Downtown's New Buildings

The good, the ugly & the hideous

by James Leonard

posted 12/31/2008

“Why are so many of the buildings going up around town so ugly?” asks Joan Lowenstein. Standing in City Hall’s cramped main entrance, the not-yet-former city council representative isn’t afraid to name names. Her “ugly” buildings include the Corner House Apartments on State and the Ashley Terrace condos on Huron (shown)—she calls the latter a “ziggurat wannabe.”

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