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Originally Posted by rlw777
If you are responding to a design because it reminds you of something awful you have no better discernment than those folks who love the design because it reminds them of a classic.
Stern is not Lagrange. Lagrange is far less subtle and far more obnoxious in his references to various clashing nostalgic styles. I think Stern has done a good job on this one it doesn't have the mess of second empire meets beaux arts meets art deco or whatever. Everything is subtle enough here that I think it works alright. Execution is a different matter though. From what I have seen of his 30 park place tower I don't have high expectations for the precast
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Blah blah blah... A. M. Stern is a garbage architect with a garbage firm that does garbage work. There is absolutely no justifying this kind of antiquated approach to design in 20fucking16! This kind of detestably bourgeois, french provincial garbage may appeal to the über rich in places like Dallas or in Manhattan because those people tend to be notoriously tasteless, but it should have zero place in Chicago. And what makes it all that much worse, it's not even done with fine materials. I have no problem comparing Stern with Lagrange; both are enemies of modern design and only serve to perpetuate the insidious degeneration of architecture in this town, something that was once a vaunted point of pride... but nowadays, eh, not at all... because why should architecture matter anymore when you're building solely to house Joe-Blow-Schaumburg?