At the risk of looking even more rectal than usual, I'd be willing to bet the farm on the gun-slit windows being the original intelligent design intent, and the gigantic picture windows being some asshole developer's (and thus his toady councilperson's) idea of attractive to apartment rendters/condo buyers.
Meanwhile, there were so many negatives in the original description of what was vetoed, voted down, and overridden that I couldn't tell who's on the good side, and who's on the bad side of this. Except that Bruce is on the bad side.
Ralph
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From: Bruce Marcham <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [BP] Austin, Nichols Warehouse - Egyptoid detailing too small to show up.
The way it looks now reminds me of a prison with the gun-slit windows.
I like the way it looked in the old days with the wider windows (click on Chris' bottom picture and then on the black box to the left of the small picture). Presumably landmark status would allow it to go back to that appearance, not force it to stay the way it is now, but prevent the building of the proposed wedding cake penthouses on top?
Bruce
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Subject: [BP] Austin, Nichols Warehouse - Egyptoid detailing too small to show up.In a message dated 12/8/2005 11:30:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:I got no pix of it, but I'll try to find one. It'scurrent photo, overall:rendering developer's proposal (now, don't be harsh!):best christopher
