Downtown – Rochester, New York
Catenary structure in the downtown also doubling as a sculptural element uniting other tall buildings together.
Shorter historic buildings covered up with billboard and signage, while large scale development spreads block by block.
Classically inspired building in downtown Rochester.
Partial skyline and a detail of the Times Square Building that laid its cornerstone the day of the stock market crash in 1929.
Powers Building was built in 1869 and is a nine-story building with Second Empire mansard roof details.
Jane Jacobs in the Economy of Cities wrote, “Xerox’s success, great as it has been, has not transformed Rochester back into a vigorous, developing city. It would take many organizations and people adding new work to old, and much diversity of development, to accomplish that (Jacobs, 1969, p. 98).
While not fancy, the manhole cover with the City of Rochester text has some design quality to it.