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Y'all know about Louis Sullivan right? He (according to some) invented the skyscraper, and also gave architects the maxim "form follows function," which many of them took to mean buildings should not have any ornamentation at all. However as you can tell by looking at his work he probably would not agree. The Wainwright Building - St. Louis, MO - 1891    Anyway later in life he got less work and from 1908 to 1919 a lot of his output consisted of small banks in small agricultural towns in the American Midwest. They're incredible! National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna - Owatonna, MN - 1908     Merchants' National Bank - Grinnell, IA - 1914     Tomorrow I'll post about some civic architecture I like in Texas, because one time I told an architect friend of mine that I liked a post office near my house and he told me it's "not architecture, it's just a building" and that really pissed me off.
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Texas has 254 counties, and each one has a county courthouse as its central government building - think of it as the county's city hall. It's called a courthouse because the governing body of the county is called the commissioners' court, and the elected head of the court is the county judge. No it doesn't make sense. My grandpa told me that for a while he had a hobby of trying to go to every county courthouse in Texas to take a picture of it, but he realized about a third of the way in he hadn't written the county on the backs of any of the pictures he had taken. Sadly this was pre-internet, so he just gave up and bought a book instead. I'm gonna post a few of my faves as well as a map of where the county is within the state. A majority of county courthouses (or at least close to it) are WPA-era Art Deco-ish or 50s/60s era Modern. Most of the rest are bad beaux-arts. Bexar (in Spanish, BEH-har; in English, BAY-er, like the company) County - County seat: San Antonio - pop: 2,009,324 (pos. growth compared to 2010)   Calhoun County - County seat: Port Lavaca - pop: 20,106 (neg. growth compared to 2010)   Jefferson County - County seat: Beaumont - pop: 256,526 (pos. growth compared to 2010)   Matagorda County - County seat: Bay City - pop: 36,255 (neg. growth compared to 2010)   Nueces County - County seat: Corpus Christi - pop: 353,178 (pos. growth compared to 2010)   Travis County - County seat: Austin (also state capital) - pop: 1,290,188 (pos. growth compared to 2010)  
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DemonDarkhorse posted:milwaukee's domes were already mentioned, so i thought i'd bring up one of the other things we're famous for: When I went to this museum and found out this whole thing is basically the lobby and the actual museum is down a long hallway in another building I felt so cheated
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https://twitter.com/JoshLipnik/status/1443970000876933123?s=20
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Milo and POTUS posted:
https://twitter.com/TehranYimby/status/1473808465726480384?s=20 Seems like they build a lot of cool stuff in Tehran
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BigFactory posted:What would it be used for? Coal silos can’t really be repurposed for anything. It would just sit there collecting dead birds. Well you see, change is bad
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Fellblade posted:What kind of venue anywhere in the world has enough car parking space for capacity? There are a few new, horrible buildings in downtown Austin that have 15 floors of building on top of 16 floors of parking, so they might
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https://twitter.com/TehranYimby/status/1514774725544734726 all the buildings this account posts are incredible
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