Gray Is Bustin' Out All Over

Woo. Hoo. These photos are typical of how the city 

has looked this week, either gray and damp,

or gray and cold. Looking south from the corner

of Ohio and Capitol Streets, one can see the facade of

the Simon Properties corporate headquarters.

It looks like it has a giant tuning fork stuck on its front.

When it was being erected, one critic remarked that

the Simon family could have afforded the services of an

architect who would design a creative landmark,

instead giving us more of the same pre-fab concrete,

granite, and limestone facades that make up the

rest of the downtown offices.

Take a look towards the east, along Ohio Street,

and one can see the same ol'-sameol'

with little variation in color or width of stripes.

It must be one of the classes in basic architecture -

Stripes: Glass and Granite 101.