Possibly just a questionable aesthetic choice?
I have many questions. This part of the building has been there for quite sometime and I don’t remember those seams being there. Did they put up a new veneer? Seems like an odd aesthetic choice, if that’s what it was.urban_dilettante wrote: ↑May 10, 2021i just assumed it's brick veneer. otherwise not sure what they would be.
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^ there's a photo on the previous page that shows the structure beneath the brick facade. looks like cinder blocks.
^ While I certainly prefer the original faux brick facade...I’m curious why they swapped out the original veneer...seems a bit unnecessary.
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oh i see what you mean. i don't even remember what it looked like prior to this new veneer.
^ Truth be told, I’m only looking from the satellite point of view. But even from that it seems the brick pattern was different in years past than it is now.
They are control joints. In short, they removed all the existing brick veneer on the addition, cut new oversized openings in the existing concrete block walls, then added lintels and reinforced/rebuilt the concrete block to the size of the new window openings. Then, they rebuilt the veneer wall using the existing brick.wabash wrote: ↑May 10, 2021What's that all about? The masons who built Bologna, Amsterdam, Cincy, St. Louis, and every other great brick city, didn't need seems (or at least not of that sort). Is it because it's easier (cheaper) to maintain the brick section-by-section over time? I don't think those are panels like Busch, I think it's actual brick.urban_dilettante wrote: ↑May 10, 2021argh... i hate the seams.
For all intense porpoises, it's a new wall, and the code says new brick walls must have control joints...
Steve Patterson did a write-up on it last year that has lots of work-in-progress pics:
Urban Review: Ugly Addition Being Transformed Into New Entrance To Former Post-Dispatch Building, Square’s New St. Louis Offices
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I've seen photos and videos of the interior. Pretty swanky. I don't have permission to share, but I hope part of it is open to the public once the office opens.
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These are out there online publicly. Not sure who the first one is by, by second and third are by Trivers. Last two are by Cannon Design.Miss Shell wrote: ↑May 11, 2021I've seen photos and videos of the interior. Pretty swanky. I don't have permission to share, but I hope part of it is open to the public once the office opens.
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Looks pretty close to the real deal!
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Wait...that's an owl?? Huh. Always thought it was an eagle, which, admittedly, seemed...odd.
Either way, glad they didn't replace it with a glowing Square or something, but it looks like it could use a little TLC.
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^They sure look like panels. If it's not pre-fab why would you have seems like that? The seems are always irritating, but, well, it's an addition. Maybe it'll be a candidate for a reskin twenty years from now. (That I'll probably oppose on principal.) 
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i'm guessing b/c the owl symbolizes knowledge?urbanitas wrote: ↑May 11, 2021Wait...that's an owl?? Huh. Always thought it was an eagle, which, admittedly, seemed...odd.
The Globe-Democrat built the building, and the internet tells me it was their symbol...although I don't see any evidence of an owl ever being on their masthead or logo. Also, the bird above the entrance of their "new" building is definitely an eagle.
Either way, from a distance it looks an awful lot like one of the favorite bits of symbology of a rather infamous political party from the same time period this building was built (1930).
It'll be interesting to see what becomes of that old red-brick survivor just across the street. It's always been maintained, and for a while, it served as a gallery/studio for a local artist. Not sure what's there now.
^ Pretty sure it's a single family home now. The owner has posted on NextDoor from time to time.
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OMG the 'neighbors' next to the new square building-adjacent to St. Vincent's WORSE than Larry Rices' former location! Horrible!
Welcome to St. Louis
Welcome to St. Louis
As someone who lived and worked downtown for 6 years, 4 of those years at Tucker & Washington, I love St. Patrick Center and they do amazing work.
Also, not sure what "St. Vincent's" is.
Also, not sure what "St. Vincent's" is.
^ Yeah my family and I take food to St. Patrick’s quite a bit, especially around the holidays. They need to stay right where they are.
Square moves into new downtown St. Louis office
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https://www.stltoday.com/business/local ... op-story-1
Monday marks move-in day for Square Inc.’s more than 850 local employees, who will finally experience their new downtown St. Louis office after more than a year of working from home.
The San Francisco payment processing company is allowing vaccinated employees to work from its new office, at 900 North Tucker Boulevard, the former home of the Post-Dispatch. The company moved from the Cortex innovation district. Square, founded and led by Twitter CEO and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey, and sister company Cash App will occupy about 226,000 square feet for the next 15 years.
The company says its new space can accommodate up to 1,200 employees. It has 300 job openings across engineering, sales, operations, design, recruiting and customer service that could be done in the St. Louis area, officials said. Square employed nearly 5,500 people companywide at the end of 2020.