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Originally Posted by summersm343
Guys. Shut up.
Everyone is allowed to have an opinion. And if someone thinks the design pays homage to the NBC Chicago Tower, Industrial Factories and smokestacks or a fucking middle finger, who are we to tell them their wrong?
It's really not that big of a deal. Stupidest argument ever.
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To me this is not an argument. It's actually an interesting topic. Discussions of most topics, architecture included, are filled with unquestioned assumptions about what means something or has relevance. But when you sit down and think it through, most of these preconceptions are both baseless and pointless. It's an interesting fact of life and it's worthwhile to point it out when you see it, seems to me.
But there's no argument here for me. If someone wants to see Rockefeller Center in the CITC, no problem. That doesn't mean it was intended, or if intended, an idea with value. As you say, people can make their observations, and there is no harm in making a counter observation. It's easy enough to skip over the stuff that doesn't interest you. It's a discussion board, that's what they're for.
Beats the endlessly repeated "well, well, well, she's moving along nicely" restatements of the obvious contained in every third or fourth post.
Another peeve of mine along the lines above: comments about whether a building "balances out the skyline" at a particular location . . . as if buildings get built because of their effect on some made-up notion of an artistic composition in a skyline.
How many times have we read something like "I'd have liked this building better if they had build it on the lot two blocks further east, where it will better balance out the skyline . . . "
Comments like that are about as meaningless a waste of space as there is; challenges to their pointlessness bring up far more interesting topics by comparison.
I mean, bring it on, bring on the comments like that, but expect some feedback. It's discussion.
You think this thread is full of supidity? Check out the Chicago Spire thread. 6 years worth of, pointless, baseless speculation about a thoroughly idiotic completely dead project. Our recent silly discussion here is like a Nobel roundtable debate by comparison.
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