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So hope that SF can make this happen…

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/amp/Completing-Phase-2-of-Transbay-Transit-Center-14882632.php

Optimist Hall in Charlotte. Layout is terrible. Narrow, kind of dark. Not enough indoor seating.

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The new Raiders stadium in Vegas is quite something. I’m told the field is actually 100’ below ground level. This is going to be a gorgeous stadium when done.

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Lol why’d you post this if you don’t like it :man_shrugging:t4: And we have two food halls already, each better than that one.

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Where are the other ones? Outdoor area of optimist was done well, I just though the indoor area was not thought out. More communal areas not do much benches and small eating areas in coves.

At a wedding reception in Long Beach. This place looks familiar.

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I wonder how many of these identical buildings exist?

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When my mother moved from Cary to California in the ‘70s, they lived in that hotel for 6 weeks. She said it was a reminder of home.

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There’s also the Charleston one. I’m assuming any Holiday Inn built in the late 60s, early ‘70s that is still around looks similarly. Feels like a Mad Men episode where the tag line dictated building design, “It’s the round one!”.

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Syracuse has a similar round one. At some point it switched from a Holiday Inn to a Crowne Plaza.

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The Skyhouse of the 60’s/70’s.

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There is also one in the New Orleans metro…it isn’t in NOLA itself, but one of the surrounding cities, can’t remember which one.

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Maybe in Metarie? That would make the most sense to me.

Found this @OakCityDylan…(look at the top)

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That’s from the Google Street View app. I did one from the other side of the building that’s gotten 160k views. Not sure how these links will work:

East side of SkyHouse at sunrise.

And the one you posted, from the west side:

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I love Long Beach. One of the most dense, walkable, and interesting cities in SoCal.

There’s one in Los Angeles!

Hotel Angeleno. How could I forget, it’s by the 405 below the iconic Getty Museum.

San Diego

Jefferson City, MO

Austin, TX

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Destin, Fl (Demolished)

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Yes, even in Mexico

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The late architect has a website: Leonard J Lundgren Mid Century Modern Architect Austin Texas. Overview his modern residential and commercial designs

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Charleston, SC

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These buildings always remind me of my sister’s hair curlers from the 70’s.

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