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9 hours ago, donNdonelson2 said:

Salt Lake City's new (2014) federal courthouse. I would say it is in the "Nouveau Brutalist" style. They, too, had to wait twenty years for funding.

Salt Lake City's new (2014) federal courthouse.jpg

I'd say that it's not a bad concept, since those "textured" walls are actually grids of glass-and-aluminum windowing, conferring that "Trans-Lux" appearance suggestive of the upper portion of Nashville's Pinnacle Tower.  This design also harvests a vast amount of natural daylight   In some respects, it beats the designs of most Nashville generic boxes ─ just one man's opinion.  This structure may be generic in outline, but it's built with much more than what meets the eye at a glance.

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Well....this must be the first of many 'demolition' nights. They managed to 'chew' just 1/2 half of the exterior wall shown in the picture. Nothing like shutting down 8th North (Rosa Parks) and Church Street over multiple nights instead of just 1 day...

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On 12/10/2016 at 0:29 AM, fieldmarshaldj said:

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Ugh. I see it, and it appears the design was inspired by Judge Dredd, the dystopian movie Stallone was in back in '95.

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This is an extremely frustration demo to live and work near. The incessant eating away of the building....sometimes lasting until 2AM is bad enough....but they also close Church street and 8th North in our block without notice. The snail's pace of this demo explains the 5-year construction timeline of the Courthouse..... government!

Was this demo planned by the same group that decided to move the NYE celebration to the Bicentennial Mall location....? We may never know.

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