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Post-Modern Statism at its simplest. Note how the sides project over the individual as they enter the building? It could represent how that 'state', in this case the Dallas Municipal gov't., oversees, in this case literally (through the windows), the comings and goings of the individual. At the same time, the foreboding mass of the concrete, one images, threatens to 'crush' the individual...should the power of the gov't (to support itself) ever be undermined. Any sort of ornamentation (which would soften the above interpretation) is notably absent.
Dear God, that building better not still be in use. That thing is hideous!
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I have been to that building, the Dallas City Hall, many years ago when it was new.
It is an I.M. Pei building, the same guy that did the glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Here's my submission for unusual looking building...the downtown Seattle Public Library.
(Rem Koolhaas)
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I have been to that building, the Dallas City Hall, many years ago when it was new.
It is an I.M. Pei building, the same guy that did the glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Here's my submission for unusual looking building...the downtown Seattle Public Library.
(Rem Koolhaas)
Post-Modern Statism at its simplest. Note how the sides project over the individual as they enter the building? It could represent how that 'state', in this case the Dallas Municipal gov't., oversees, in this case literally (through the windows), the comings and goings of the individual. At the same time, the foreboding mass of the concrete, one images, threatens to 'crush' the individual...should the power of the gov't (to support itself) ever be undermined. Any sort of ornamentation (which would soften the above interpretation) is notably absent.
I love your analysis of the building! Very Ayn Rand like perspective.
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