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Can anything surpass the vulgar attempt at architecture as the new tourism building at McFarland Park now slated to go out of budget a half-million $$? The accepted design defies all sacred laws of architecture pleasing to the brain except for one gothic-like light fixture attached to a South wall of the building. The lone fixture does have parallel sides and Christian proportions but other than that any line segment of the building, if extended, terminates no where other than hell itself. 

 

I don't know what invention can be tried with the half million $$ but maybe God him self can step in and guide someone to design something exterior to the building, if nothing other than pieces of farm machinery suspended on poles to give architectural complement to the building and  give the eye of some unwary sojourner the feeling of symmetry.

 

I'm thankful that Vitruvius, Frank Lloyd and the Native Americans are not here to see this. 

 

TD reports the sprinkler system for landscaping was not thought of until after the building was built and sidewalks were poured.

 

Well, the sprinkler system was also overlooked when the harbor at Florence was renovated to include parking lots, a marina, streetlights, a playground and sidewalks. After it was all built it was realized that no one had thought to include the sprinkler system. What did the city do? They dug the whole place up and installed, at extra cost, a sprinkler system that failed and doesn't even work to this day.

 

Now the same plan is in effect at the newly constructed tourism building. Dig the place up and install a half million$$ sprinkler system.

 

What will the city do next?

 

Mine eyes are also awaiting the finished portal of the new science building at UNA facing South. It appears to be two ill proportioned concrete columns that have nothing what-so-ever to do with anything else on campus. We'll see. Maybe there will be tail fins attached to the bottom to resemble a Saturn Rocket. That would make sense at least.

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http://quadcitiesdaily.com/?p=72096 ole Steve is on the ball for you.

Architect Rendering of new Florence/Lauderdale County Visitor's Center. Architect: Robert W. Whitten

It looks like a movie theater complex to me. The front faces South. There are no other windows except on the rear facing North. The symmetry is just not there. The two little doors on either side of the front are for what? The one horizontal groove in the large boxes on the ends does not line up with anything on the front. The downspouts painted green are the only thing that breaks monotony of the large boxes on each end. [East &West]

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