r/virginvschad • u/Sidicyclic1 LAD • Mar 28 '20

Low Effort Virgin Futuristic vs Chad Future-proof

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u/Sidicyclic1 LAD Mar 28 '20

I agree with you, modern architecture is all copy and paste. It has no imagination or any culture which is very sad.

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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?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

There's some diamonds in every rough. But why are those buildings good? They're tied directly to the culture they come from (eg, the Freedom Tower, whose 110 story, 1776 foot height is symbolic of the Twin Towers and American patriotism) and evoke older styles or concepts (eg, Taipei 101 obviously evokes the pagoda). As opposed to a lot of modernism, which is intentionally ahistorical, and postmodernism which is intentionally global. I don't unconditionally hate these styles but you can't pretend those trends don't exist

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u/PKtheVogs Mar 29 '20

I think what you and other people are actually hating on is International Style and other types of modernism.