Re:The mid in fake midcentury modern
by Oxidation on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:34PM
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Europe has been building modernist and post-modernist monstrosities gleefully for 80 years.
Everything is either an aggressively ugly concrete bunker[1], a generic cubish cement or brick and glass mishmash[2] or a glass and steel monolith, maybe with extra facets[3].
You just have to look at what the old Imperial Institute[4] was replaced with[5] and the charmless glass box they plugged onto it later[6].
Nearly every building that has been modified this century has gotten unashamedly uglier. Even cathedrals grow tumors.
Everything is either an aggressively ugly concrete bunker[1], a generic cubish cement or brick and glass mishmash[2] or a glass and steel monolith, maybe with extra facets[3].
You just have to look at what the old Imperial Institute[4] was replaced with[5] and the charmless glass box they plugged onto it later[6].
Nearly every building that has been modified this century has gotten unashamedly uglier. Even cathedrals grow tumors.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hove_Town_Hall
[2]: basically any mid rise residential which can be like this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Low-rise_flats,_Turv... to more recent variations on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Low_Rise_Apartme...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1903-11-04_front_Imp...
[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherfield_Building,_...
[6] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imperial_College_Lon...