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Originally Posted by NYguy
I don't think we need any throwbacks here. Something fresh, new, and exciting. We're building the New York of the new century after all.
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I look forward to the day when architects can once again do "revival" architecture with the kind of quality that it has been done in the past. I agree in principal that New York (and all places for that matter) deserves NEW architecture, and that replicating old styles in the modern age tends to come off cheesy and "fake" looking.
We shouldn't forget however, that until the onset of Modernism, it was quite common to take old styles and make them new again. "Beaux Arts," for example, was a take on neo-classical that was highly original, and probably looked very "modern" in its day. I can't wait until "post-modernism" is over and architects can
sincerely create new interpretations of old styles once again.