Gotta love Post-Modernism, huh? Why, the new courthouse looks just as good as the old one! OK, I’m being sarcastic. I wonder how long this new one will last? By the way, for all of us sentimental types, they saved the cupola from the old building. Last I heard it was for sale.
02/15/2013, 08:18 am
UGH! The fenestratinon, it buuuurrrnsss! Good god, where does one even start? The sphincter-sized windows (as they relate to the rest of the facade)? The “quoins”? The over-sized, all-out-of-proportion, OOOOH, look it’s a courthouse columns? (Bet they aren’t even real limestone). The superfluous and wholly anachronistic widow’s walk? The flag pole practically shoved up the facade wazoo? (Seriously, who puts a flag-pole this close to a public building? Put it off to the side; and maybe get a taller one, saaaay…taller than the building!)
Maybe it’s energy efficient, and has a tight envelope, like a Passivhaus, with swales to collect the run-off from the parking lot…
Who am I kidding?!
02/15/2013, 10:07 am
“Sphincter-sized windows” That’s pure gold!
02/16/2013, 10:13 am
Glad you enjoyed it. You have my permission to use it freely.
02/15/2013, 05:32 pm
What the what?! I realize that Illinois is broke due to their ineptitude but if they needed to save money this BADLY why not just go nuclear and build a box with red iron and tin and call it a day. That would save big $$$ and they wouldn’t look as if they tried and failed so miserably.
02/16/2013, 10:09 am
Kahoka, MO. But still, this thing is a collection of parts, erected atop a foundation. Like the comment about what is essentially the defacto method of cheap construction for farms, small businesses and storage in rural areas (and some urban/suburban).
02/16/2013, 08:10 pm
I think you bring up a good point; rural areas never had any problem building quality buildings in the past, but everything new I see in the country is junk. What happened?