Posted on 05/30/2021 7:11:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Classical architecture is not a partisan issue.
President Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party, was an enthusiastic champion of the Greek Revivalism thankfully still visible in both the capital and his Monticello home. When he designed the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he took great care in the landscaping and architecture, knowing their likely effects on generations of young minds.
Fifty years later, President Abraham Lincoln insisted that construction of the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol continue despite the bloody and costly war taking place sometimes just 50 miles from the seat of government. Public beauty in civic buildings, he believed, was crucial to the future of the Union.
Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt drew inspiration from the great Republican of the Civil War, championing the classical and moving ahead with Washington construction as he sought to prepare the country for the world war he saw descending on our fragile peace.
Democrat Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan played an interesting role in Washington’s architectural history, both helping to craft the 1962 General Guidelines that undid more than 50 years of ordered-classical government buildings, then later criticizing the modernism that took its place.
“Twentieth Century America,” he lamented in 1970, “has seen a steady, persistent decline in the visual and emotional power of its public buildings, and this has been accompanied by a not less persistent decline in the authority of its public order.”
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This is an announcement from Genetic Control:
“It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on
Humanoid height”
I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the
Properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold
It’s said now that people will be shorter in height
They can fit twice as many in the same building site
They say it’s alright
Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow
In the interest of humanity, they’ve been told they must go
Told they must go-go-go-go
Genesis, Get ‘em out by Friday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-TwWnn0dk
Joe’s old Greenville mansion:
Greenville is Dupont-level upscale.
I forgot to add that his new mansion is lakeside and his old mansion wasn’t.
Inside the Virginia mansion:
The dining room and kitchen marble work are quite nice.
“They can fit twice as many in the same building site”
Many California Democrats would turn LA into Gaza II if they could avoid damage to themselves.
The only thing that stands in the way of a large part of San Francisco being a S.H. is the lack of the hole.
UMass Amherst campus hotel....
I just saw this last week.
Are you sure that Trump appointed all of them? The article didn’t say.
Freepers: Time to read the Fountainhead by Rand.
All the suites look like cold, concrete interrogation rooms, correct?
If all your town’s buildings are being painted gray and white with little bit of red and maybe tiny bit of medium blue, it is the new Mao look.
That is one HIDEOUSLY-UGLY LUMP of CONCRETE!
I really dislike neo-classicalist buildings, but the statists only have one design, and it’s ugly-depressing-stark-utilitarian.
See https://www.emporis.com/buildings/323694/john-a-hannah-building-lansing-mi-usa for a prime example, but thousands of these monuments to self-loathing exist even here in the US, not to mention the primary examples in PRC or from the Soviet Bloc.
All of the design magazines have gone woke; they’re all in on this.
Architectural Digest is finding D-list or foreign “celebs” and featuring their butt-ugly, uninspiring homes as long as they are people of color.
And most or all of the Ivy League architectural deans are very “woke,” it seems to be more important than actual talent.
Brutalism was really developed in Germany and Putin is more post-Soviet than we are.
#3. Looks like an alien Transformer to me.
Jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party.
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