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Originally Posted by Cirrus
that railing is such an obviously and lazy attempt to screen rooftop mechanical that it's just insulting.
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That railing doesn't appear to be doing anything; it is hiding a hip roof:
Perhaps it is trying to make an illusion by saying 'at one angle it looks like there's a flat rooftop patio, and at another, you can see the hip roof,' but it's not very convincing.
And I'm sorry, the rest of the building is just as bad. It looks like precast window timmings, sills and lintels (why), precast cornerstones and its all filled together with stucco-ish looking stuff. It looks to me like a premiere example of budget neoclassicsm, and seems like it's been plucked out of Gravesend here in Brooklyn, where all the tasteless Russian mafia elite build their atrocious mansions.
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Ew.