los chinos están construyendo a las afueras de Pekín su ciudad modelo futurista y socialista, que es a la vez mucho más aburrida y humana: mucha zona verde, sin rascacielos, corredores ecológicos, buena arquitectura, ciudad de los 15 minutos, vivienda social, anti-especulación
Everyone having a visceral reaction to marjane satrapi and acting like she's racist Hitler need to relearn how to think. Having a bitch fit about someone's personal story about growing up and dealing with an oppressive government and religion.
She couldn’t anticipate that western communists would suddenly become ultra dickriding supporters of the anti communist theocratic regime that purged iranian communists.
a reason people get so worked up about new buildings is that they superficially contradict the progress narrative that says our living standards have improved over the last 100 years.
The newer building interior definitely surpasses the old building. It has larger kitchens, bathrooms, closets, better acoustics and insulation, etc.
But it has an austerity facade, and probably for no other reason than the developer has been building this style of building for the last decade and has no motive to invest in a better design because buyers are so desperate for large, updated homes that they will overlook the facade.
I've is kinda a hack. The apple headquarters is a stupidly designed building I saw someone glazing I've for putting switches and buttons in this car as though that hasn't been a trend for the last few years.