Just a positive comment about all the commenters -back seat
architects? I think it is good to get it all hashed out about a major
building like that.
At the University they had a Coffman Student Union. In the 1970s
they spent some $25 million in a major rebuilding and improved it some but
then in recent years they are spending 39 million to rebuild it again,
saying it just didn't feel right.
Major buildings like that should last for centuries. Like the
remodeled City Hall and the Government Center- both of those should still be
just great buildings a century and more from now.
Of course technology will continue to bring changes in bldg
requirements. Some otherwise good structures, -like the domed Stadium- can
become totally outmoded for commercial and technological reasons.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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