Posted Oct 16, 2006, 4:40 AM
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I, too, vote we keep this thread for the sake of clarity.
I'm not sure the city got a bad deal on this hotel. This is Phoenix, and the very idea of a city-owned hotel is fairly radical. City fathers may have hedged their bets by low-balling the cost, and the end product reflects that calculation.
One of my favorite ugly hotels is the downtown Hyatt in Chicago. It looks like a public housing project on steroids. How did the owners, who endow architecture's premier award, The Pritzker Prize, allow this to happen?
At any rate, I don't think our hotel will be ugly, just bland. While it's another missed opportunity, there'll be plenty more to miss as the years roll by.
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