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I'm really glad de didn't go for the monstrosities that where proposed after the fire. I'm was not against making something new (like what Violet le Duc did),

I'm really glad de didn't go for the monstrosities that where proposed after the fire. I'm was not against making something new (like what Violet le Duc did), but everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. > We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres This is big misunderstanding: the glass pyramid wasn't built by replacing parts of the Louvre: it was built in place of the parking lot of the ministry of Finances! (And yet, to say it was controversial back then is a massive understatement) Also Parisians now aren't against new things, we've been numerous to sign a petition to make the Olympic flame aerostat a permanent feature of the city.

jim-jim-jim 2y ago
> everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. The McMansion Hell lady introduced me to the idea of "PR-chitecture." You'll see it everywhere once you're familiar with it, including many other fields of design.
- throw0101c 2y ago
  > PR-chitecture is, essentially, the architectural equivalent of vaporware: Proposed projects, ideas, and innovations that generate a lot of hype and publicity and yet never materialize (and even when they do materialize, they do so in a muddled-down form). It’s architecture for the click economy, a product of the internet age of short attention spans and a constant, uncritical drive towards the new and shiny. PR-chitecture is the inevitable result of an image-driven, buzzword-laden media atmosphere where big ideas and sumptuous imagery are rewarded time and time again with attention, clicks, and opportunities over the work of up-and-coming or more critical and subversive practitioners. * https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-wont-save-us-from-the-pandemic/ https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-w... * https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrifting-a-design-phenomenon https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrif...

jim-jim-jim 2y ago

> everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. The McMansion Hell lady introduced me to the idea of "PR-chitecture." You'll see it everywhere once you're familiar with it, including many other fields of design.

throw0101c 2y ago
> PR-chitecture is, essentially, the architectural equivalent of vaporware: Proposed projects, ideas, and innovations that generate a lot of hype and publicity and yet never materialize (and even when they do materialize, they do so in a muddled-down form). It’s architecture for the click economy, a product of the internet age of short attention spans and a constant, uncritical drive towards the new and shiny. PR-chitecture is the inevitable result of an image-driven, buzzword-laden media atmosphere where big ideas and sumptuous imagery are rewarded time and time again with attention, clicks, and opportunities over the work of up-and-coming or more critical and subversive practitioners. * https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-wont-save-us-from-the-pandemic/ https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-w... * https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrifting-a-design-phenomenon https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrif...