Bonus Unlocked — 48.5 — OMA — Bigness
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Mega Structures Are Like Shopping Centres
I think he regards them as a funny thing because they're kind of mega structures are explicitly repeating units rather than a skyscraper. Mega structure is like an extension of a landscape. Through size alone such buildings enter an amoral domain beyond good or bad. Their impact is independent of their quality and five is together. All these breaks with scale, with architectural composition, with tradition, with transparency, with ethics imply the final most radical break. This is no longer part of any urban tissue, it exists at most, it co-exists, it's subtext is fuck context. He's really describing a shopping centre. Because being an airport with a shopping centre and a hotel on top.
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