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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop
You're all mixed up. Tedious hometown provincialists insisting on Gehry, Hadid, Mayne? WTF?? That's actually overwhelmingly not at all what you'll actually find. Folks insisting on high quality design (and yes, of course modern - this is not 1988 any longer - pomo has come and gone, and good riddance) is what it is about.......this is a foreign concept to Stern, he is a demonstrably lousy 'architect'....
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Obviously homers always want architects from the other side of the world to design towers in their city, duh... Vandelay is totally off kilter and bordering on troll status. People in Chicago welcomed Pomo with open arms for decades (See one Mr. Stanley Tigerman, one of the finest purveyors of Pomo wares to this day) after the second Chicago school just as we welcomed Neo-classicism for decades after the first Chicago school. Now we are again sick of the backwards facing bullshit and looking for something more progressive rather than more of the same. I don't see what is so confusing about that.
Homerism would be calling Stern garbage because he's not from Chicago and demanding that someone like Tigerman design the building instead. My comments about Stern being from the East coast were in regards to Related's attitude in the press about "stepping up their game" here in Chicago and then they drop this turd on us. It's obvious that either Related is totally tasteless or they think Chicagoan's are totally tasteless. It's got to be one or the other because this building is tasteless and certainly does not represent "stepping up their game" by any measure. Even SCB is a significantly more classy and talented firm than Stern.