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kickstand t1_jbrka4z wrote

Reply to comment by SaltyNewEnglandCop in Fane Tower project in Providence is dead by Ph886

Construction jobs are temporary, but the eyesore that gets constructed lasts for decades.

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SaltyNewEnglandCop t1_jbrkvaa wrote

Oh I’m sorry, what’s the bottom limit for the number of people employed for 3-5 years with good salaries where you’d put your taste aside? All construction jobs are temporary, and the only thing that keeps construction workers employed is more construction. So this would have been a massive boost for all those people that Reddit appears to care for.

It would have been such a boost that every union was behind this project.

And your idea of an eye sore is your opinion, I would have liked to have seen this built since it would spur more to be built. This building is a leap and a jump ahead of the art deco of the Superman Building or the International design of One Financial.

And everything is better than the Brown University Brutalist library’s on Waterman.

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werewolfmanjack t1_jbropeb wrote

There are things in this life that I bet you are an expert on, and I respect that. I’d side with you on whatever they are, but with architectural critiques, no - the distasteful mediocrity of the former fane tower was part of its doom. Imagine if the design had inspired? It would be getting built. It failed. This isn’t Dubai, we don’t go for that kind of soulless shit.

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SaltyNewEnglandCop t1_jbt28wj wrote

Yet the Omni tower has soul? Or the Fidelity building?

What about the power plant and every other 1+5 cookie cutter design?

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meme-scraperr t1_jbthse0 wrote

I agree with you man. What a shame. Just a shame it won’t be built.

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