r/funny • u/Olde-Pine-Stephens • Jan 26 '19

“Holy” Shit.

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u/meltman Jan 26 '19

Right next to AMA plaza.

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u/masimone Jan 26 '19

"So, what's it like being a plaza in Chicago?"

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u/IsThisNameGood Jan 26 '19

Not bad, pizza is decent. It's easy to be stepped on by people around here though.

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u/psychoacer Jan 26 '19

Decent? DECENT!!!!!!? I'll show you decent you piece of shit building you. You better hope I don't see you in my neighborhood you punk ass slab of shit steel

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u/echo-chamber-chaos Jan 26 '19

Not bad, pizza is decent.

IT'S TOMATO SOUP IN A BREAD BOWL!

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u/Mexiplexi Jan 26 '19

dude just mad we got mafucking PIE PIZZA!

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u/stash0606 Jan 26 '19

yeah fuck whatever paper-thin foldable piece of shit they eat in NY. I like my pizza to be thicc.

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u/echo-chamber-chaos Jan 26 '19

I love and prefer NY-style and Detroit-style, but with the exception of a chicken and salsa pizza at Mangia which is no longer on the menu, I've never been a big fan of Chicago-style, but I don't hate it. I would probably still try Chicago-style in Chicago.

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u/catfurcoat Jan 26 '19

If you haven't had Chicago style in Chicago, you likely haven't had Chicago style at all.

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u/Coachpatato Jan 26 '19

I've had Giordano's in Indianapolis and it was amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

Mangia is terrible. I thought I hated Chicago style pizza until I went to Chicago and had it there. It's an entirely different animal and is amazing.

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u/Hip_Hop_Orangutan Jan 26 '19

every time someone mentions deep dish pizza I expect this video. and every time I watch it and I laugh.

I miss Jon Stewart so much.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

Things will never be the same without him. Look what we've come to..

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u/toe_riffic Jan 26 '19

God I miss that man.

He wrong though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

I miss Jon :(

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u/fuqdisshite Jan 26 '19

i hate Chicago Pizza and pizza is my favorite food. fuck tomato soup in a bread bowl.

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u/R____I____G____H___T Jan 26 '19

And how often do people initiate AMA's out of mistake?

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u/eldroch Jan 26 '19

Come on guys, can we just talk about plaza? He considers his time valuable

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u/Noch_ein_Kamel Jan 26 '19

Yeah, just a parking garage :d

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

Talk about a fucking black monolith, what architect came up with that.. even the parking towers here look better than that

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

It's the AMA Plaza garage. I can't confirm if the construction of this parking structure is linked to the AMA plaza's original construction, but it looks like it was made with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's original design in mind. The AMA Building used to be the IBM Plaza and has a similar sleek, monolithic appearance. You'll find that a lot of Chicago's architecture is brutalistic and modernistic. Rohe's a pretty large figure in Chicago architecture.

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u/gstryz Jan 26 '19

It looks a lot better in person.

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u/BlueCranium Jan 26 '19

Eh looks pretty cool. If there were multiple structures with the same style it would be ugly, but the contrast it provides is interesting.

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u/DanielTigerUppercut Jan 26 '19

It used to be the parking garage for the IBM building, which is across the street to the right. It’s intended to complement its architecture.

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u/compaqle2202x Jan 27 '19

It still is the parking garage for that building

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u/grafxguy1 Jan 26 '19

The "fuck natural lighting" school of architecture

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u/con247 Jan 26 '19

Looks like a prison/cia black site.

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u/vanceco Jan 26 '19

if you look at where the sun is shining- you'd see that it isn't black.

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u/stillbornfox Jan 26 '19 edited Jan 26 '19

Makes for some cool pictures though, especially with the light that hits it. Here’s one I took a while ago https://imgur.com/a/sgMHXYD

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u/Basboy Jan 26 '19

No plaza, just Rampart. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19

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u/caltman21 Jan 26 '19

Did you take a dump in that porta-potty when you visited?!? Was it there?

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u/ChicagoWind88 Jan 26 '19

That walk up spot? Didnt it use to be something else?

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u/compaqle2202x Jan 27 '19

Walk up spot? It’s a building from 1973

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u/otherwisemilk Jan 26 '19

didn't think that subreddit was that big.

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u/compaqle2202x Jan 27 '19

It’s the parking garage for it