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Old Posted Oct 7, 2020, 7:05 AM
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One positive project that will hopefully be the precedent for this is the proposed International House project. I'm also a fan of Brutalism, but there were also a lot of weird anti urban designs of the time. There are certainly ways of fixing this with annexes to the street, proper landscaping, and activation. Since it's already set up as essentially offices, I think it would be a good candidate for reuse as an office building rather than residential.

I also wouldn't be too sad to see it go, but like others have said, the streets here are basically highways, and taking down the walls and opening up the plaza might even be more urban friendly than bringing the building to the street in this case. A road diet would be great here