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Old Posted Sep 2, 2011, 2:11 AM
Rizzo Rizzo is offline
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Originally Posted by LMich View Post
I don't know if the firm is just blowing smoke, but if it's true, why not? We might not pay for design aesthetics in this country, anymore, but we're not the entire world, either. You know, there are public sectors in this world that still design both things that actually work while simultaneously designing them to look nice/interesting, too. Hell, it's not even just outside the US, either. My little city's public utility is currently constructing a new natural gas power plant that looks like this...


Lansing Area Capital Gains

...when they absolutely could have easily designed something more generic and unadorned. I wish we'd stop applying such discouraging and defeatist local framing to anything that dares to look at good as it actually works.
That brick better be made of fly-ash my friend
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