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Originally Posted by Yankee
Correct! Thanks. The whole debate over the old federal building here has been just that - a different in taste.
But I shouldn't have called it abominable, sorry about that.
I'm glad the thread is back on topic.
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OK, so let's balance the two different 'tastes' presented:
Taste 1:
-The old Federal Building was pedestrian unfriendly
-The old Federal Building was inefficiently organized
-The old Federal Building featured dated and clumsy architectural styles that clashed with the city it was meant to serve
-The old Federal Building required massive amounts of capital to maintain
-The new Federal Buildings are some of the most important buildings in architectural history
-The new Federal Buildings work in engaging the public and opening a block of inner Chicago to light and air
-The new Federal Buildings' plaza offered a canvas for one of the most celebrated sculptors in history to created a sculpture recognized and celebrated throughout Chicago
-The new Federal Building creates beauty through simplicity and resolution of programmatic, structural, urban and public aspects as well as presenting compelling notions about use of space relative to the concepts of Modernism in Chicago and how it should react with a complex designed for the Federal Government
Taste 2:
The old Federal Building was pretty!
The new one is ugly!
Also Alexander Calder's sculpture is dumb!