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AT&T Long Lines "Oak Hill" Tower, San Jose, CA, 2021. (fedia.io)

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AT&T Long Lines "Oak Hill" Tower, San Jose, CA, 2021.

A monopoly of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51261791084

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I'm pretty sure we will

The brownstones of Brooklyn -- over which these days Wall Street guys frantically try to outbid one another with $3-$4 million offers -- because they're regarded as gorgeous and iconic ...

... were, when they were first built in the 19th century, utterly loathed by veddy propah citizens as being hideously ugly eyesores

While recognizing that horrible contemporary design does indeed exist, I have trouble fully trusting here-and-now aesthetic judgements