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93 — Andrea Palladio 3 — Palladian Palazzi

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Porto Braganza: A Strange Urban Fragment

It's the thing of encrusting the building in like, you know, flowers and cake and fruit and trumpets and things, completely covering the facade. It does work nicely though, because it creates this sort of complex sort of noisy ground. And then you've got the strength of the openings into the building and then you have these like big, properly convex attached columns again, which kind of punch through it. So it's, yeah, no, it's definitely, there's a real sort of mastery of those types of effects.

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