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The first image is telling: A glass building in front of a white hard-floor plaza with just one small tree for shade Nothing specific to the European commissio
by cassepipe 3mo ago
The first image is telling: A glass building in front of a white hard-floor plaza with just one small tree for shade
Nothing specific to the European commission though, we just don't hate mainstream architects enough
- cineticdaffodil 3mo agoIt would burn less, if not all these abstract architects would sit in old art nouveau buildings near a park, with the AC tastefully hidden in the backyard - and there they sit on the MAC, shitting out these etched waver under the ERM buildings and cities for the rest of us to be miserable in.
- 6510 3mo agoIt once struck me that so called school chairs are actually far more fascinating than one would think. To me, they are the ultimate symbol of something one would never buy to use yourself. https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sa=X&sca_esv=9e14c540528a302f&udm=2&q=school+chair https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sa=X&sca_esv=9e14c54052... Look at those torture devices! They don't even look like chairs.
- cineticdaffodil 3mo agoOh, but that is what came from the Bauhaus- because back then wood crafted furniture was ridiculous expensive- and these are just the cheapest thing anyone can afford. Bend pipes and one wooden back plate steambend. Clank it out of a factory for 5 $ and everyone be seated. That is where the hatred for ornamentation originated from- labour was expensive, craftsmen where rare, ornamentation was luxury and a display of wealth disparity. Today everyone could have all the ornamentation he or she wanted. Have your whole insta-history as 3d relief 3d printed as gypsum on your house facade. But thats still mor expensive then ornamentation. Capitalism loves ugly and hates its customers.
- delichon 3mo agoIt's not exactly the Council of Elrond. It's appropriate for the design to be closer to Barad-dûr than Rivendell.
- wlesieutre 3mo agoIf we're pulling LotR references, a white plaza with one tree is the Court of the Fountain at the top of Minas Tirith
- ricardobayes 3mo agoWhat's up with the knee-jerk hate on EU lately?
- kleiba2 3mo agoNot the EU, just the Commission.
- amarant 3mo agoThe US is going to shit, and the Americans want to pretend everywhere is equally bad and it's not just them.. It is, of course, just them.
- ars 3mo agoThousands of people died in the EU over this heat, and you think it's American that isn't doing well? "more than 1300 excess deaths have been recorded since 21 June linked to the extreme heat in Europe" "There were approximately 489,000 heat-related deaths annually between 2000 and 2019, according to modeled estimates." https://wmo.int/media/news/record-breaking-heat-spreads-through-europe https://wmo.int/media/news/record-breaking-heat-spreads-thro...
- tavavex 3mo agoWhat? Did the EU cause the heat wave? This thread is clearly about politics, and the parent claims that Americans complain about the EU and its politics because their own have gone completely off the rails. Disparaging the EU over a crazy heat wave is like criticizing a country because it has had a major natural disaster recently.
- port11 3mo agoOh, we definitely hate them A LOT in Belgium, for what they did to the historic district. The revamped EU district is an ugly, inefficient, traffic-heavy abomination. It’s crazy that we destroyed all the Art Deco and Art Nouveau townhouses to make space for the EU’s steel-and-glass nonsense.