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Originally Posted by JC
I dunno it can be argued that it is of benefit to the city not to have such dreary goverment buildings. If you ask me a city with, for lack of a better term, cool looking buildings is a more enjoyable place to spend time and is more likely to attract a certain type of industry and people. I don't like the Cal-Trans building, but its better than just another monotone office building. Much better.
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I will agree with this, however government buildings with "upscale" and creative archetecture need to be *public* buildings. How many people go hang out at the Cal Trans building? That thing is an office building for people that work for the state... it's not a park, or a stadium, or a library, or a school... the general public has no real business visiting there. Let's save the public's money for stuff the public gets to use.
Hell, being from NorCal, I don't think Cal Trans even deserves it! All they do is fix the freeways in SoCal... meanwhile the Bay Area streets are crowded and rotting to hell. Plus, these are the people that took 15 years to build one freeway interchange! (680/24) The last thing they deserve is a cool building... it's like a pat on the back that they didn't earn. How about we move them all into portable trailers (like all the elementary schools in my town had to use because we couldn't afford to add on real buildings) and tell them "when the roads in SLO aren't made out of sand and glue, you get to move into a place with plumbing. And when you can drive from San Ramon to Fremont in under an hour in the morning, you can have windows."