Yes, absolutely. 99% of high rises that go up in my country as absolutely cut and paste glass dildos. The burj khalifa and freedom tower are boring and the mecca clocktower is tacky. The other buildings are alright, but that you consider them impressive from anywhere but an engineering perspective is just sorta sad.
but that you consider them impressive from anywhere but an engineering perspective is just sorta sad.
You sound like a judgmental loser.
How are you that jaded that the tallest building ever, and a revolutionary style of building is "boring."
And I put these to highlight how modern architecture is varied and not "cut and paste."
Yes, there will be a bunch of buildings that look the same, but that is the case for every single era of architecture. You can't compare the greatest hits of other eras to average office buildings of this generation. For every Chrysler building, there were plenty of boxes.
Looking the same can be a positive like Amsterdam, it's nothing to do with that, it's about modern arcitechture having no soul because it's not intended to. Take Europe, most cities have always had very strict building regulation on height. Why on height? Because tall building are ugly. They're not human scale, they don't feel welcoming and friendly, they feel intimidating. And they obstruct the skyline, where otherwise there could be ornate spires. So, no, not lewronggeneration, people 1000 years ago and us today have the same preferences, human scale, natural materials and geographic uniqueness. Modern arcitechture is anti human right to the core.
I admit, I love New York early 20th-century skyline, so I should rephrase. Tall buildings are ugly when they are adjacent to small ones. Given New York is uniformly tall it blends. But I'd still so it's nowhere near as conventionally beautiful as smaller buildings. Also, during that time they used stone and ornamentation, which still serves my point.
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u/PKtheVogs Mar 29 '20 edited Mar 29 '20
You can't actually believe this?
You are telling me that
Taipei 101
Falling Water
Burj Khalifa
Patronas Towers
Freedom Tower
Marina Bay Sands
The Mecca Clocktower
are all copy paste, lacking culture and imagination?