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Quote: Originally Posted by Trantor yes, exactly. The tenants are responsible for paying condominium taxes, or sometimes, the condominium tax is included in the rent. its just that people associate too much condo with "bought unit" and apartment with "rented unit". But obviously, as you just said, you can have an apartment which is a rented unit under a condo system. Yes, I think that is called sub-letting?...

Quote: Originally Posted by yellowboy06 OK, here are a few skyscrapers that I call REGULAR ... Here are a few skyscrapers that I call IRREGULAR ... From these pictures, you are classifying "regular" as office buildings, and "iregular" as apartment buildings. My guess is that you live near a city that has a downtown that is full of just office buildings because it was mostly destroyed by urban renewal and...

Here are just a few DT Houston buildings that never light up anymore: Wells Fargo Plaza - White neon band at the top only partially lit and/or broken. Wedge International - Used to be outlined in green neon like Dallas' BOA, then later just the very tops, now nothing at all. Heritage Plaza - Myan top used to be outlined with white neon in the shape of an eagle. 1400 Smith (old Enron building) - Used to have a band of white neon around...

^ Edgewater Beach Apartments (Benjamin H. Marshall, 1928). The pink is original.

I think yellowknife wins.

^There's two here in downtown proper, and 2-4 more depending on what you consider just outside the downtown. ^^Calgary's downtown is known from being duller in nature, but even on a cold Sunday morning, Edmonton's dull spot, I found some decent life around the LRT and Stephen Avenue. Calgary reflects a big office city downtown...Downtown Manhattan, the Loop, DTLA, Toronto Downtown, Seattle Downtown, Houston Downtown, etc. all...

Quote: Originally Posted by MINNEAPOLIS-uptown mine would have to be Minnesota's, mostly because of the impressive solid gold statue up by the dome Its a very nice capitol indeed. However, not to be nitpicky, there is no way that statue is solid gold, if it were, it'd be worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. Its probably gold leaf like the statue on top of the Wisconsin Capitol dome.

Well no zoning I think is a bit reckless. I'm a supporter of form based codes and do think that government oversight is needed to prevent undesirable use combinations (the obvious: industrial next to residential, hazardous, etc. etc.) as well as to steer aesthetically pleasing proportions, i.e. comfortably flexible FAR guidelines that developers can work with. But as far as mandating financially unreasonable density limits and other...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tom In Chicago yellowboy06. . . where do you live? Why?

Quote: Originally Posted by new.slang i think by regular he means office buildings without balconies irregular means buildings with balconies/that are residential looking? Yeah, that's what I was getting at.