Urban design is a funny thing. New Brunswick is a humble stop along the Northeast Corridor and it has some imposing .
The Verizon Building on Bayard street takes our first eyesore. I love me some infrastructure, even a cool antenna array on a roof can make an interesting view, but even the one up top can’t save it. It’s nearly windowless and uneven.
When Seattle’s Seafirst Building, a huge black modernist slab, went in 1968 it was locally reviled as “ the box the Space Needle came in.” People like it now.
The Verizon Building went up the same year, yet I can still be comfortable calling this the coffin architecture was buried in. And no one I've spoken to has grown to like it.
(Now, as I post this, I’m of course expecting my cell phone service to cut out...)
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