The land of America is incredibly beautiful. Most cities are blessed with beautiful geographic location. But the cities themselves, their architecture, streets, parks... were built without taste and flare. I'm talking about big cities. I am only impressed by 3 cities in America in term of cityscape: San Francisco (could be better), New Orleans (poor maintenance however) and New York (not enough green space however).
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Surrounded by this kind of building. They were everywhere.
Link: https://www.sohu.com/a/403244895_312708
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Cities everywhere are romantic and beautiful … if you know how to find it.
Some of my favorites in North America:
New York
Washington DC
Philadelphia
Boston
Toronto
Quebec City
Chicago
Seattle
San Francisco
San Diego
We all better stay at their airport Sheraton. LOL.
Link: https://www.ucityguides.com/cities/10-ugliest-cities-in-the-world.html
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Tell me which architecture and which street in San Diego are so impressive that people won't forget and easy to recognize them after seeing them once? Coronado hotel? Mormon church in La Jolla? 4th, 5th and 6th Ave in Gaslamp?
Old Town is another. The Southwestern Architecture with offset Spanish tiles are amazing and unique to San Diego. Other southwestern states have similar architecture, but San Diego has more “flare” in my opinion.
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I see you forget where San Diego is geographically positioned.
...and you can never forget the Sunday brunch!
Accompanied kid ice skating once just outside hotel.
the Gaslamp District is pretty sweet for an urban setting.
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...Photos don't quite capture its scale.
different looks (e.g. architecture)...and 'Feels'. I grew up in Queens where there was plenty of green space, but my cousin lives in Chelsea (Manhattan) where the look and feel is very different...close knit with enjoyable enclaves that the locals are very comfortable with (also, not far from the clever 'High Line Park' and waterfront). Jim could speak much more to this, but every time I return to the "Big Apple" I get a visceral sense of the city's POWER...five different boroughs...multiple cultural neighborhoods within each...nothing like it in all the cities I've visited in Europe and Asia.
As for San Francisco, the vistas are incredible...from almost anywhere you can get to a spot that will allow you to view the entire Bay Area and the ocean...not as many 'enclaves' as NYC, but the 'Marina' is special...Nob Hill...Pacific Heights...Sea Cliff...Sunset District...Twin Peaks...Richmond...Chinatown...the Presidio........................I could go on about the City by the Bay...but what's also unique is the sense that SF is a hub for the whole 'Bay Area' environment...especially Sausalito, Tiburon, Berkeley and Oakland (the South Bay/Silicon Valley gets to enjoy those looks and feels at a moments notice ;-))
One more 'muse'...when I used to travel from NYC to SF on business, it always amazed me how instead of having my visual senses limited by buildings and trees... in the Bay Area, my vision extended for miles and miles...perhaps that inspires folks living there to think beyond their immediate environ.
Look at what many of them do their bodies. They embrace the profane, the depraved, the repulsive.
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You're essentially shaving points for me. I love it!
I yield, though, since you’re our expert-on-everything.
He does hit again on some truth - for at least some- again.
I think you know this.
You'd think if you were building a building that is intended to last a couple hundred years, you would do it with timeless architecture, not architecture that will be a modern-art embarrassing eyesore when it goes out of style.
Look at this piece of shit. What the fuck?
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I guess they wanted to have something that looked like it belonged on the set of Logan's Run. Again, WTF?
...Hospitals, Clinics and Healthcare complexes. $uburban, mo$tly.
As Mies Van De Rohe once stated, "Form follows function."
Here is the Seagram Building in Manhattan. I ate lunch at the 4 Seasons (1st floor) the summer that it opened. I was 5 years old.
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If you are referring to the ICU project, yes he was in charge of that project.
The link is from 10 years ago. They've been doing this pre-pandemic.
Link: Hospital Design
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I just was teasing that you dont want to be confused with Ty and his amazingly convenient ICU doc relatives ( later changed to friend). Oh, AND the conveniently conjured infectious disease doctor.
I know you and your bro are legit. Sorry I wasnt clear.
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Of course if you'd had your way and we'd just left the Nazi's and Tojo occupy their conquests Europe and Asain would look ugly as hell... uinless you are also a big fan of Albert Speer.
home. Sorry to turn the thread to politics. But you are wrong at Nazi and Japan on this.
Nazi is a very green party. The world's first smoking free office was created by Nazi. Hitler and a few Nazi leaders are vegetarians. They wouldn't build concrete jungle if they conquer Europe. Japanese love being clean. The most beautiful and clean city before 1970s in China, Dalian, was built by Japan during occupation. This is certainly not to defend Nazi and Japan's evil actions of the war they started.
Which leads to wide streets, unwalkable downtowns. And people don't live in the city center.
...pathways, just covered in asphalt or bricks. Funny thing is it can't handle automotive traffic at all.
Boston is a decent city, considering its size. I lived in the Back Bay area (Gloucester & Newbury).