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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I prefer facadomizing to razing, but would prefer even more that the building remain pristine. Facadomizing gets pretty Disney/new Times Square pretty fast.[/quote]

2000 Pennsylvania Ave, "Red Lion Row," is an example of how facadomy is not historic preservation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Pennsylvania_Avenue#/media/File:2000Penn.jpg[/quote]

From today's Post. I think this architects thoughts very much apply to the GGW 'stance', the Uptown and facadomizing:

"Although Mr. Böhm was part of a group of architects who helped rebuild Cologne after World War II, [b]he came to believe that as much damage was inflicted by the postwar construction boom as by the war itself[/b]. New highways were carved through the city and old buildings were torn down, replaced by structures that were [b]sometimes nice to look at but, in his view, did little to promote a sense of community.[/b]

“I think the future of architects doesn’t lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns,” he declared in the catalogue of a 1986 exhibit of his sketches. In his Pritzker acceptance speech, he quoted advice his wife had given their children: “[b]Our generation has built a lot, but your generation will have to work hard to heal all that[/b].”[/quote]

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