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Your counter-examples appear to be yet more glass behemoths devoid of life or color
by skupig 5y ago
Your counter-examples appear to be yet more glass behemoths devoid of life or color
- aaronbrethorst 5y ago"That's just like, your opinion, man"
- nitrogen 5y agoBetter for a building's inhabitants to be free to bring their own life and color, than for the building to try to impose one decade's view of life and color upon every generation for the next century.
- chuckee 5y agoHow do you propose they do that? For example, take your typical steel-and-glass skyscraper, such as the One World Trade Center. How can the inhabitants make the exterior less hostile? Or affect it at all? And isn't the complete absence of any kind of style, color, or pleasant features in general, an imposition of a specific view in itself? And finally, is what you describe even a problem? How many people living in old Art Deco skyscrapers are miserable and trying to leave due to having a century-old style imposed upon them? Or people living in historic neighborhoods? Whereas featureless gray cubes "free them to bring their own life and color"?
- nitrogen 5y agoThe life of a building comes from the way it is used, not the way it is decorated. There is no need to decorate the outside of the WTC, because it's the experience of being inside that matters. As for gray cubes, you can shine any color or pattern of light on them you want.