Nice Navy Building (Congress, CNN, Christmas, TV)

[Georgepl]

Didn't the planners look at the drawings before they approved this building on NAB Coronado in San Diego?

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z35/Georgpl/Navymistake.jpg (broken link)

[NewToCA]

I understand they are planning on spending $600,000 on landscaping to change how this 40 year old building looks from a satellite shot.

Seems a little silly to me.

Navy to mask Coronado's swastika-shaped barracks - Los Angeles Times

[doss1]

Haha wow! Did ya'll see the swastika cornfield incident a few days ago?

[TXboomerang]

CNN listed it as a breaking story, but the building has been there for more than 30 years.

[NewToCA]

Originally Posted by tnbound2day

CNN listed it as a breaking story, but the building has been there for more than 30 years.

The gov't could have saved $600,000 by ignoring the story and stating it was nonsense.

But that wouldn't be the gov't.

[Evlevo]

If this was a new building I could understand the outrage, but it was built decades before "google earth".

If at the time of the construction the gov't decided to go with a less functional building design so that they wouldn't risk "offending" the 2 local TV news traffic 'copters, that would have been quite a story too, huh?

[GregW]

Talk about cookie cutter architecture. Design building, make three copies, arrange on plot plan, close eyes, approve. Really clever and probably some congresscritter's piece of pork.

[Greatday]

For goodness sake - it is an OLD building(s)

[Greatday]

Originally Posted by GregW

Talk about cookie cutter architecture.

It is functional

You don't know much about Coronado NAB - do you Greg?

[doss1]

I agree that the swastika is not a good symbol and it should be fixed, but will it be "offensive" if they do a star of david or a christmas tree architecture? oh, where's the ACLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.