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Beautiful dreamer, never alone,
starlight and moonbeams are guiding you home...
all lol of your worries that fill up the day,
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Buckhead Gay™
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Buckhead Gay™
@SCFLLATXGA
Waspiest Jew you’ll ever meet. We’re living in a material world & I’m a material girl.
Buckhead, Atlanta Bergabung Kasım 2014
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@HamptonPrezcott My favorite fun fact about the Pompidou is that it resulted in Renzo’s first US commission.
One of its largest donors was an American woman who had struggled to find an architect for her museum after her primary choice died.
She liked Renzo enough & built the @MenilCollection.
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Centre Pompidou is far from my cup of tea architecturally, but unlike the “modernism” of today it actually has personality and is distinctive. Contrasted with the sterile glass boxes of today that go out of their way to not be memorable
Robert Bork III@BobbyBorkIII
Well it has one…
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Here’s Mellie Esperson operating the steam shovel being used to break ground on the 22 story office building named after her late husband Neils.
Houstorian@Houstorian
Today in 1926, the Niels Esperson Building cornerstone is laid.
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One of the nation’s best states.
Liberal enough to outpace the Deep South with a financial pedigree to match New England a sophistication to match.
Would trade Atlanta GA for Columbus OH in a heartbeat.
Andrew Anderson@uscfan981
Say something nice about Ohio.
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@CompletedStreet The Hurricane of 1900 isn’t the only event that put a nail in the coffin for Galveston. The discovery of oil at Spindletop in January 1901 played a major role too.
Houston was far more convenient for the gas industry and you still had to go through it to access Galveston.
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What if the massive 1900 hurricane didn't hit Galveston? It may have grown to be as significant as New Orleans, or even the Manhattan of the Gulf.
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The problem with great ads on two sides of the same page deciding which one to frame :/
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@HamptonPrezcott Exactly. It’s very much a situation of refusing to fix something because it’s always been that way.
The solutions are obvious and in front of people‘s faces but because they aren’t the traditional answer the people here want no part.
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@SCFLLATXGA There’s a much more significant sense of urgency to solve problems in virtually every other prominent Sun Belt metro. Here, people treat these problems as if they are some unavoidable fact of life. So a lot of laziness and a general lack of imagination or ambition.
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I think this is indisputable, and the fact that more people aren’t speaking out about this obvious trend (Atlanta falling behind other Sun Belt metros) needs to change.
Chris Bender@cbenderatl
I'm going to say something controversial, but it needs to be said. Our Mayor is a fine person, but he is not a Leader. Charlotte, Dallas, Raleigh, Nashville and Austin are eating our lunch attracting good jobs and HQ's. Atlanta used to be a leader, and now we are runner-up.
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@HamptonPrezcott I’ve lived in Atlanta the last 8 years & I grew up in another big Sunbelt metro. I’ve also experienced many of the other competing Sunbelt metros and the differences are obvious.
Atlanta has potential but it’s wasting it away with others fast approaching in its rearview mirror.
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@NoahMF I also wouldn’t rank Atlanta in the B tier. Its museums are hilariously underfunded for a city of its size and economic stature. St Louis, Raleigh, & New Orleans have superior art museums.
Atlanta’s High Museum of Art enjoys 1/10 the funding of the MFAH.
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@NoahMF The one city you didn’t mention & should’ve is Fort Worth.
The Kimbell & Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth have significant art collections on par with Boston & San Francisco housed in buildings by legendary architects.
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New York and Washington have S tier museums and LA, Chicago and Houston have A tier. Nobody else comes close. Boston, Philadelphia, maybe Atlanta and San Francisco maybe have B tier.
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
"Solid B cities might not have the MoMA, but they are likely to have good museums, a great brewery scene, a functional bike path, and a minor-league stadium. To live in a place you can afford with a municipal government that works, this hardly seems like a consolation prize."
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It’s also 1996 Pritzker Prize winner Rafael Moneo’s first US commission.
Houstorian@Houstorian
Today in 2000, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opened its new Audrey Jones Beck Building, a three-story, 185,000-square-foot building on Main Street directly across from the existing museum. @MFAH
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Lynn Wyatt once flew cattle in from Texas for this ball when Princess Grace asked her to host it in 1981.
She gave it a “Yellow Rose of Texas” theme and the cattle wore yellow ribbons.
Tatler@Tatlermagazine
Inside Monaco Rose Ball: the annual ball established by Princess Grace in 1954 tatlermagazine.visitlink.me/BzTIu2
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Originally it was written about the state of Massachusetts.
David Scott Harris@HVNYrefugee
POV: Someone from VA is explaining how the song “Country Roads” is ACTUALLY about WEST Virginia, not WV
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I was going through my phone earlier today and came across these pictures of a monumental Richard Serra I photographed back in 2023.
Getting inside & up close to a sculpture by Serra? Infinite joy.
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@HamptonPrezcott It’s a tragedy. Johnson was notorious for going over budget but the final product more than made up for it almost always.
Cost is important but so is great design.
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The Gerald Hines/Phillip Johnson is the template for my ideal career progression (just need to find my architect partner!).
Very few real estate development firms differentiate themselves with stellar architecture any more, feels like a massive gap in the market.
Buckhead Gay™@SCFLLATXGA
@HamptonPrezcott 2 of them are by the same architect and developer. Highly recommend looking up architect Philip Johnson & his relationship with developer Gerald Hines. The two built a steady stream of elegant PoMo towers across the country between 1976 & 1992.
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@HamptonPrezcott 2 of them are by the same architect and developer.
Highly recommend looking up architect Philip Johnson & his relationship with developer Gerald Hines. The two built a steady stream of elegant PoMo towers across the country between 1976 & 1992.
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There was a brief period from 1987-1992 where we did nothing but develop beautiful, architecturally distinct and timeless high rises.
Ike Ijeh@ikeijeh
Both these hotels are 13 storeys. Height is not the problem.
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My father had cancer several years ago.
After dealing with his homophobia and verbal abuse throughout my childhood, my comment to him was “get fucked.”
Allie ✞@allie__voss
“I don’t want to take care of my parents”: heartless, unloving, immature “Oh I forgot to mention: they have the wrong political beliefs”: stunning, brave, principled, basically Rosa Parks
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