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Originally Posted by STR
Look through the thread. With the exception of Transamerica and the Renaissance Center, no building in this thread is very old. Once this period of Neo-Modernism (or whatever the hell you want to call it) is over, how many of these pieces will remain futuristic and timeless as the two older buildings cited above? How many will become dated period pieces?
I firmly belive than deconstructivism will date itself very soon. It just isn't that shocking anymore, and with that gone, its reason for existance goes away as well. Most deconstructivists are media whores, which will only quicken the abandonment of the style.
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Futuristic itself is a relative and thus constantly changing term. When we say something looks futuristic, we're comparing it to what we have seen up to now. Of course if we were to wait 10 or 20 or 50 years and compare it again, it would look either ahead of its time but still contemporary or old-fashioned, or it would look dated. Almost nothing would continue to look futuristic, and even if it did for a while, it would eventually give way to one of the other two. Nothing can stay futuristic forever.