Ramako
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What's so completely different about a box with bits stuck on it so it doesn't look like a box?
To me, there isn't much of a difference. For some, they're clearly worlds apart.
What's so completely different about a box with bits stuck on it so it doesn't look like a box?
To me, there isn't much of a difference. For some, they're clearly worlds apart.
Indeed - listening to the false "confining and stunting" dichotomy you'd think HP had reinvented the wheel here - that slapping a few curves on a box is somehow breaking out of one.
Their pocketbooks, more likely. Though the pretense involved in pretending a box isn't a box and gussying it up to look like something "better" is considerable.
Not that I have any stake this particular debate - but to equate all boxes (and fat) as equal in quality and execution is a fallacy. No one in the right mind would equate Big Mac to Angus Beef to Kobe Beef, pretentiousnes or otherwise.
This debate is getting nowhere - and becoming distracting.
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I happen to like this "dressed up" box - so no I don't subscribe to the lemmings label - that said, I do believe that one can objectively distinguish qualities of design in most cases. Foam gargoyles slapped on a tower as a second thought is one thing; high quality cast gargoyles that is integrated into building design from day one is another.
Anyways, I think this is an ultimately fruitless debate.
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What's so completely different about a box with bits stuck on it so it doesn't look like a box?
Shocker: 'bits stuck on'? That dismissal is a bit much: it suggests an assortment of randomly jutting balconies (which if done right can look quite good actually) as opposed to what we are getting here. One Bloor is sculpted a little more floridly than you usually approve of, but The Clewes has been playing with curves and wonky angles as of late too, and we haven't heard too much carping about that from you.42