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Welp, there it is, the tallest skyscraper in Greensboro, an idea of postmodern neogothic, covered in precast concrete intended to resemble terracotta. It's from 1990. It's light gray.

It has a truncated square pyramid on top. Is this getting you worked up. Truncated square pyramids are a/k/a square frustums.

 

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In downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 1st, 2022, the Lincoln Financial Building at the northeast corner of West Market Street and North Greene Street, built from 1988 to 1990 as the Jefferson-Pilot Building, designed by Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, an addition to the building behind it, which it was intended to complement.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Greensboro (7014135)

• Guilford (county) (2001500)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• additions (general components) (300055458)

• arches (300000994)

• digital clocks (300196070)

• Gothic Revival (300021452)

• imitative materials (300137291)

• light gray (300130813)

• office towers (300007046)

• one-way streets (300008266)

• Postmodern (300022208)

• precast concrete (300010771)

• skyscrapers (300004809)

• streetscapes (300249570)

 

Wikidata items:

• 1 June 2022 (Q69306447)

• 1980s in architecture (Q11185955)

• 1990 in architecture (Q2813053)

• 1990s in architecture (Q74235875)

• Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area (Q112612612)

• June 1 (Q2625)

• June 2022 (Q61312787)

• Lincoln Financial Building (Q24036142)

• Lincoln National Corporation (Q1825763)

• Piedmont Triad (Q3067058)

• postmodern architecture (Q595448)

• truncated square pyramid (Q55455166)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Streets—North Carolina (sh2014002660)

 

Union List of Artist Names IDs:

• Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart, and Associates (American architectural firm, contemporary) (500214110)

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Uploaded on July 11, 2022
Taken on June 1, 2022