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Centennial Olympic Park

by Michael D.|  July 20, 200811:25 am| 31 Comments

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A picture of sunny Centennial Olympic Park, taken yesterday.

The Atlanta Westin Hotel

Even 3 months after the tornado, the Westin still hasn’t replaced the windows.

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  1. 1.

    Libby Spencer

    July 20, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Is the Westin the one that has the rotating restaurant on top? I tried eating there once and got seasick. Had to leave after the pre-dinner cocktail without ordering food.

  2. 2.

    smiley

    July 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    I tried eating there once and got seasick.

    Same thing happened to me in the restaurant atop the Space Needle. Had a gift certificate for the meal, though, so had to eat even with the queeziness.

  3. 3.

    w vincentz

    July 20, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Oh sure, Michael…you were taking a pic of the Westin.
    Did you at least get the name and phone # of the lovely young lady in the black string halter in the foreground?

  4. 4.

    Richardson

    July 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    Those be foreign flags! How they done get to be flying in ‘merica?

    The Belgian one is particularly ominous. It will go well with your Kriek though!

  5. 5.

    srv

    July 20, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Windows like that don’t pop out of the factory and get installed overnight. An architect like Philip Johnson probably also had some unique requirement on the windows and they’ll have to reinvent the wheel.

    Even when they get the windows, there are probably only a handful of crews – couple months to install 100+ windows (assuming the frames aren’t damaged, which they probably are).

  6. 6.

    The Thinking Man's Mel Torme

    July 20, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    OT: but thanks to you elitist SOBs and your beer snobbery last week, I had to raid the alarmingly-well-stocked Belgian beer section of the local Total Wine, and I’m right now half-in-the-bag from Duvel, Westmalle, and Mardesous. Like I need another overpriced interest.

  7. 7.

    srv

    July 20, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Did you at least get the name and phone # of the lovely young lady in the black string halter in the foreground?

    Michael has never said he swings both ways.

  8. 8.

    Incertus

    July 20, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    OT: but thanks to you elitist SOBs and your beer snobbery last week, I had to raid the alarmingly-well-stocked Belgian beer section of the local Total Wine, and I’m right now half-in-the-bag from Duvel, Westmalle, and Mardesous. Like I need another overpriced interest.

    There’s an awesome place just north of Fort Lauderdale called Brother Tucker’s that carries all those beers, mostly in bottles but also occasionally on tap, and the food is beyond awesome. I dropped a couple hundred bucks including tip on just Amy and me for her birthday last week.

  9. 9.

    srv

    July 20, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Mardesous

    #8

  10. 10.

    carsick

    July 20, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Personally I like the cross word puzzle effect. When they do replace them I recommend they replace them with dark tinted glass. Makes the building more interesting and there would be a story to tell. In my view, the best architecture tells a story.

  11. 11.

    pablo

    July 20, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    Sure glad I got these two shots before the tornado!

    http://www.pablosnet.com/gallery2/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=21

    http://www.pablosnet.com/gallery2/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1187&g2_page=1

    Considering that the road by the Cotton Mill Lofts is still closed 5 months later, I can’t fault the Weston. I’ve had “back orders” before!

  12. 12.

    Michael D.

    July 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    The South side of the Westin is even worse.

  13. 13.

    w vincentz

    July 20, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    pablo,
    I’m all in favor of deceased pet care. Nice shot.
    I’ll add that “totom” looks a whole lot like Barack, prior to shaving off his beard and ditching the afro look.

    Oh, and Mike,
    If you think the South side of the Westin is worse, I’ll just say, you haven’t seen MY South side. It’s pathetic.
    Not that the East side, nor the North one is anything to write home about either.

  14. 14.

    Pablo

    July 20, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    I tried to link to the pictures of the Weston, but all my dirty laundry got exposed instead.
    Obama is a totem indeed. McCain on the other han, is a Troll under a bridge.

  15. 15.

    eglenn

    July 20, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    My wife works in CNN Center and the explanation that they heard is that all the Peachtree Plaza windows were custom-made by a company that no longer exists. They had enough for ‘standard’ breakage but this went WAY beyond that.

    The World Congress Center was in a similar boat, but theirs was a number of very large picture windows that required special strengthened glass.

  16. 16.

    Libby Spencer

    July 20, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    Nice shots Pablo. I was sorry I didn’t more photos when I lived there. I was really fond of the downtown skyline at night as seen from the top of the hill in the Virginia Highlands. The way the tall buildings stretched out, it reminded me of giant birthday cake with oddly assorted candles.

  17. 17.

    dbrown

    July 20, 2008 at 7:28 pm

    Have to aggree with the one poster, the building looks far, far better missing windows – that says alot about modern building design. It takes a storm to make a modern building look better – what is the world coming too?

  18. 18.

    jrg

    July 20, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    In other news: Nevada GOP state convention CANCELED due to a lack of interest

    Chortle, chuckle, har har har.

  19. 19.

    Bob In Pacifica

    July 20, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    So what does Westin do? Not rent out those rooms or yellow tape them from the inside?

    I remember back in the early 70s there was a great big building in downtown Boston owned by some insurance company that kept popping out windows. I wonder what kind of insurance risk is giant shards of glass falling thirty stories.

  20. 20.

    BH-Buck

    July 20, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    Michael, thanks for the Westin pic. I didn’t know the extent of damage until now.

  21. 21.

    Third Eye Open

    July 20, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    Ahh, good ole Hotlanta…I still don’t like driving through downtown, but the trip through Decatur with a not-so quick stop at the Brick Store for some mighty-fine libations and, I shit-you-not, the best peroggies on the planet may just be the best weekend east of the Mississippi that doesn’t require a uniform and/or ball-gag.

  22. 22.

    Krista

    July 20, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    That looks like so much fun — running through the water on a hot day. Reminds me of when my friends and I would run through the sprinkler on our lawn. :)

  23. 23.

    Delia

    July 20, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    s the Westin the one that has the rotating restaurant on top? I tried eating there once and got seasick. Had to leave after the pre-dinner cocktail without ordering food.

    That brings to mind one of my little rules of life. Never eat in a revolving restaurant, a Chinese joint in a small town, or one anywhere named Diamond Jim’s.

  24. 24.

    The Moar You Know

    July 20, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    jrg Says:

    In other news: Nevada GOP state convention CANCELED due to a lack of interest

    Chortle, chuckle, har har har.

    July 20th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Oh, yes. This was the follow-up to the one where the Paultards and the Reichtards fought a tard war to see which tard would be the tard of the tard party.

    Still seem to be a lot of hurt Paultards who are willing to hold the tard fight hostage unless their tard opinions are RESPECTED DAMMIT and so they couldn’t get enough tards to even form a tard quorum.

    Tardtacular.

  25. 25.

    Delia

    July 20, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    jrg Says:

    In other news: Nevada GOP state convention CANCELED due to a lack of interest

    Chortle, chuckle, har har har.

    Maybe we should send them some cookies or something. Meanwhile, remember back during the primary season when Rush was urging repugs to register as dems to screw up the election? Well, it appears that in Oregon a lot of them did indeed reregister in order to vote for Obama or Hillary (mainly Obama), but now it turns out, they don’t want to go back. In fact, more are reregistering as dems. The repugs are hoping things will get better for them two years down the road.

  26. 26.

    Third Eye Open

    July 20, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Since I don’t know how to do your fancy-pants blue-linky think, here is some Militant-DFH music fo all you punk-ass biznotches: http://www.onedayasalion.org/

  27. 27.

    cain

    July 20, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    That looks like so much fun—running through the water on a hot day. Reminds me of when my friends and I would run through the sprinkler on our lawn

    Seeing as you are still newlyweds, you and your husband should do it together.

    cain

  28. 28.

    jake

    July 21, 2008 at 5:52 am

    “Atlanta Westin may Ah hep ya’ll? Oh, I’m sorry sir, we’re booked up. But we do have a special offer on rooms with a really spectacular view and plenty of fresh air…”

  29. 29.

    pharniel

    July 21, 2008 at 7:23 am

    for those of us going to Dragon con, does anyone know how the mariotte marquis, hyatt regency and the hilton faired?

  30. 30.

    qwerty42

    July 21, 2008 at 8:07 am

    Third Eye Open Says:

    Since I don’t know how to do your fancy-pants blue-linky thing …

    Our host has a doc on that, but the editor has some buttons for it. i code it myself with
    (a href=”full_link”)what_will_magically_turn_blue(/a)
    Of course you don’t use parens, you use angle brackets (on my keyboard, they are above , and . ) The quotes (” “) are needed. Can’t remember what the “a” is for in html anymore (“anchor” ?)

  31. 31.

    Krista

    July 21, 2008 at 8:32 am

    Seeing as you are still newlyweds, you and your husband should do it together.

    Good idea, cain! It may have to wait, however, as it’s supposed to pour rain all this week — the week my coworker took vacation. Poor girl.

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