Kudos to chicago’s Landmarks panel for rejecting a plan wherein yet another building is stripped down to its historic terra cotta facade, and had something completely unrelated stuffed inside.  I’ve had enough of projects that use a multistory garage as street frontage, and dress it up in a fake building with spandrel windows.  Programatic honesty [...]

You can dress it up all you want, it’s still a garage

Kudos to chicago's Landmarks panel for rejecting a plan wherein yet another building is stripped down to its historic terra cotta facade, and had something completely unrelated stuffed inside.  I've had enough of projects that use a multistory garage as street frontage, and dress it up in a fake building with spandrel windows.  Programatic honesty is a virtue of well designed buildings.  Architects should be ashamed to have their names associated with garages that pretend to be buildings.

This entry was written by adam, posted on 5 Jan 2007 at 2:07, filed under architecture, chicago and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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