How soon can we blow up old city hall?

[OurTulsa]

quote:Originally posted by Aa5drvr

>>We need to first get the workers out, of course.

What are you going to do with the other 90% of the employees?

(Let the flames begin.)

OK, that was funny!

[PonderInc]

I'd pay $10 for a chance to blow it up, but I'd want to drop a watermelon from the roof onto the World's Ugliest Plaza first...

While some believe the current City Hall is a lovely example of mid-century modern architecture, I believe that the City Hall building was to architecture what the "beehive" was to hair: A bad idea, even in its own time...

[inteller]

I want Heidi Fleiss to buy it and turn it into a "laundrymat"

[Double A]

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc

I'd pay $10 for a chance to blow it up, but I'd want to drop a watermelon from the roof onto the World's Ugliest Plaza first...

While some believe the current City Hall is a lovely example of mid-century modern architecture, I believe that the City Hall building was to architecture what the "beehive" was to hair: A bad idea, even in its own time...

I dunno, some might argue that Amy Winehouse has brought the sexy back to the beehive. That's the thing about image, it's not just the image you present to the public, but manipulating the way the public perceives it. Who is to say that with the right imaging we couldn't have brought the sexy back to a building and plaza from another era. Don't be such a naysayer, you lack vision.

[swake]

quote:Originally posted by Double A

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc

I'd pay $10 for a chance to blow it up, but I'd want to drop a watermelon from the roof onto the World's Ugliest Plaza first...

While some believe the current City Hall is a lovely example of mid-century modern architecture, I believe that the City Hall building was to architecture what the "beehive" was to hair: A bad idea, even in its own time...

I dunno, some might argue that Amy Winehouse has brought the sexy back to the beehive. That's the thing about image, it's not just the image you present to the public, but manipulating the way the public perceives it. Who is to say that with the right imaging we couldn't have brought the sexy back to a building and plaza from another era. Don't be such a naysayer, you lack vision.

Amy Winehouse is just as a good looking as the old city hall

[PonderInc]

I'm not a naysayer.  I say YES to blowing up city hall ASAP!  

As for vision, my vision would be to see one of the ugliest dead spots in downtown (not counting all surface parking lots, of course), transformed into something useful, vital, and architecturally interesting.  For once, I agree with the concept that tearing down something "old" and building something new will be the "highest, best use" of the land.

When was the last time anyone "hung out" at the City Hall Plaza except during Mayfest or when a car was being dug up nearby?  Once in a blue moon, a few people "protest" there.  Anybody else who's not homeless spent any quality time in that "oasis?"  Reading, meeting friends for coffee, listening to street performers?  Relaxing and enjoying the view...admiring the "fountains?"  Yeah, right!

Just because something is old doesn't mean it should be saved.  Old things that are beautiful and irreplaceable, old structures built by artisans and craftsmen that could never be reproduced today...those I want to save.  The current City Hall?  We could build a newer, better copy of it today if we wanted to...but why would we?