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    WhoIsTheLeader: Architecture Question

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    • Rusty Vandura
      Rusty Vandura last edited by

      PXL_20201114_162325850.jpg Apart from possibly tasteless, how might you tag the architectural aspects of this building? Faux Craftsman, perhaps?

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      • flatisflat
        flatisflat last edited by

        Colorway looks like it could be appropriately called 'Faux Craftsman'. šŸ™‚
        Architecture style I'd label as post-modern -- all "line, plane, mass" and boring...

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        • ranwhenparked
          ranwhenparked @flatisflat last edited by

          @flatisflat amorphous postmodern with Craftsman-like faux stone slathered on it, since postmodern by itself is too '80s/'90s and the "modern farmhouse" thing is hot right now

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          • Rusty Vandura
            Rusty Vandura @flatisflat last edited by

            @flatisflat Is "colorway" a thing? It seems to me that craftsman is something we're seeing a lot of these days.

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            • Rusty Vandura
              Rusty Vandura @ranwhenparked last edited by

              @ranwhenparked So, "craftsman-like." For an amorphous commercial building, I think it looks not unattractive.

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              • WhoIsTheLeader
                WhoIsTheLeader last edited by

                Not exactly faux craftsman but very corporate and bland. The solar shading details are marginally interesting but overall it reminds me of the tacked on stonework you see on a lot of subdivision houses except on a standard issue corporate office building.

                I'm still a first year, of course, but I'd call it a particularly unremarkable example of an international style corporate office building, probably medical based, with some somewhat tacky stone detailing. It's not bad, per say, but it's entirely unremarkable.

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                • ranwhenparked
                  ranwhenparked @Rusty Vandura last edited by

                  @rusty-vandura Not unattractive, no. You could certainly do worse

                  • this is a very flattering picture of one of my state's government buildings.
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                  • VincentMalamute
                    VincentMalamute last edited by VincentMalamute

                    I like @WhoIsTheLeader 's International style comment. A mix of International and Brutalism.

                    I don't think it's tacky or tasteless but more that it looks of it's age. It looks 60's, 70's. Those haven't aged well.

                    ...meh...

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                    • WhoIsTheLeader
                      WhoIsTheLeader @VincentMalamute last edited by

                      @vincentmalamute I would reckon a good bit newer than that. Looks 2010s to me. That particular brick detailing and the general color palette screams recent medical building to me in particular. I don't think that particular way they've done the brick will age well.

                      I'd expect exposed concrete for a mix of brutalist details but I think that's just large gray tiles. If it is concrete from 50 years ago, it wouldn't look that pristine.

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                      • flatisflat
                        flatisflat @Rusty Vandura last edited by

                        @rusty-vandura I do see 'colorway' used more often in fashion / clothing, etc. but it is a thing. More or less is interchangeable with 'color palette' as far as I'm aware.

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