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Originally Posted by Link N. Parker
But here's the thing...I actually like the design. These types of aesthetics are totally subjective, and are in the eye of the beholder. The Rickett's could totally redesign it again, and there would be someone who wouldn't like it.
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Think about design in different terms. Think about a polling of the nation's top architecture critics, or of Pritzker Prize winners - or, not even of Pritzker Prize winners, that's a little too rarified - AIA Honor Award winners. What would such a poll (a poll of true subject/discipline experts, of overwhelmingly industry consensus high taste level) say? It would be major thumbs down. Just like the movie review aggregator RottenTomatoes. Anybody can have an opinion, and is entitled to one, and dissenting expert opinions can certainly be informative and enlightening at times. However, when you've directed a film - let's call it a family-friendly romantic comedy, perhaps one set in suburban Cleveland, starring Kate Hudson and Hugh Grant - that some people - many people - seem to like, because it makes them feel somewhat comfortable, it seems relatable, it makes them occassionally laugh - uneasily through their teeth, the kind that comes without even really smiling at all.......the film contains every tired cliche in the book, is chock-full of cheesy lines, the writing and acting are terrible and the convaluted plot makes no sense whatsoever......it certainly doesn't challenge the audience's perspectives, or tax their minds, or for that matter really even make them think at all, and the film pulls down decent numbers at the box office, making a quite tidy profit - but that film receives a 17% (my guess at where these designs would fall in a similar type of site, but for architecture) on RottenTomatoes, what you've actually mostly done is offer up a piece of trash (despite the fact that some/many people seem to like it and was a reasonable financial success). And, in effect, that's also what VOA has done here. They've offered us up a lot of trash here....
No offense to your taste level, but everybody can evolve and improve in some way, no?
Alas, architecture is best not approached in a 'it's all subjective, everyone is different in what they like and dislike' sort of way.....it's really just lazy.....