I like the composition of the photograph.

Question: Where are all the people at? Is that the question?

No, but I don't know where all the people are. Kind of strange.

Replacement windows, man. Every building these parts has them, don't ask me why. They say they're energy efficient, but they seem to get by without them in much colder parts of the country. The metal ones from the sixties may be rusty and tough to open, but they still look better than the glaring white plastic ones with the tacky fake glazing bars that everyone's putting in these days. The original windows on this particular building probably weren't nothing special, but at least they looked like they belonged.

You spotted one modern building, but what you see in the upper right corner is part of Smith Tower, just it was added later and not visible from street level so they didn't bother decorating it to match the rest of the building.

And that is the question I wanted someone to ask, the answer is: I climbed the stairs. Seattle's historic districts are peppered with concrete parking garages from the sixties with exhorbant hourly rates. They're a remnant from the city's original plan for Pioneer Square, home of Seattle's first real buildings: Level it, use the land to provide parking for Seattle's new urban center which we'll build after we build all these parking garages. That's how we were thinking in the fifties and sixties, we really wanted as little to do with our past as possible. The garages are ugly, monolithic, and useless, but I can climb to the top of them and get some great shots.

L.A. did obliterate it's past. It is one of the oldest cities in the west but almost nothing of its history survives. Most people living in L.A. don't know that there is a river running through it. Sadly every one has seen it all that remains of L.A.'s river is the canal used in T2 for the chase seen with Arnold on the motorcycle and the new supper robot in the truck.

Cool. Is that where your big guy with the vest lives?

I think you should definitely post them if they are all good like this. Great composition!

Where'd you take the picture from?

Top of a parking structure.

My two guess are the parking garage and the building you're on (the one you can only see the ledge of in the lower left corner. I figured that you knew to not stand on a building that you wanted to take a picture of.

And please post pictures that you find interesting. I haven't found much of any interesting scenery here in Orlando. The most interesting building here is Wonderworks and that's a just a fiberglass facade to make it look upside down. The next one is the Ripley's Museum building (my work) that looks like it's singking. But those are just for flippen tourists and not works of class.

Ding!

Unfortunately, Orlando's mostly a new town. According to Wikipedia, though, it does have a historic district.

Alright! I win! I've only lived in Orlando for just about a year now. I just REALLY had to move out my parents' place. I had some friends that needed a roommate so I hopped aboard and although I think it was a really good decision I'm becoming less and less attarcted to it. The atmosphere is just so FLASE! I have yet to have heard of this historic section, though. Perhhaps it's better there. I do plan on moving out from these guys when my debt is cleared up.

I just checked it out online and it doesn't look impressive at all. I saw one house I kinda liked but that was negated by the neighbors I could have. Not my cup of tea at least.

Yeah, I was probably looking at the same pictures. Even the old houses contrive to looks sort of fake and plastic, (probably not a whole lot left of the original buildings.)

I admit to having a limited knowledge of achitechure but almost all of them look like they were built in the fifties and sixies. The church was built in 1929 and it looked more like a standard public building, quite sterile with ionic pillars.

PS I can count three people.

the parking garage you are standing on and the one in the background that is shaped like the hull of a ship. however they really don't classify as buildings but things of necessity if you are going to have a popular place like pioneer square. I for one think the city needs more of them since seattle is now the hip trendy spot for everyone to live.

and the question is did you get shot or stabbed or see someone get shot or stabbed wile you were in pioneer square?

You'd think so, but the goddamn things are never more than a quarter full. No one uses them. Of course, if we're going to build more they should go on the sites of the pay-parking lots, and should be built in a style that matches the rest of the neighborhood, and . . . actually I'm not going to trust that any architect here here is actually going to be able to pull that off while still sucking Koolhaus's cock. If you want more I design them.

People who have never been to Pioneer Square but have read about Pioneer Square think it's dangerous. I go there all the time, even at night, and the only thing I risk is seeing a tramp wet himself. Fact o' the matter is Seattle averages twenty murders per year, we just don't have a bad neighborhood. Oh I remember, I remember I was hanging out with my brother's girlfriend at the hotel at which she works, and a man comes down from his room and spreads a map of Seattle out of the counter, and says to us, "Alright, which one of these is the bad neighborhood? Where is the place I should avoid?" And she says, "Um, I suppose you might do well to avoid The International District after midnight, maybe Pine Street, where are you from?" And he says, "Miami." And she laughs and says, "Don't you worry. This is going to be a cake walk for you. Go where ever you want."

Ok ok the shit doesn't happen in pioneer square, it happens a block in ether direction of pioneer square. There sound better. And I'm for one am not from Miami but Kent and then after that Portland so Seattle seems like a shit hole that is full of LA trash to me. In fact I think you are the only person, other than the ones I went to school with, that I have talked to that is actually from Seattle.

but anyway just as a side note, doesn't that building reminded you of the Crimson Permanent Assurance from Monty Pythons Meaning of Life?

If you've ever known anyone from Miami, they'll tell you that city has some bad neighborhoods. A denizen would have no problems in Seattle. That was the point of the story.

And listen, I spent four years in Manhattan, and the previous four years I was there every weekend. I spent a year and a half Santa Fe, Seattle's crime is nothing. There isn't any. I am so tired of people whining about Pioneer Square and The Pike/Pine Corridor and The International district and how goddamn dangerous they are. When Seattle gets its first drive-by shooting I'll be concerned. There was one every month on my street in Santa Fe.

And why, did you call my city a shit hole?

Whoa calm down there, I grew up in these parts and I will call it whatever I want. If you don’t like my opinion oh well but I am not going to apologize and I am not going to take it back. Now I haven’t lived in this area for the last 8 years, in fact the last time I was in the city is when the King Dome was on King Street and that area was a cesspool of filth. So if things have changed then I haven’t seen it yet but to have a friend get the shit kicked out of him and another get mugged at gun point and another get ganged up by 3 guys and literally had to run for his life all right outside pioneer square might just draw a hateful opinion about that place and the city in general. I know it’s not as bad as Manhattan but to say we only have one shooting a day when Manhattan has 10 is really not something to brag about.

But once again looks like a smart ass comment that was intended to be a joke just open up another can of drama on the FA board once again.

Listen, stop commenting on my stuff, would you? I don't like you. Everything you say is a little bit non-sequitur, a little bit threatening, a little bit T.M.I., and a little bit insulting, and your posts are ususally one run-on sentence. And I like Seattle. Blow me. I'm going to block you if you leave another comment.

its not like you a good artist anyway. go ahead and block me ass hole. then go fuck yourself after that.

Done and done. And I prefer the term, "pornographer."

Whats the buildings function?

And you should definatly post some of your architecture pics here. Its obviously a passion of yours, and I personally think they are pritty good.

Low-income hip apartments now, I'd live there myself but there's a waiting list. It was an office building at one point.

Neat!!