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Originally Posted by CGII
The Elysian is a total piece of excrement not because it is applying a style to a place where it 'shouldn't be' but because it is a skimpy cop out replication of that style. The materials are bad, the proportions are bad, the details are bad (the thing has friggin balconies)...nothing matches up with the style it is supposed to follow. If it were done in the right materials, with the right massing and the right details, it could be a beautiful building (architecturally regressive, but beautiful nonetheless).
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the elysian could be clad in italian marble and gold and it'd still be a piece of trash. it could be a historically accurate to ugly french architecture and it's still be a piece of trash. the only thing that could ever make this building look nice is if it were stripped of its design entirely and redesigned in the spirt of modern architecture in
chicago today.
it's not a question of the materials or the proportions or the street interaction or anything like that... the problem here and so often with architecture lately is the fact that it's a form of delineative architecture! architectural design should reflect what is happening right now, and should be relevant only to right here. this isn't greece, france, england, italy, or wherever. it should derive NOTHING, especially not from fucking europe; we shouldn't adopt there ugly 'styles'. god, it seems like everyone on this forum is either crazy or missing the point...
jesus
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