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Some
time ago I wrote about the Miami Herald building and a push to protect it by
providing it with some sort of historic designation. At the time I compared the that challenge to
the effort to save Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago
through a similar strategy. You can find that blog here.
Well,
Prentice is just about gone now, the towers licked down to the base of the
structure like a child’s ring pop. And
the other day the Miami Herald building, at least part of it, got itself blown
up. So it’s on the way out, too.
Beside
the unfortunate demolition of the two buildings that links the two cities, there
is another architectural tie-in. The
Miami Herald headquarters was designed along the same Mid-Century Modern lines
that the Sun Times building brought to the Chicago River in 1958, the two
buildings designed by the same firm, that of C. F. Murphy. Look at the two side by side, and the
pedigree shows.
The
Sun Times building is gone now, kicked off the lot to make room for Trump
Tower, which seems like a fair trade.
Maybe the extermination of the Miami Herald building will yield similar
results. It’s hard to argue against a
$236 million dollar resort complex in ritzy-glitzy land.
Still
it’s tough to see the thing blown up. We
might have accepted the building somewhere in Chicago if they had just
asked.
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