Image by: Nuno Pinheiro Following posts on specific work being done on Oxygen, this post is going to try to go beyond the manifest work and look at the bigger picture driving it. The motivation for…
i understand where you’re going but that it’s because we’re fucked up by capital, but once you get past that… i don’t see china having a lack of beautiful architecture that blends modernity with traditional style and everything in between. sure, if the us decides to build housing for the people, do whatever you can to make that possible, but it’s not like we only need to do that.
Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is “copy paste skyscrapers everywhere.” They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still “boring” and “homogeneous” and “designed to kill individualism” according to Western internet geniuses.
Evidently they’ve never visited one of those suburban subdivisions in their own country where all of the houses are built to the same blueprint. Same effect, slightly different scale.
i understand where you’re going but that it’s because we’re fucked up by capital, but once you get past that… i don’t see china having a lack of beautiful architecture that blends modernity with traditional style and everything in between. sure, if the us decides to build housing for the people, do whatever you can to make that possible, but it’s not like we only need to do that.
Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is “copy paste skyscrapers everywhere.” They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still “boring” and “homogeneous” and “designed to kill individualism” according to Western internet geniuses.
Evidently they’ve never visited one of those suburban subdivisions in their own country where all of the houses are built to the same blueprint. Same effect, slightly different scale.
Also, Chinese cities don’t give a shit if you decorate the outside of your unit. HOAs do.