Why modern architecture is making us sick

[JGeropoulas]

NY City: a perfect example of "sickening" architecture that generates anxiety under the guise of "creativity".

NY City: a perfect example of ghastly ugliness, as if designed to appear as damaged by missile strikes.

 

[heinrich]

is the building in the first picture real? or is it an ai design? it is frightening that it fully relys on structural computations.

 

[JGeropoulas]

is the building in the first picture real? or is it an ai design? it is frightening that it fully relys on structural computations.

Both of these buildings are included in this list. Ironically, the building you're questioning is named "Affirmation Tower". List: Skyscrapers Under Construction or Planned in New York – The Tower Info

 

[Vulcan59]

This is the Fairmount Hotel in Doha. Pretty sure you will feel sick staying there for any length of time.

 

[JGeropoulas]

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This is the Fairmount Hotel in Doha. Pretty sure you will feel sick staying there for any length of time.

I'm assuming the "all seeing eye" is photo-shopped and not some elaborate pyrotechnics or laser show, right?

 

[Voyageur]

Belgium, Politico had this to say:



with many examples of the bad and ugly.

Eye of the beholder and all, my vote for the bad/ugly goes to NATO HQ:

Perhaps in 4D it might provide some better meaning, however in 3D its like some type of front end combine mower, mowing the grass, and NATO is not opposed to mowing.

 

[heinrich]

Both of these buildings are included in this list. Ironically, the building you're questioning is named "Affirmation Tower". List: Skyscrapers Under Construction or Planned in New York – The Tower Info

thank you. i mailed it to my son who is architekt in hk

 

[iamthatis]

This new innovation in British architecture is sure to take the West by storm as the great decline continues. Truly amazing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761816822863597726

 

[Ina]

This new innovation in British architecture is sure to take the West by storm as the great decline continues. Truly amazing.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1761816822863597726

I thought you were going to mention the return to classical architecture combined with local cultural heritage.

Sweden

France

UK

Guatemala

There might be more examples.

 

[Ellipse]

Interesting comparison:

 

[JGeropoulas]

Great video: Ugliness Is A Disease: How Ugly Architecture & Environments Harm Us

 

[clerck de bonk]

Interesting comparison:

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Finishing the vatican axle/perspective was facilitated by Mussolini. They are nice but tyrants really seem to have a thing for Grandiose Perspectives and axial symmetry in general.

 

[Ellipse]

Finishing the vatican axle/perspective was facilitated by Mussolini. They are nice but tyrants really seem to have a thing for Grandiose Perspectives and axial symmetry in general.

So would be interesting to know which kind of "democracy" was ruling Teotihuacan at the time. Managed by 4D STS influence? And we can wonder if the central place had an obelisk similar to the Vatican one at the time.

 

[clerck de bonk]

So would be interesting to know which kind of "democracy" was ruling Teotihuacan at the time. Managed by 4D STS influence? And we can wonder if the central place had an obelisk similar to the Vatican one at the time.

Maybe not an obelisk but water in the axial basins? Not my theory but it seems plausible to me.

 

[Aliana]

There may be some encouraging news on the horizon, as a number of architects and professors are finally pushing back against the ugly modern paradigm. I found this YouTube channel recently and watched a number of videos where the creator discusses the things we have been discussing on this thread - why we are hard wired to enjoy and need beauty and why these urban monstrosities, not only cause stress but people consistently abandon the areas where they are located in favor of more human environments.

There are a number of architecture schools that have now changed their curriculum, so that students are required to learn skills that had been abandoned in the push towards modernism. They learn about classical designs and the importance of beauty! So - there is hope!