Looks more like a Tractor Supply to me. I like Tractor Supply.
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I mean if you just look at the architecture of buildings now — it’s postmodernism — it’s ugly. They just built the new Globe Life park here for the Rangers, and it literally looks like a Costco. It’s a billion dollar Costco. I mean, there’s nothing ornate about it, nothing pretty
Uhm, isn’t that pretty much the definition of modernism, rather than postmodernism? It’s almost like this “expert” has no idea what he’s talking about
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… oh you and your “knowledge” and “facts” 
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video of the stadium.is included. I’m not inclined to condemn it, and if it works well aa a baseball stadium, so be it,
What irks me is that classical architecture is not really about the columns, or the statuary,. It’s first and foremost about the proportions,.
What Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump seem to want are the elements of “roman” architecture, but not necessarily the proportions of classical architecture. And that kind of thinking is postmoderniist.
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The really funny thing is that those marble columns and structures were painted, and probably none of them were white.
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Indeed.
What I’d seen previously suggested that those supposedly austere classical temples probably attained a near-Trumpian level of tackiness in their heyday, painted in garish reds and blues. It looks as if more recent reconstructions suggest a subtler and more varied palette (although red and blue is still prominent), but certainly nothing like the now-popular image of unblemished white marble.
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I like to imagine that the Roman Empire fell because they ran out of shocking pink and lime green paint for their columns.
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The modern American fascist movement has incorporated a lot of elements of the “White City” of the 1893 World’s Fair. Not only is the design aesthetic unpainted white neoclassical, but the seemingly timeless structures are superficially attractive facades built on the cheap out of plaster and plywood. De facto discrimination of the non-white is also very much in effect at this celebration of robber baron wealth. And, by the way, there’s at least one serial killer wandering about.
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Did Holmes wander around? I thought he waited for his unfortunate victims to come to him. The lazy, evil fucker.
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I recall reading that he visited the fair at least once, though perhaps not to hunt for victims. And the effort he put into his murder castle would not be seen as lazy by champions of individual industry had it been applied to a meatpacking plant.
I really think it’s only a matter of time before a MAGAt/Qnut leader is exposed as an actual serial killer. We’ve already seen more than a few embezzlers, thieves, spousal abusers, sex pests, and paedophiles emerge from their ranks, so it’s not outside of the realm of possibility.
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Not really. Out of town malls aren’t Modernist architecture. They are industrial design. When the idiot Tom Wolfe blamed le Corbusier for American malls he was way off: blame cars and capitalism instead because it is they that dictated the design, not le Corbu. He couldn’t blame cars and capitalism though so it was European elitists. He was a practice run for how you get people like Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz.
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I specifically meant that lack of ornamentation is a defining element of modernism in architecture. And I don’t think I agree that Le Corbusier (or Gropius, for that matter) are without blame. The car and capitalism gave mall architects their goals, but the modernists gave them the drab design language (Formensprache is a much better word) they worked with. Without these pioneers later architects wouldn’t have gotten away with soulless boxes.
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Corb in particular gave all kinds of bad actors – servants of car and corporate culture – cover to produce cheap and unpleasant architecture such as the strip malls, even if that wasn’t his intent.* American mid-century public housing projects are the most notorious examples, although to be fair the sponsors completely and perhaps deliberately misapplied some of his concepts.
[* Corb’s designs do indicate someone who didn’t give much thought to how actual humans live, but he wasn’t alone amongst celebrity architects in that.]
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There is no other form of art as misanthropic as modern high-concept architecture. The soulless “get it done cheap” junk architecture, as evidenced by those strip malls, or all the incoherent sprawling McMansions, is ugly as fuck, too, but it lacks the aggressive contempt of and active hostility towards the average person.
Anyway, Tucker Carlson is a fascism-enabling know-nothing meathead, and that stadium is gratuitously ugly.
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Fun fact-the perpetrators of minimalist architecture tended to live in ornate pre-war buildings.
The notion that the only good buildings are those with old timey ornamental doodads glued to them is absurd. We don’t want cars or appliances with fake columns or fiddly brass fittings on them. Why should a 21st century building have them? There are many fine examples of so-called modern design.
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The great irony of architecture is that there are very, very few buildings that are both great architectural accomplishments and well-received throughout their tenure.
Listening to 99% Invisible, it’s almost always a case that any given icon has a letter writing campaign to tear it down.
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Rather disappointed that Tucker didn’t do the obvious and go on to praise some classically inspired mid-1930s buildings in Nuremberg.
Still if Tucker wants some modern totalitarian-friendly architecture, Zaha Hadid Studio likes putting up monstrosities all around the world to flatter well-heeled monsters.
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True.
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