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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Premium mediocre is just one example of the resultant aesthetic, and decorated sheds in architecture terms are just one piece of the vocabulary. Nowhere is this clearer than in little towns created specifically to serve cruise ships and operated by cruise lines.
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Replying to @kneelingbus
nope... I don't really read architecture stuff, I steal the ideas second hand from people like you :D
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Happy to be of assistance. You might get something out of it, it's like 15 pages long and pretty funny (connects to premium mediocre): https://www.johnstuartarchitecture.com/Spring_2009_Video_Readings_files/Koolhaas%20Junkspace.pdf …
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Ah 15 pages I can do, downloaded!
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