I hate bare concrete walls on monolithic buildings with tiny window slits that look as through they were designed to fend off a barbarian siege.
I hate rectangular glass skyscrapers with no curves or breaks. They are bird killers, just as much as wind turbines.
I hate buildings that have windows that don't open.
I hate buildings that try to intimidate the human beings who enter them. You know the kind I mean, those government buildings that are designed to make you feel small and unimportant.
I hate buildings with exposed pipes, electrical conduits, air conditioning ducts, wires.
I hate buildings that don't use any wood. Wood is a human material -- concrete and steel are not.
I hate buildings that show off, like the twisting skyscraper, or that giant lipstick in London.
I hate buildings that are all glass. I don't want to live in a fishbowl.
Pretty much every major building designed after 1940 is crap.
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