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I disagree. They all seem to have the same kinder of glass color/texture thing going, which relates them to each other and defines the group. Plus the distinctive designs for each building make them seem like they have individual personalities. Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Separate, complementary personalities, but they're all green. Too much uniformity = bad. Uniformity in some elements and diversity in others = good.

Originally posted by: Creathir A website about buildings and cities... and one of the most famous buildings in the midwest cannot even be mentioned... sillyness...John Hanc-ck Center in Chicago - Creathirquote> Keep it clean, say Hanpeepee Center.

Urbanism is all fine and dandy, but I've got some beefs with the list. 1. You don't need a "center" to have an aesthetic sense of place, and just because there's a physically identifiable center to a community doesn't necessarily mean anything positive. Functionally speaking, a center is not essential for transit either. 3. I'm not convinced that diversity of housing styles is necessary for an economically diverse community. In fact, while it may help get the rich and the poor side by side, it may keep them segregated in terms of community. Similar housing types may render economic status less visible, and keep it from hindering a sense of community. 5. Communities are organisms that must be allowed to grow themselves. The implication that restriction is the rule and that only certain things should be "permitted" in a list of fundamentals suggests a short-sighted theory with limited applications. Why must there be a garage-like shed specifically in the back of a house? It's ridiculous. 9. Another item that might be suited for some applications, but certainly not all, or even most. 11. This is just car hate. I like to work on my car in front of my house and say hi to my neighbor (edit - this is in my fantasy where I have a house and a car that I work on). Driving a car shouldn't be like going to the bathroom. My biggest beef with designing living spaces these days is a lack of honesty. The new 5-story condos accross the street from my apartment would have you think that they are some kind of urban, rising straight up right near the street, the design would play down the fact that there's a big old parking lot in the middle of the block, and in the first story of the building itself. All sorts of facadical features that probably looked really nifty and sophisticated in AutoCAD vie for your attention so you don't notice that you're just looking at a big piece of concrete dressed up to look like a yuppie dollhouse. Give me brutalism to that any day. /end rant

Thank goodness they decided on something decent. Things weren't looking good for a while there.

Here's a turbine interchange: Here's a take-off on the idea: Then I decided that looked too much like a swastika, so I tried a couple other ones before settling on a regular NAM stack. (not pictured) Here's a nifty take-off on an Echelon interchange: and from a different angle- Hopefully I didn't mess everything up and make a post full of red X's

I get to drive through that almost every day, along with this gem of a fully directional interchange

If state capitals count, Saint Paul, MN totally wins hands down. Disclaimer: I live there.