Blade Runner City

[mbarrick]

Scotia Bank Tower, TD Tower, reflection of the Vancouver Building clock tower, and Eaton's Sears.

Comments

[urban-creature.livejournal.com]

this is by far one of my favorite snap shots of yours. Very futuristic!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Funny thing about that is this is all 1970's architecture.

Re:

[urban-creature.livejournal.com]

well then futuristic in the "Star Wars" a la 1970s sort of way!

Modernism

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

That's the neat thing about this. The 1970 was the tail end of Modernism and devotion to the concept of "form follows function", uniform design, and a desire to do something genuinely new. Anything built later starts bearing the decadent stamp of "post-modernism" where design elements would be overtly borrowed (or "appropriated" in art-speak) from the past in a way that makes no attempt to (re)present what's been taken as something new. So now you get buildings that are awkward mish-mashes of "quotes" from other design aesthetics rather than anything consitent.

"Mediocre artists borrow. Great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso.