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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #50 on: November 10, 2018, 04:58:37 AM »
I believe this used to be an AT&T facility in Westminster Co.  Gigantimous antenna kind of broke up the outline.  AFAIK, it was not steerable.



I always wondered what satellite might be ~30° up from 40-ish° latitude and ~105° longitude, with the antenna pointing pretty much due true north, but never bothered to check.

Maybe it's just pointed at ITF* 894.

REF (Just details on the sale of the building, nothing really technical):
https://www.griffincapital.com/griffin-capital-essential-asset-reit/news-and-filings/2014-press-releases/digitalglobe-acquisition

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #51 on: November 10, 2018, 10:12:17 AM »
I believe this used to be an AT&T facility in Westminster Co.  Gigantimous antenna kind of broke up the outline.  AFAIK, it was not steerable.




Interesting, but with an all-glass curtain wall not Brutalism, by definition. I think many of you are confusing the purely ugly with what  the Brutalist style really is.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #52 on: November 10, 2018, 11:05:51 AM »
Well, you're right.  But any time buildings come up I think of that place.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #53 on: November 10, 2018, 08:14:56 PM »
I believe this used to be an AT&T facility in Westminster Co.  Gigantimous antenna kind of broke up the outline.  AFAIK, it was not steerable.



I always wondered what satellite might be ~30° up from 40-ish° latitude and ~105° longitude, with the antenna pointing pretty much due true north, but never bothered to check.

Maybe it's just pointed at ITF* 894.

REF (Just details on the sale of the building, nothing really technical):
https://www.griffincapital.com/griffin-capital-essential-asset-reit/news-and-filings/2014-press-releases/digitalglobe-acquisition

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Actually, that's the old Acetel-Lucent (formerly Lucent, formerly Bell Labs) building in Lisle, Illinois that was sold to Navistar to become their new corporate HQ.   It's on Warrenville Rd. in Lisle.

https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/navistar-finally-closes-on-purchase-of-1-2m-sf-alcatel-lucent-campus-in-suburban-chicago/

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #54 on: November 10, 2018, 10:11:21 PM »
Oops!  Holy cow, there are two buildings like that?

Anyhow, this is the one in the Denver/Westminster/Arvada area to which I was referring.  The one shown above popped up and looked just like the one with which I was familiar.

https://youtu.be/8YAsfygvXGE  (3:30, drone images.)

I can't seem to conveniently find the stills and satellite views of the building any more, but I had daily business nearby for a week or so.

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #55 on: November 11, 2018, 12:32:11 AM »
And no, those weren't "satellite dishes".  Just windows, (I've been in the Navistar building).  Which I found to be an ugly design.

Then there is the old Lucent "west" building, just down Warrenville Rd on the northwest corner with Naperville Rd.

http://www.krjda.com/Sites/LucentNapInfo1.html

 https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160811/CRED03/160819976/nokia-wants-to-sell-former-alcatel-lucent-building-in-naperville 
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #56 on: November 11, 2018, 01:08:07 AM »
"And no, those weren't 'satellite dishes'.  Just windows..."

That's what they want you to think....  [tinfoil]

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Well, that's enufa that, I guess.

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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #57 on: November 14, 2018, 04:53:53 PM »
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Both good points...They are going to tear it down in the near future as it doesn't fit in with the campus master plan.
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #58 on: December 08, 2018, 09:30:18 AM »
I would say that this is is your fault Warren, but we all know it's fistful's fault. https://mymodernmet.com/brutalist-architecture/
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Re: Any opinions on Brutalist buildings here?
« Reply #59 on: December 08, 2018, 03:44:43 PM »
There are some nice buildings at that link.
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