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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Most are dogmatically anti-classical when it comes to designing new buildings.
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Which is probably why any new building that attempts to look "classical" that is constructed in the United States these days looks like complete shit. They are all a bunch of architects who are trained how to build a modern interior who are trying to still make the exterior look all "Ye Olde Haus". So what they end up doing is designing a super efficient and modern interior layout and then just tacking sloped roofs and finials and shit to the outside to make it look olde. That tends to look like complete shit. Its just like the Pomo office block. You can't just take a giant 3D rectangle and add a pointy roof and actually pass it off as "classical", it just doesn't work, the massing would be entirely different, but the rectangular floor plate is sacred to the developer and the tenant, so the architect adds stupid things to try to make it look old.