Urban Shocker
Doyenne
No, dear, we can't. But we can agree that adma and Archivist may have failed to pick up on the gay graphic designers' humour that permeates the bitchfest between TKTKTK and myself - which TKTKTK has remarked upon several times. And I think we can agree that some of us have little regard for the design-free zone created by "embracing the whole" - that gruesome level playing field between all buildings and public spaces regardless of how well designed or how poorly designed they are. I suspect that TKTKTK and I may have some common ground on that issue. And if someone admits they don't see the world through the filter of aesthetics why would anyone expect them to see either the beau or the laide in anything? The idea that there's something "unfortunate" about the Four Seasons Centre being surrounded by streets on all four sides suggests a similar line of reasoning. It's a building where all sides address the different functional needs of the building in straightforward and unheirarchical ways. It Boy Diamond's response to the FSC site, and It Boy Clewes's response to the the west side of 20 Niagara don't represent a view of design that is absolutist either, just one that accepts these differences.