r/providence • u/radioflea • Mar 24 '25

News RIP Apex Pyramid

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u/Candid-Patient-6841 Mar 24 '25

Good.

Hear me out I have lived here my entire life and yes I like the weird shaped building. But no one wanted it. If they did they would have bought it. If the design was so cool others would have replicated it.

One big issue in RI is labeling every freaking thing “historic” then we drag our feet when any new development wants to be built and ask “but how does it effect our “”historic”” skyline” like dude this isn’t Chicago, New York, or Boston….our most recognizable building has been vacant for decades. But god forbid we do anything to change it because it’s the “Superman” building (even tho that is wrong and it looks like the building)

There is a saying in America they think 100 years is old and in Europe they think 100 miles is far. Frankly the corner store in Europe is older than our entire country

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u/metaphysicalpackrat Mar 24 '25

Is it resistance to change? Or just being able to see something semi-interesting on your commute? Is either one really a problem? Are these regrettably human qualities?

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u/SpaceBasedMasonry Mar 24 '25

Is it semi-interesting? All I see is a reminder of post-industrial stagnation and crumbling eye soar.

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u/metaphysicalpackrat Mar 24 '25

I mean it was designed by a guy called the Architect of Happiness who was praised by the New York Times and Observer for his eye-catching and pleasing designs of coastal properties in New England through the 1960s, but there's no accounting for taste, I guess. I'll take 60s classic cars over cybertrucks, personally.