Which theater would you rather go to?
Yesterday's Baltimore Sun has an article about the Mechanic Theater, an urban brutalist urban renewal project that has been supplanted by the restoration and rehabilitation of the Hippodrome Theater. The article, "Face-lift for the Mechanic: The darkened theater's new owner hires an architect to redesign the plain concrete exterior of one of downtown's early symbols of renewal" discusses the plans the owner has for bringing back this theater
But this is definitely a case of a picture being worth thousands of words--and shows that "modernism-based urban renewal" doesn't seem to be a long-term sustainable redevelopment strategy.




Urban brutalist modernism, or grand places? Does the Mechanic Theater have a future at all?
Click here for more Hippodrome photos from the Baltimore Sun.
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