That's like giving the ol' building the tranny treatment, really. Make it look like something it's not. Call it "Trans-Modern" architecture or something.
This December 24 blunder leaves me speechless . What a gosh darn atrocity for the unfortunate people of that town to have to endure. I fear for humanity, not only did someone have to conceive this, but a committee had to approve it. What were they thinking?
I can understand the need for absolute bare-bones construction. Poor people need shelter too. But this church has been deliberately defecated on, and I think it must have been considerably more expensive than building a block of HUD housing.
Flat roof nightmare reminds me of the horrible jibber-jabber of a building known as the Wexner Center for the Arts committed by Peter Eisenman— leaky from nearly day one and a $10M renovation bill after only 12 years following its misbegotten spawn onto the OSU campus
I highly recommend binge reading from the beginning. I used to look at these when I needed a hearty laugh. This is an amazing archive, thank you, JHK!! Your Geography books are on my trapped on a desert island top 10 list. I even used the Home From Nowhere prologue to teach reading comprehension in a GED class - your prose is truly ineffable. One of my students in his fifties, who had failed it twice previously, passed after this exercise. I will never forget his light bulb moment as we assiduously traversed the sentences one by one. I missed the final book in the series though, so it's on my to-order list now!
Thank you for showing us some of the ugliest buildings (and sculptures) that none of us have ever seen. It is an abomination what they did to the church. Nice touch of bricking up the beautiful gothic windows. Avarice is an ugly building. I actually was not offended by the one in Dubai. It seems to fit the city.
I am loathe to use the hackneyed word/phrase "gobsmacked," but I fail to find another one that is really apropos this... monstrosity, this abomination, this plague of architectural mismatches and... I can't think of any more descriptive terms. I fear my brain has been damaged merely by laying eyes on it. Gaaaagh!
Aaah “modernity” … it’s almost like someone with a deep loathing for humanity is deliberately turning everything in modern society into a mock-humiliation ritual … “look upon my works and despair” never more apt in this instance
If there is such a thing as the worst of the worst, this is it. Presumably it was designed by a government committee composed of people who live in a 1960's mobile home park? It has similar visual appeal.
That's like giving the ol' building the tranny treatment, really. Make it look like something it's not. Call it "Trans-Modern" architecture or something.
Brilliant!
"Trans-Modern" coined by substack user, The Crimson Ghost, on Wed 11 December 2024.
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This December 24 blunder leaves me speechless . What a gosh darn atrocity for the unfortunate people of that town to have to endure. I fear for humanity, not only did someone have to conceive this, but a committee had to approve it. What were they thinking?
I can understand the need for absolute bare-bones construction. Poor people need shelter too. But this church has been deliberately defecated on, and I think it must have been considerably more expensive than building a block of HUD housing.
And as JWK states, the "flat roof", what genius in Massachusetts thought that one up? Certainly not someone who lives there. Snow anyone?
Flat roof nightmare reminds me of the horrible jibber-jabber of a building known as the Wexner Center for the Arts committed by Peter Eisenman— leaky from nearly day one and a $10M renovation bill after only 12 years following its misbegotten spawn onto the OSU campus
Wexner, as in Les? The enabler for Jeffery Epstein?
I'd like to say more about this collection of folks, but I'd probably get banned for it.
Winter rooftop igloo rentals anyone?
Wonderful. Can't wait to wander through the catalog of eyesores.
I highly recommend binge reading from the beginning. I used to look at these when I needed a hearty laugh. This is an amazing archive, thank you, JHK!! Your Geography books are on my trapped on a desert island top 10 list. I even used the Home From Nowhere prologue to teach reading comprehension in a GED class - your prose is truly ineffable. One of my students in his fifties, who had failed it twice previously, passed after this exercise. I will never forget his light bulb moment as we assiduously traversed the sentences one by one. I missed the final book in the series though, so it's on my to-order list now!
its almost like they're trying for monstrosity.
They actually make want to cry.
Church-in-a-box. Craptastic! 😵💫
Thank you for showing us some of the ugliest buildings (and sculptures) that none of us have ever seen. It is an abomination what they did to the church. Nice touch of bricking up the beautiful gothic windows. Avarice is an ugly building. I actually was not offended by the one in Dubai. It seems to fit the city.
Communists do not see beauty.
Kinda like going to Wally World and people observing.
You've got it all wrong. It's the deconstructionist intersectionality mashup of old and in the way with eclectic postmodernism.
I am loathe to use the hackneyed word/phrase "gobsmacked," but I fail to find another one that is really apropos this... monstrosity, this abomination, this plague of architectural mismatches and... I can't think of any more descriptive terms. I fear my brain has been damaged merely by laying eyes on it. Gaaaagh!
Aaah “modernity” … it’s almost like someone with a deep loathing for humanity is deliberately turning everything in modern society into a mock-humiliation ritual … “look upon my works and despair” never more apt in this instance
It's a metaphor for the replacement of meaning by money.
If there is such a thing as the worst of the worst, this is it. Presumably it was designed by a government committee composed of people who live in a 1960's mobile home park? It has similar visual appeal.