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Originally Posted by _Citizen_Dane_
To me anyways thats kind of where the problem starts. They've taken traditional architectural elements like quoins, pilasters, and capitals, and catroonized them down into their most ugly basic components, molded them out of styrofoam, and glued them onto a box with no rhyme or reason. Now I'd love to see more "nod[s] to previous styles" but I think it's got to be handled really carefully or else you end up Disneyfied versions of architecture, like this.
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I don't disagree, but taken in context for what it is - a glorified strip mall - I don't think it comes across as being all that bad, Disneyfied or not. It's not trying to be authentic, just different, and at least somewhat interesting.
Now, if this was placed in the middle of an historic district and given the job of blending in with surrounding heritage structures, then in my book it would be a huge fail.