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Architects very often don't design for human scale, but for their career and fame. Human scale may be removed for some or other architectural aesthetic feature
by rapnie 5y ago
Architects very often don't design for human scale, but for their career and fame.
Human scale may be removed for some or other architectural aesthetic feature. Stuff becomes like abstract modern art. And not just on buildings, public spaces too.
An example. In this picture [0] you see the busstation of Haarlem (the monumental train station built together with Amsterdam Central station is on the other side out of view).
Now in the old station you could sit everywhere, dry and out of the wind. New station, none of that. No benches and you wait in the rain. Yet it cost many millions to build (contains an underground bicycle depot). See the tall (they have a small yellow light at 15 meters or so) aluminium poles? Architecture.
[0] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nJfzjF4-S68/WK5o6jdzP4I/AAAAAAAAS8k/o0_5TCEjQEoN6lZxTfvkh3dalDbqbfKnwCLcB/s1600/Busstation_Haarlem_in_striemende_regen.jpg https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nJfzjF4-S68/WK5o6jdzP4I/AAAAAAAAS...