McMansion, USA
It “induces a hallucination of the normal,” Koolhaas wrote. A “hallucination” because it isn’t purely organic, it is a vision induced by technology, like a fever dream, and “normal” because it is a homogenized template, a…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The building had the kind of intense and pure shabbiness attained only by cheap new constructions.
Paul Bowles • Let it Come Down: A Novel
Everyone’s office looks the same (a blend of WeWork/Soho House lite). Everyone’s coffee shops look the same and everyone’s coffee looks the same. Our high streets and malls all look the same (Main Street = chain street). Check into a hotel aimed at people in their 20s-40s...which city are you in? Which country, then? Ok, which continent?