• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Dunno, think their version of Edinburgh Castle is a Brutalist masterpiece.

    I’d be interested to know what their criteria is for “non-boring” buildings and whether that relates to humanist approaches that look at form and function… Or if they are into some of that postmodern nonsense that makes buildings look like other things (its near the coast it should look like it has sails!) Or mock Tudor.

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      7 months ago

      Or if they are into some of that postmodern nonsense

      The exact opposite. They call “boring” buildings as anything related to the “modern/post-modern” architecture, where everything is made of glass and steel, or just slabs of concrete that have no ornament whatsoever, or that is so detached from the local where it has been built that makes it impossible to know if the building is in Shaghai, Nairobi or Mexico City.

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        7 months ago

        Modernist architecture and post-modern architecture are almost polar opposites. They are not the same thing.

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          7 months ago

          Here’s the Piazza d’Italia. An example of post-modern architecture. You’ll notice it doesn’t lack ornament.

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            7 months ago

            Yet, by the photo I’d certainly take it as an example of “post-modern” design. No place for people, not inviting. It seems like something attempting to impress outsider people passing by, not something made for people to stay and belong.