1.16.2008

The quick way to ruin a building

10 easy ways to ruin a building:

From this morning's local newspaper -












Dear Architect,

You probably listened to the building owner, but you should have told him to sit down, be quiet and LEARN something.

Sincerely,
Me.


What WAS a lovely bit of Prairie Style Architecture is easily ruined by placing 10 Greco-Roman Columns in the front. Wow.

I'm in awe. Shock and Awe.

In its unruined state, it is reminiscent of Wrights' Darwin Martin house, finished in 1905, with the brick being replaced with plate glass, something Wright helped pioneer way back when, with the Larkin Administration Building, in 1904, among others.

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