McMansion, USA
So, there you have it. The interiors of our homes, coffee shops and restaurants all look the same. The buildings where we live and work all look the same. The cars we drive, their colours and their logos all look the same. The way we look and the way we dress all looks the same. Our movies, books and video games all look the same. And the brands we
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The tragic horizon: Resisting marketing’s drift towards the business of value destruction — Martin Weigel
It was Parkinson who, with the delicious insight of the born historian, applied this Principle to Architecture, pointing out that PERFECTION OF PLANNING IS A SYMPTOM OF DECAY and providing us with a dazzling succession of examples including the Palace of Versailles (completed in time to receive the news of defeat at Blenheim), the League of Nations
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Filterworld and its slick sameness can induce a breathtaking, near-debilitating sense of anxiety. The sameness feels inescapable, alienating even as it is marketed as desirable.