You just described exactly why I left architecture after getting my degree. (BTW you should add the Florence Palazzo di Giustizia to your list - the only modern building in the city. It looks like a brown pile of garbage and cooks people like an oven in the lobby during the summer). So much masturbatory art, architecture and “design”. No humanity or purpose.
Scottish Parliament Building = Half-Life's Black Mesa HQ
China Central TV Headquarters = another weird building in Death Stranding
Boston City Hall = CONTROL's Federal Bureau of Control HQ*
Fun to play. Not so fun to experience in the real world.
*If you are even a casual gamer, you must play CONTROL. Delight after delight, done right. It's the exception proving the rule that delight in UX design is "a nearly liquid mass of loathsome — of detestable putrescence". (credit to Poe)
You could have chosen worse examples. Apart from that your take lacks nuance, and seems to base its reality from popular discussion online/in-media, and you seem to not understand what It means to "like" architecture ("what" do you like, "how" do you like, do you like perceiving it, living in it, working in it? ect.) and honestly I think you are projecting your rage onto normie starcitect architecture as the vessel, or signifier, of what you think is wrong with the world, which is inequality. I don't particularly like these buildings (except Boston city hall) but there's a reason you're talking about them and not (Insert random contemporary building), and that is because they achieved, in some way or form, their Iconic status, which is a big reason why these designs get chosen (!To get noticed!). Architecture is a lot more than how it might appear on pictures, more than I care to explain to you. And whilst I agree with you that starcitects are cringe as hell your obliviousness in how Phenomena like the Iphone emerge saddens me, and you do realize that culture is an circle-jerk, and very few people at the top have any idea of what they are doing, but that is kinda the whole thing... anyways. have a nice day
You just described exactly why I left architecture after getting my degree. (BTW you should add the Florence Palazzo di Giustizia to your list - the only modern building in the city. It looks like a brown pile of garbage and cooks people like an oven in the lobby during the summer). So much masturbatory art, architecture and “design”. No humanity or purpose.
Scottish Parliament Building = Half-Life's Black Mesa HQ
China Central TV Headquarters = another weird building in Death Stranding
Boston City Hall = CONTROL's Federal Bureau of Control HQ*
Fun to play. Not so fun to experience in the real world.
*If you are even a casual gamer, you must play CONTROL. Delight after delight, done right. It's the exception proving the rule that delight in UX design is "a nearly liquid mass of loathsome — of detestable putrescence". (credit to Poe)
You could have chosen worse examples. Apart from that your take lacks nuance, and seems to base its reality from popular discussion online/in-media, and you seem to not understand what It means to "like" architecture ("what" do you like, "how" do you like, do you like perceiving it, living in it, working in it? ect.) and honestly I think you are projecting your rage onto normie starcitect architecture as the vessel, or signifier, of what you think is wrong with the world, which is inequality. I don't particularly like these buildings (except Boston city hall) but there's a reason you're talking about them and not (Insert random contemporary building), and that is because they achieved, in some way or form, their Iconic status, which is a big reason why these designs get chosen (!To get noticed!). Architecture is a lot more than how it might appear on pictures, more than I care to explain to you. And whilst I agree with you that starcitects are cringe as hell your obliviousness in how Phenomena like the Iphone emerge saddens me, and you do realize that culture is an circle-jerk, and very few people at the top have any idea of what they are doing, but that is kinda the whole thing... anyways. have a nice day