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Originally Posted by JMKeynes
I hope that this eyesore isn't built.
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Pfft, your taste in architecture is subjective. It doesn't matter that these buildings are essentially public art since architecture is an art form and everyone has to look at these buildings. People the world over prefer either pre-war architecture or futuristic, sleek designs instead of boxes, but I can afford to ignore that fact because, unlike you, I'm not going against the invisible and benevolent hand of the free market. *Winners* are going to make this building happen because they get stuff done!
I'm going to pretend that having standards for design would cause business to flee, even though there are over 200 corporate HQ here, even though our stock exchange is the largest (by measure of market capitalization) in the world several times over, and even though this is the marketing, media, and cultural capital of the world.
I'm also going to make a false dichotomy and proclaim that what you want would somehow turn the city into a museum. Museums are ugly, by the way, unless they house the kind of nightmarish abstract art that my corporate masters put in their plazas and lobbies.
These kind of monstrous, punishing designs will continue to win out over the sleeker, more forward-thinking proposals that developers tease us with because they are important people. Your opinion doesn't matter, so ha!
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