• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    but hyperstylized stations like this will look weird and dated in 30-40 years.

    Yeah, but if they survive another few decades after that without being torn down / remodeled, they graduate to historic and become cool again.

    The key is to not let the the public get a hold of them in that interim period when everybody thinks they suck (looking at you, brutalism).


    Personally, I’m a fan of the style of the 1970s-1980s era metro stations in my city and (unlike the transit authority) don’t think they need to be renovated.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, but if they survive another few decades after that without being torn down / remodeled, they graduate to historic and become cool again.

      Maybe, maybe not. The TWA terminal at JFK - and exemplar or mid-60s modernism - is an eyesore.

      And Brutalism, to many, was always an eyesore.

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        2 months ago

        The TWA terminal at JFK - and exemplar or mid-60s modernism - is an eyesore.

        What? Why? I’ve never been there in person, but I’m looking at pictures of it and I like it.

        (I will admit it doesn’t look very ADA-compliant, though.)