Lola at the Coffee House, Cafe 101

That photo f****d up my computer, dang it. Get with the program.

I didn't know about the Korean Center (slurps late afternoon latte, such a tacky thing to do, apparently)

Damn, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that there are some people on A2K who still have the wind-up version of a PC.

That looks like a building everyone will cheer and applaud when they push the plunger on the dynamite.

Yes, that certainly was an architectural mishap. Prices in that building are
extremely high though. Their monthly maintenance fee is already $1000 - 1500.
It's mainly occupied by second-home-owners and retirees.

Well, you know what I think, so I won't elaborate.

On the cove photo I linked, and that I whined about, I think those buildings were later built a bit south around the curve from where I lived and south from where the monstrosity still reposes. More toward what we called Shell Beach or south of that.

A side point, my landlord in the victorian used to commute from there to hollywood each day, and he was an old guy then. Well, hell, I was 22-23, so he might only have been sixty. Heh.
Hmmm, maybe I can find something about them in the local news archives.

I suppose I should rattle on about this - to wit -

I'm keen on ocean access, and ocean views, somewhat follow the pros and cons, at least re california, even though one of my friends has a malibu colony place, and a cousin had to change their building plans.

On the other hand, I don't always hate tall buildings in a city near water, take Chicago... but then Chicago did consider public access to some degree.

Ive lost interest in the project,but does anyone know what the final design for the World Trade center II will be?

I saw the POS "compromise dsign" and found it unremarkeable and uncreative. Were any changes (think: "for the better") made in ensuing drafts.

I followed that incessantly in the beginning, most agreeing with Maya Lin's take on it, but never mind. I gave up, it seems like, a few years ago, big messola.

Here is the final design. The building also will be renamed from "Freedom Tower" to "One World Trade Center" and should be completed in 2011 -
10 years after 9/11.

Well, if one enjoys living in a glassed-in rabbit hutch or bee hive with or without an ocean view. Promontory Point in NPB, not that modern by any means and based on Spanish architecture:

What a horrible, tasteless architectural feat that is.

It is meant to be funny isn't it. Say it is meant to be funny. Please.

I likd the original design that had a complex of buildings that seemed to all point to the tower , and the tower had a neat twist to it. This one is just ok but it doesnt nock yer socks off. Oh well the original WTC was kind of an ugly redux of 1950's project buildings

I was dismayed when they rejected the original design but not at all astonished -- it's the Port Authority and some major leasers that I thought were the committee to approve the design but I'd have to look it up again.

It's a glass-house-boys throwback (need we know what firm got the contract just by looking at it?) With all the imaginative and innovative skyscrapers being build by other countries, notably Asian countries, we get the bland conservative glass monstrosity only appreciated by the Wingnut businessmen who want to lease space.

Latest estimate of completion date for that tower is end-2013.

I'm often on the 42nd floor of 7, WTC (a new building) and looking down on that gaping hole is enough to make me doubt even that latest estimate for all 108 floors planned for 1, WTC. But I'm glad for the name switch - it's like "freedom fries", people have gone back to calling them French - imposed by the rental agents, who said (correctly, imho) that nobody wants to live in a mausoleum, and 1, WTC, is more commercially acceptable.

If everyone has seen now enough buildings, hope it's OK to bring into Lola's Coffee House some furniture - basics, like a table or a bed. This is my current favorite (serves as either piece) though people here with piercings shouldn't roll under it - it floats by magnetism:

You're right, "Freedom Building" would have been silly. Frankly, having been
to the old WTC and having seen Ground Zero, I am all in favor for a memorial
park and forego another WTC altogether.

How about this view?

Looks like the monolith from "2001." I'd stay away from that furniture -- you could get sucked into another galaxy, grow old and get reborn as a Star Baby.

Is that Cardiff-By-The-Sea or Carlsbad?

It does look like 2001's monolith - that's where the idea came from:

http://bedzine.com/blog/bed-frame/magnetic-floating-bed/