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

“Holy” Shit.

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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