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Lunchtime Photo

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What is this? The first person to correctly identify it gets the warm thrill of being right.

UPDATE: And the winner is D_Ohrk_E1, who correctly recognized this as a parking structure across the street from the UCI Medical Center in Orange. One side is covered in mostly bluish flaps and another in mostly reddish flaps.

May 29, 2021 — Orange, California

16 thoughts on “Lunchtime Photo”

    2. D_Ohrk_E1

      Some things to note:

      1) City -- noted by KD -- makes it infinitely faster and easier when you can set parameters.
      2) Fins -- they're metal, prefinished, and lightweight (noted by the singular bolted joint at the horizontal girt, implying a spacing of at least 8' or more). IOW, not bespoke, so, not an expensive design option.
      3) CMU wall -- painted charcoal, is something typical of a low-cost wall portion of a parking structure.
      4) Why fins -- most downtown cores have design guidelines and fins are one solution to resolving having to cover up a parking structure's façade.
      5) You can roughly estimate the number of floors, ~4-5, which, assuming no one bothered to make a parking structure "tower", it would have aligned to roughly the rest of the building. One particular type of structure that aligns well with ~4-5 floors is (old code) Type V-B construction, most commonly the cheapest method to build apartments, capped at ~4-5 floors depending on other factors.

      2. yerfdogyrag

        It looks like he's standing by the red pipes; the pattern (blue, cyan, cyan, cyan, pink, cyan, pink, blue) seems to appear over there.

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