My Favorite Facadectomy
From Bucharest, Romania: Let this be the facadectomy to end all facadectomies.
posted by Inga Saffron at 9:14 AM
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
From Bucharest, Romania: Let this be the facadectomy to end all facadectomies.
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they must have hired quite a facadologist for that one
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Legoland springs to mind.....
For that matter, the Penn Mutual tower's facadectamy, behind Independence Mall, is just as powerfull and the modern tower is better imo.
thats so awesome
Why? Oh God, why?
How about the hatchet job done by architect-owner Sherman Leis (?) on his building on Walnut Street between 19th and 20th, formerly the Empyrean coffee house.
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