622 North 2nd Street
Holy shit look at that crazy motherfucker!! This nutty-looking building was going to be a revolutionary killer-structure that would bring Philadelphia architecture into the 28th Century. Unfortunately, the building's own crappy developer was its downfall.
Read more at the Philadelphia Citypaper's Naked City blog!!
Wow, that is an atrocity. Even if it was a piece of networking equipment (like a router or cable modem), it would look bad.
ReplyDeleteI think it could look good, perhaps, but I'd have some concerns. Mainly: what's going on at ground level? That's where most people will see it from, after all. A long narrow staircase going up into the building is not very inviting. The empty space surrounding it seems like it would be filled with landscaping in the best case and a parking lot in the worst-- neither of which is conducive to human activity. In other words, a fortress in the sky.
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