Old Buildings
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@Jolly said in Old Buildings:
Speaking of empty buildings, what do you do with this?
Hotel, business center. Just like Chicago did with the old Cook County Hospital.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Old Buildings:
@Jolly said in Old Buildings:
Speaking of empty buildings, what do you do with this?
Hotel, business center. Just like Chicago did with the old Cook County Hospital.
Would certainly like to see it. I do believe I would move the physical plant out of the basement, though.
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One of Chicago's iconic places was the old post office building which straddled the eastern end of I290. You'd drive under the post office, cross the river, and be in the south loop.
It had been an eyesore for years, with busted windows, and crumbling exterior.
Then...it was redone:
https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/9/18/16327244/old-post-office-renderings
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Speaking of physical plants...The old hospital I kicked off this thread with, had a physical plant down the hill from the hospital. All that stuff was routed to the main building by a pretty decent-sized tunnel. In inclement weather, the maintenance guys would walk to the hospital through the tunnel, rather than walking in the rain.
Lot of people didn't know it, but the basement and tunnel were rated as fallout shelters, with Geiger counters, etc...
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@Jolly said in Old Buildings:
Would certainly like to see it. I do believe I would move the physical plant out of the basement, though.
Why, to prevent another "Five Days at Memorial" scenario?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Old Buildings:
@Jolly said in Old Buildings:
Would certainly like to see it. I do believe I would move the physical plant out of the basement, though.
Why, to prevent another "Five Days at Memorial" scenario?
Amen.
University Hospital has its plant on the third floor, IIRC. It takes a while, but we can be taught...
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There is a lot of movement in higher ed architecture toward renovation as the correct response to sustainability and carbon reduction, as well as just better built, more durable, and more beautiful, human scaled architecture.
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Train stations seem to have some pretty cool (or at least interesting) architecture. Always like going through them.
Pyongyang, DRPK (sorry for the darkness of the picture)
Los Angeles
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30th Street Station in Philadelphia is not grand, but us very elegant.
