Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5438 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 65.92.101.104
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 8:21 am: | |
Sticking with the mid-century theme - P.D.J. |
623kraw
Member Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 879 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 8:39 am: | |
Nice shots - '50's buildings were solid as a rock, but the architecture was somehow too much like the Jetson's era...? |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 3890 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.229
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 9:23 am: | |
Another Winsdor pre-Yamasaki look-a-like. |
Unclefrank Member Username: Unclefrank
Post Number: 29 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 192.85.50.1
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 9:52 am: | |
I find 50's architecture really boring. Thanx for the photos though. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 428 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 1:28 pm: | |
Gotta agree...that building is a yawner. But the main entrance is attractive. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 76 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 1:29 pm: | |
As a Wayne State student I'm surrounded by 50-60's architechture and it makes me sick. Boring as hell but built tough! |
Unclefrank Member Username: Unclefrank
Post Number: 30 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 192.85.50.2
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 1:33 pm: | |
Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn't alot of 50's and 60's architecture take into account the possibility of Civil Defense use? |
Eastsidedog Member Username: Eastsidedog
Post Number: 141 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 69.220.142.7
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 1:41 pm: | |
I really don't like the windowless 50's stuff. I find it depressing. The steel and glass Mies Van Der Rohe stuff ala Lafayette Park is fantastic though. Very slick and minimal. The contrast with the lush mature landscaping makes it gorgeous year round. Take a stroll through the townhouses some time. It was all built from '53 to 63'. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 3527 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 3:09 pm: | |
Thanks for the Mid-centrury modernist bldg. Andrew. Like them or not, they are now getting recognition by the National Trust as historical properties. Anything over 50 years old is historic. And that includes The Rock and Ray1936. jjaba, Old Timey Westsider. |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 429 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 4:01 pm: | |
Hmmmpff. Jjaba calls the kettle black. With apologies to Rasputin. |
Jjw Member Username: Jjw
Post Number: 70 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 68.33.56.156
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 7:00 pm: | |
that is one ugly building |
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm
Post Number: 516 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 10:39 pm: | |
That is one plain building. Not really ugly, but, well, plain. The Welcome Center had some character, this doesn't. |
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 3475 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.172.95.197
| Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 11:00 pm: | |
I agree, Douglasm. Though, I would at that the thing is painfully plain. |