Whenever I see a modern built environment that looks like "fake" culture/personality facade on what's obviously a globalized-industrial-process output pattern, I do a perspective shift to "this would be impressive inside a starship"
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nope... I don't really read architecture stuff, I steal the ideas second hand from people like you :D
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I think you’d enjoy Anthony Bourdain’s essay on Las Vegas
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It wasn't easily found via google. Do you have a link?
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Also, more specialisation -> more layers of abstraction -> visible surface has less & less to do w/ underlying implementation -> 'hacking' is increasingly unviable. Compare ease of tinkering w/ classic vs modern car, or salvaging a piece of wood vs wood veneer over chipboard.
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