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kleinbl00  ·  1218 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture

And why are you cool celebrating a cherry-picked aspect of the past, particularly when that cherry-picked aspect clearly and definitively does not represent the aspect you wish to celebrate? Why not celebrate the totality of the present?

Here's the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi woman:

Find a bad angle of that building. I dare you.

Here's the Odunpazeri Modern in Turkey by Kengo Kuma, a postwar Japanese architect.

Here's the fucking Eiffel Tower.

All three of these buildings are banned under the current executive order.