44 PM
 
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Nobody likes modern architecture more than I, Brian, and even my first thought on seeing that Aqua Tower photo was "skin condition."
I hope people recognized that was a very inside joke.

Ultimately aesthetics is not really subject to much debate. Aqua Tower very much has an organic look to it, by design. Some people, like me, like that aspect, other people find it creepy--which is part of why I like it! So I am honestly not trying to talk people into liking it if their personal reaction is negative.
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Old 03-02-2011, 03:36 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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In person, the Aqua Tower is pure sex.
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Old 03-02-2011, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Kittanning
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Key Tower in Cleveland is more my speed. BrianTH is right, though. I don't really like much built after, say, 1945, and the older the better...
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Old 03-03-2011, 08:00 AM
 
Location: Philly
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Key Tower in Cleveland is more my speed. BrianTH is right, though. I don't really like much built after, say, 1945, and the older the better...
simple good taste. modernism is aggressively antiurban and antipeople...from the age of ultimate planning arrogance. thankfully context hss returned to architecture.
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