In a
previous post I provided a thought experiment relating to Hong Kong and Singapore. Without googling it, you probably wouldn’t know the answer to my question.
Take a look at the following four cities.
Without noticeable landmarks, you probably wouldn’t know which city is which.
They’re all cold, grey, jagged concrete protrusions on the landscape, offering neither a soul nor a personality to their respective nations.
Well, they can’t.
Their populations are too massively dense.
Zoom in a little further and you’ll find millions of ant-like people on antidepressants shuffling around, constant noise and pollution, high suicide rates and alcoholism, and commercialism that is common across all four, resulting in none being unique.
It’s demoralising.
In
Paris, the Tour
Montparnasse looks like it’s in the wrong place. It reminds me of the opening scene from
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Why would architects do this?
Meanwhile, in California, the Department Of Transportation is housed in the following brutal bastion of blandness.
It looks incomplete (which, I suppose, is deliberate), but it also looks creepy. Or like a Transformer (which, I suppose, could also be deliberate).
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