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Pyare Square gets vote for America's ugliest building on Fark.com
Wisconsin Historical Society Architecture and History Inventory (4610 University Avenue)
8/30/2017 update starts here.
Photos by Retiring Guy
Floor plans. Prices not included. (We probably don't want to know.)
3/7/2017 update, " The Lodge 2 on University Avenue starts to assert itself ", starts here.
2 more floors added during the past month. (I think that's it.)
Photos by Retiring Guy
A view from the northeast corner of the DOT parking lot.
Source: The Lodge at Walnut Grove
2/2/2017 update, "The Lodge 2 rises where Pyare Square once stood tall", starts here.
At the entrance to the Walnut Grove shopping center and The Lodge 1 apartments. (Scroll down to last photo in this serial post for a 'before' shot.)
The companion project to The Lodge 1 takes shape.
One of The Lodge 1 buildings in the foreground; The Lodge 2 construction in the distance.
From the bike-ped path
1/6/2017 update, "The end of Pyare Square: The Lodge 2 rises from the ruins", starts here.
Curbside on University Avenue.
Along the bike/ped path that follows the southern edge of Blackhawk Country Club
From the northeast corner of the WI DOT building parking lot
10/22/2016 update, " 'An underperforming asset needs a performing partner'", starts here.
The Lodge at Walnut Grove/The Lodge 2
10/3/2016 update," The end of Pyare Square", starts here.
9/2/2016 update, "Pyare Square just about down to rubble", starts here.
Photos by Retiring Guy
Pyare Square holds its place in history. (Wisconsin State Journal, 9/2/2016)
Anyway, during its first decade, Pyare Square served as the DNR’s state headquarters. The DNR then moved its offices to downtown Madison, and has since occupied a building as unique as a four-drawer filing cabinet. That’s OK. At least the DNR’s law-enforcement folks haven’t compelled me to appear there in person.
8/26/2016 update, " Getting down to the core of Pyare Square", start here.
Photo by Retiring Guy
(as are the videos and all the rest of the photos)
8/23/2016 update, "Working overtime, duskily, at Pyare Square demolition", starts here.
Pyare Square slowly disappears from Shorewood Hills landscape. (Capital Times, 8/20/2016)
You'll find 2 of my videos accompanying this article.
8/19/2016 update, "Pyare Square down to skeletal halfsies", starts here.
8/14/2016. Down to the 11th floor.
(7/26/2016 update.) Pyare Square Building being slowly demolished after 47 years of prominence on West Side. (Wisconsin State Journal, 7/20/2016)
All photos by Retiring Guy
Completed in 1969. Original tenant: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
A 2008 proposal to convert the building to condominiums proved to be a case of bad timing as far as the housing market was concerned.
7/15/2016 update, " The White Building becoming shell of former self, soon to be nothing at all", start here.
Photos by Retiring Guy
From the March 2016 Shorewood Hill Village Bulletin:
Looks like it's not completely a top-down demolition.
Original 7/2/2016 post, Say goodbye to The White Building, a.k.a. Pyare Square', starts here.
Pretty soon I won't have to use the tree as a cover-up.
All photos by Retiring Guy
Pyare Square is in the procees of being torn down, and an apartment complex is taking its place.
The video version.
When my wife and I first moved to the area, there used to be a restaurant in the section behind the tower. We went there just once, for the fish fry, and it was terrible.
Based on what I heard the other day, we won't be seeing this view much longer. (I have yet to see anything in print about the project, however.)
Related post:
"The White Building": What's Going to Happen to Pyare Square? (9/16/2014)
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