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by roachpepe
1867 days ago
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Suddenly - have a picture of "Victor Musgrave having spotted a drain cover". That's some meme potential right there. That alone made the article worth it, thanks! Joking aside I think the urban infrastructure of today could use more of these small touches of aesthetics around. Why does everything modern have to be so boring, somehow I don't see a few ornamental street lamp posts or manhole covers wrecking any governmental budgets. |
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I can't help my overall perception that nearly every single fixed item in the public space (including buildings, lamp posts, benches, door fittings, fences, pavements, ...) has these unbearably boring asthetics today, compared to the design of a few decades ago. Back then, many of these things had textures, ornaments, and other elements that gave the eyes something to look at and hands something to touch.
Almost everything that's put in the public space today is boringly sleek, agressively glossy ... anonymous brushed stainless steel ... a lot is made up of simple primitive forms, planar, spherical, cylindrical ... that's it.
Yeah, they probably do cost less, these minimalistic designs ... but do they really in the long term? Don't they get replaced more often (because noone cares about them anyway) with something new yet equally bland ... more often than those old designs that were richer in details?