/ck/ - Food & Cooking

to this?

>>13891618
soul
>>13891620
soulless
Modern architecture was a mistake.

>>13891624
I'm more disgusted by the whitewashed logo than anything else

It changes from summer to winter every year.

>>13891620
every restaurant looks like this now, no idea why

>>13891618
I love the taco bell by my house.
The one time a year I get wasted I end up going there and time traveling to the 1990s it's amazing.

>>13891618
>>13891620
>>13891624
>waah change bad!
Fuck off, boomer

>>13891682
>change bad
Yes.

>>13891682
Go back to shoving mountain dew soaked doritos up your ass.

Remove that tiny sliver with the logo on the left, and you have no idea what restaurant it is lmao.
Could be Starbucks, could be chipotle, McDonald's, Burger King, what is it?!

>>13891831
A place where the average 4chan retard eats heavily salted garbage

>>13891700
Topkek

>>13891837
You sound pretty salty yourself. You okay?

>>13891664
In the future, all restaurants will be Taco Bell.

>>13891620
because it appeals to hipsters and soycucks

>>13891891
No one genuinely likes this aesthetic. Corporate builds this way because it is cheap.

>>13891693
That building looks fucking cool

>>13891831

a strip mall

>>13891907
Yeah, it looks cool, but not the tumor on top of it.

>>13891682
They could have at least went with a mix of modern and adobe.

>>13891907
lol no it doesn't

>>13891620
One of the current motifs of this architecture revolves around the logo and the name being the only prominent thing you want your customers to notice. In order to know what building it is, you have to look for the logo and name specifically. It gets you more familiar with the logo and the name. In the world of the Internet and App orders, what can fit into a phone icon is all they want you to know them as.

A bell. Clean, straight lines, visibility. Clean. Sterile. Safe. Distant. Exactly how it looks on your phone, in-person.

>>13891937
>coronabell

soul

soulless

>>13891944
For (You)

>>13891618
>>13891957
This is what they took from us.

SOUL STATUS: CRUSHED

Taco Bell got their new logo from the movie Demolition Man

>>13891837
This

>>13891975
It gets even worse.

>>13892022

>>13892028
Jesus fuck why that's a piece of fast food history

At least checkers didn't fuck theirs up as badly

>>13892050
Checkers isn't even remotely relevant. Chrome sucks btw.

>>13891944
goddamn it Don you've done it again. you truly are... a Mad Man

>>13891682
>OBEY
>ADAPT
>ASSYMILATE
>AAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSYMILATE

>>13891960
That's hilarious, thanks for honoring my shitpost. Saved.

Check out the interiors if you really wanna see soul to soulless.

Soulless.

>>13892972
One of the taco bell near me looks like this and it is extra shitty in service.

>>13892972
>>13892977
Uhh the interior is one thing that I would actually say improved. That original one looks sterile and SOULLESS as fuck. The bottom one has nice lighting and fixtures. Don’t know who’s even eating inside fast food places tho

>>13893047
The new interior has warmer colors, but the older interior reflects a simpler time, a pre-9/11 time. Just look at those swivel-chairs you never see anymore. The simple colors and patterns, the lingering 80's vibe to it all.

The new interior could be any fast food place if you just replaced/removed the logos. It's too busy, the colors don't really blend well and they use the bench back to try bringing all the colors together.

>>13892972
The taco bell in in my hometown had this interior. I haven't been there in ten years but I'm too scared to go back and see what it looks like now.

>>13891976
>Canadian A&W in the background
YOU CAN'T CRUSH THIS KIND OF SOUL.

>>13892972
the swivel chairs. the fucking swivel chairs man.

>>13891671
Tfw local taco bell recently got renovated from '90s styling to modernist trash

>>13891937
Also extremely cool looking. Imagine actually being a boomer who hates modern architecture. If it were brutalism I would understand it, but curved glass and steel that can only hold together because of super cool alloys are the coolest shit.

>>13893762
>>13891682

>>13893769
You admitted it before I had to say it, thanks.

>>13891618
>>13891620
>>13891959
Buildings are easier to resell if they're not super specialised. It's just planning for a failed business

>>13891957
>>13891959
My nearest McDonald's went from having a fleshed-out 50's theme (complete with a jukebox and old motorcycles on display) to lifeless bullshit. The only remarkable thing about it now is a collage comprised of stock photos of random businesspeople.

>>13893782
>Buildings are easier to resell if they're not super specialised
See:
>>13891976
I live near this one, and there was a massive scramble to buy it after Pizza Hut left because zoning restrictions no longer allow for big iconic looking buildings for new developments.

>>13891620

mfw the interior is less comfy because they dont want anyone in there longer than 5 min. try going to an older one and sitting on the comfy cushioned chairs

>>13892972
That looks comfy as fuck.

>>13891664
>>13891873
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7sQEU6gXE4

>>13893892
>youtube.com

>>13891988
this is factual

>>13893925
agreed

Whataburger remains untouched

>>13893762
Haha yeah dude don't you just love fucking SCIENCE? I love SCIENCE, like, cool alloys and shit? That's so rad. Who cares about architectural design and taste or any of that boomer shit when you can make everything an amorphous blob instead?

You sound like such a fucking queer I swear.

>>13891682
SQUARE GOOD

>>13891831
its done on purpose, if the business goes out they want to be able to re rent the building, also the reason the buildings are generic isn't so much that taco bell wants to be hip and architectual so much as the locations the stores are in have to keep up with the surrounding architecture of nearby residential/commercial and they don't want the buildings to stick out

>>13893047
>doesn't know 70's era brown black vinyl interiors

>>13893892
its local zoning ordances, the neighborhoods want all the local buildings to look the same and free floating taco shaped buildings look garish/tacky to cities

>>13894056
the colors... they hurt my "eyes"

>>13894059
more like some suburb wants to look like the nice strip mall down the street with the star bucks and doesn't want to live next to a giant red and yellow mcdonalds building

>>13892972
this shit always looked like 80's bathroom

>>13891618
>generic 70s design, outdated
>faux casa, theme park tier "architecture"
>"OH NO NOT THE TAQUERINO!! Our American culture is being destroyed by the soulless modernity!!"
the old one is the equivalent of a halloween costume. the new one is the equivalent of a suit and tie. yes it looks "clean, sterile, safe, distant". that's the point. because it looks presentable and more serious, unlike the old clown show of a design.

>>13894062
>>13894085
CONSUME
OBEY

>>13894085
>hating on old clown shows
The J.P. Patches Show was a work of art. You fucking better step off.

>>13894099
"d-destroying muh faux casa taco place... this is how our enslavament starts"

>>13894103
"c-cancelling muh unscripted children's tv shows... this is how our enslavement starts"

>>13894138
>>13894129
Kill yourself kike. You're a disgusting rat jewish kike. For the good of the WHITE RACE, you kikes must all be gassed to death in the oven. Die, kike, die.

>>13894153
One of those posts was meant to be clever satire of the other. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear. I genuinely enjoyed the J.P. Patches Show as a child.

>>13894153
nothing says "subversion of tradition and European culture" like changing a generic 70s faux Mexican diabetus farm to a generic 2020 diabetus farm
it hurts my soul that our white children will never witness the cultural heritage that was faux mexican casas with glorious Aryan green yellow red stripes on top. this is 100x worse than burning of Notre Dame, yuropeans will never understand

>>13894209
Wow! You're really mad now! You are so fucking mad right now. What's the matter? Are you gonna cry? Maybe piss your pants? Shit and cum? Kill yourself kike. You're a disgusting rat jewish kike. For the good of the WHITE RACE, you kikes must all be gassed to death in the oven. Die, kike, die.

>>13894216
I agree, we need to preserve the purity of faux Mexican food for our children. we need to pass diabetus culture to future generations
jokes aside, google Mies Van Der Rohe, Franck Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, etc. all of them white.
when you're replacing actual good traditional architecture with shitty modernism like >>13891693, it is bad. when you're replacing trash with modernism, it is an improvement.

>>13894271
Wow! You're really mad now! You are so fucking mad right now. What's the matter? Are you gonna cry? Maybe piss your pants? Shit and cum? Kill yourself kike. You're a disgusting rat jewish kike. For the good of the WHITE RACE, you kikes must all be gassed to death in the oven. Die, kike, die.

>>13893762
you have bad taste honey

>>13891873
Can't fucking wait. The spicy potato tacos are god-tier.

>>13891624
Both buildings are modern and ugly.

>>13892977
I'm usually right on the ball with soul/soulless comparisons, but I would much rather eat at 2. 1 might have soul, but it's fucking depressed like an abused child of meth addicts that was just taken into a state foster care system

>>13892972
>generic cookie cutter design from when I was growing up: soul
>generic cookie cutter design from nowadays: soulless
ok millennial

>>13891693
>>13894012
>>13894450
>t. NPCs
If any of the architects of these buildings said anti-semitic remarks, you’d call kt based

>>13894085
Fast food is SUPPOSED to be a clown show. Ronald McDonald is literally a clown. I don't need my fast food to be serious and reflective, I would rather be served by oompa loompas and clowns so it's a more magical experience. It shouldn't be like a bank transaction.

>>13893762
not really, looks more like a nice old building grew an ugly grey tumor that's suffocating it. preserving the architectural style of a neighborhood is much more unique and beautiful than sticking glass and steel blobs on everything just because you can

I'll upload a couple of pictures from a time when TBell had SOUL

2nd

>>13894761
Is that a surveillance camera in the corner? Soulless if so

>>13894761
It is, I guess it's a little less soul because of it, but if that's it's only transgression, I'll take it.

>>13894767
>>13894761
I bet boomers said back then, "what a soulless modern garbage! look at those shitty pastels and squiggly lines! back when I was young, everything looked like rail dining cars, now THAT was soul, and this modern shit is some communist abstract trash"

>>13891620
i watched a few tours of celebrity homes last night and my first thought of most of them was "wow they all have the architecture of a modern taco bell."

>>13894756
>Fast food is SUPPOSED to be a clown show.
maybe for you yes. but you're not the only customer on the market. back in 60s-70s-80s everything was admittedly less serious though. if this still made money, restaurants would still be doing it.

>>13894789
That's a good perspective, the silent generation and boomers most likely saw the squiggly lines/colors and geometric shapes as new-wave corporatism, big chains trying to appeal to a younger audience perhaps?

>>13894798
They're not giving it a chance to make money because they removed it. I'd like to have a coomer fast food restaurant. I'd put furry walls and little fap booths. There wouldn't be sex sounds out in the open, just on headphones so that each person could enjoy their porn to their self.

>>13894807
well yes, that's what I meant. there's always a generic corporate design out there.
10s-30s had art deco. 40s had streamline. 50s had googie/space age architectue and midcentury modern (the latter remained till late 70s). late 60s and 70s had the obvious stripes, prevalence of brown/orange, etc. 80s was shown above. 2000s was revival of sci-fi looking stuff from the late 60s with all the blobby stuff etc. now it's the turn revival of midcentury modern (similar to Apple Stores).
these will all look soulful and endearing to people who grew up in their respective eras. but you want the truth? virtually all of it was generic, safe, cookie cutter corporate design. just because it was from your childhood might hold special value to you, but it doesnt to other people.

>>13894823
>They're not giving it a chance to make money because they removed it.
if it made money it wouldn't get removed. if you seriously thinking corps like McDonalds want to lose profits, you're mistaken.
current year look was made by Starbucks and Apple. this is what kids pay money for nowadays, and they want more of the same.

>>13891618
Same way pic related happens. Shit changes, yo. Not always for the better.

>>13893842
>50s aesthetic replaced with child psychologist waiting room aesthetic

>>13894918
>child psychologist waiting room aesthetic
They like to make their customers feel comfortable, in a familiar environment.

>>13891957
What the fuck? This is the second picture I've seen recently in which McDonald's is advertising bags of ice. Who the fuck is buying ice from McDonald's?

>>13892042
You don't have history, goy. Oh, and it's called herstory now.

>>13891618
>>13891957
this looks shit and cheap

>>13891620
>>13891959
this looks shit and cheap, and new.

"REEEEE it used to be so good" Ok boomer.

>>13892022
>>13892028
>literally just changed the logo and some colors
>millennial cries in pain

Sole

Soleless

>>13891618
If the older Taco Bell goes out of business what faggot is going to want to put their new store in a fucking Adobe hut? Change the logo on the newer store and you have a new business.

>>13893762
I'm a "super cool" faggot! "Cool" and "cool" looking!!!

>>13894931
>Who the fuck is buying ice from McDonald's?
>What is traveling?
>What is camping?
>What is fishing?
>What are outdoor parties?
McDick's is ubiquitous. People stop there all the time. They have ice. People sometimes need ice. May as well sell it.

>>13891618
we can go back even further

>>13894980
>soleless
In my 20s, I was a stinky Deadhead. The music was OK, I was in it mostly for the drugs and sex. Anyway, knew a head named Tony who was a barefoot guy. Never wore shoes. His feet were dirty as fuck, callused, and probably borderline gangrenous. He had a pair of 'shoes' just like your pic related. Called them his 'dining sandals' and put them on whenever he went somewhere that required shoes. Strange guy.

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>>13891624
>Fast food
>Soul
LMAO, Do Americans really?

>>13895015
Fuck hippies, goddamn.

>>13891937
It looks like a rotten heart jesus christ. Gas anyone who thinks this looks remotely acceptable

>>13895024
We fucking invented fast food, and don't you forget it. Also, the food quality has suffered tremendously since its inception.

>>13895024
The architecture, not the food.

>>13895032
>and don't you forget it
hard to forget when you're the most obese nation in the West

>>13895035
The architecture from the original is still shit-tier

>>13895032
Bravo, you manage to make mediocre food worse

>>13895056
>The architecture from the original is still shit-tier
Yeah, but at least it wasn't just squares with no detail or trim or anything to it. There was some character there, even if it's just a cheap corporate imitation of pueblo architecture.

>>13893782
/thread

>>13894994
>Im a faggot that likes old things because they’re old and no girl ever called me an incel when I was 6 and eating nuggies

>>13895035
Name one thing about the right one that is worse without calling me a fag or saying you don’t like it

>>13895120
>called me an incel when I was 6
Considering that term wasn't even used until a few years ago, you're underage.

>>13895130
It's ugly and unpleasant to look at.

>BeAuTy Is SuBjEcTivE

>>13894787
EMBRACE TRADITION
REJECT MODERNITY

soul = how stuff looked when I was growing up

>>13893842
God I know the feeling, there's one near me that everyone knew as "the 50s McDonald's", it still had vintage style stools and booths, a life size statue of Elvis in the lobby, shit like that everywhere

A few years back they finally "renovated" the place and brought it in line with all the other sterile modern locations, the only thing left is the old sign outside the building

>>13895189
>nothing has soul, it's just nostalgia
>change is always an improvement
>nothing has ever gotten worse over time

>>13895204
You literally all are nostalgia babies though, those interiors were dog shit and were seen as corporate pandering to kids when they started popping up in strip malls across America

>>13895189

No. Technically modernist architecture is how things looked when we were growing up, it's how things looked after WW2 in general. I would say what the right wing hates is postmodern architecture. Sort of. They hate bad postmodern is more like it, technically postmodern architecture should have all these elements like deliberate complexity, strong use of color, humor, fragmentation, etc. What's hated here is a sort of "cheap Bauhaus" look for which I've started to just use "IKEA" as an adjective.

>>13895204
>nothing has soul, it's just nostalgia
>change is always an improvement
not really, but people are far too biased for the stuff they grew up with. zoomers are similarly biased for the stuff that is "hype" right now (in their childhood/adolescence).
in reality, it is a pretty accepted criticism that modernist architecture looks sterile and soulless. it's nothing new, people have said it since the 50s and 60s (which later resulted in postmodernism, vernacular, all sorts of revivalism, etc). it's not just coincidence too; modernist movement actually wanted to eliminate personality from architecture. it was _meant_ to be depersonalized, and in a way stripped of identity.
however, it doesn't mean it was bad. it was aesthetically pleasing, it looked presentable and clean. and it has always been about function first. it never looked ridiculous or tacky, too.
on the other hand, 80s corporate design was not much better. same shit from a different angle. take modernism, add funny geometric shapes and pastels. maybe add some patterns, grids, and other trendy stuff of the time. that's pretty much it for most part. so if you think it had much more soul, maybe it's just your nostalgia speaking.

the last good architectural movement was art deco.

this is not up for debate

>>13892972
>>13894761
>>13894767
They should bring back the prison style seats/benches so when coons chimp out they don't have anything to pick up and throw.

>>13895280
>modernist movement actually wanted to eliminate personality from architecture. it was _meant_ to be depersonalized, and in a way stripped of identity.
>however, it doesn't mean it was bad. it was aesthetically pleasing
What drugs are you on?

>>13895358
a lot of good modernism is aesthetically pleasing. of course if you take shitty examples, it will look drab. but guess what, not everything looked great in the old times either.

>>13894769
Well there is a black guy sitting there.

>>13895373
Is that supposed to be a good example? And yeah, not everything looked great, but at least people knew when it didn't.

>>13895387
"modernism" refers to a particular movement/style. it does not mean all of contemporary architecture.
in fact, in your example it's breaking the key modernist principle of functionalism. this is clearly form over function acrhitecture. sometimes, this can work (eg Guggenheim museum). other times it simply becomes waste. grandiose, overpriced architecture of today has many critics, but at the same time it can look original and interesting. if you want functionalism, grey boxes of modernism are way more functional and cheap anyway.

>>13891620
how?
reddit is how

>>13895373
fallingwater only looks nice because of its location

>>13895287
Googie was good, though

>>13895462
still, this style looks clean and has certain aesthetic. sometimes it might look dull like Mies Van Der Rohe, but it serves the function well. glass, steel and stone look naturally pleasing to the eye, too.

>>13891620
>>13891831
>>13891959
Late stage capitalism and communism seem to have a lot in common

>>13891959
The new mcdonalds actually look awful, they painted the one near me poop brown and its fuckingbawful.

>>13895497
company I work for manages some mies van der rohe buildings, south chicago apartment complexes

>>13895497
Who is seriously excited about a completely sterile aesthetic?

>>13895504
it's true. Ыoviet constructivism developed very similar ideas to the Western modernism at about the same time - hence the blocky look. however, Carbini Green and other similar projects failed in the US, so commie blocks didnt quite catch on in the US

>>13893082
9/11 literally changed our world and we didn't even realize it at the time...NWO had something to do with everything changing

>>13895520
this is missing the point. it's like seeking excitement in a suit and tie. it's not meant for this purpose. it's not even meant to look different. it's meant to not distract and look presentable, but aesthetically pleasing.
there's clothing that's made to look exciting. but there's also something that's just meant to do the job and look good and presentable. same with architecture and design in general. you won't go to a work in a poncho, although it is probably more exciting than wearing a suit or a business casual outfit. but you do it to not look like a retard. and maybe it's better this way.

>>13895504
it's true. Soviet constructivism developed very similar ideas to the Western modernism at about the same time - hence the blocky look. however, Carbini Green and other similar projects failed in the US, so commie blocks didnt quite catch on in the US

>>13895555
It is really aesthetically pleasing if it looks like every other single thing?
It is functional but merely inoffensive, not pleasing.

>>13891664
its obviously cheaper

>>13895559
Its sad, Carbini Green faile because of economic recession fucking the inhabitants over and over.

Imagine thinking fast food chains ever had soul

>>13895562
it is aesthetically pleasing in the same way you can look in a well-fitting, well-made suit. yes, you can also wear something crazy. but if you think about it, only people who dress crazy are gays and retards.
is clothing there for entertainment? not really. it is there to create an impression, to fit in. "inoffensive" is good if anything, unless you're dressing to a party or something like that. except party is a party, and everyday life is everyday life.
this is why male fashion is pretty boring. it is all the same thing if you think about it. but this doesn't mean you can look good in it. a well fitting t-shirt or jeans can make you look like million dollars. does it matter that everybody wears it? who cares?
and this is the same for architecture. a company doesn't want to look retarded or crazy. something like Taco Bell serves millions of people daily. they serve grownups and kids, men and women, white people, Asians, blacks and hispanics. imagine the image it wants to create to look good and respectable in front of all these people. ften times this means being safe. and this is what you get. you get a corporate equivalent of business casual, not a corporate equivalent of Billie Eilish outfit.

>>13891664
capitalist minmaxing gets ~~commie~~ freedom blocks

>>13895131
They probably mean "involuntary celibate"

>>13895612
underrated posts

Bros... what happened to the soul?

>>13894209
TVCO BELL...my homeland...

>>13895562
also I guess I should add.
the error here is thinking that you're creating art. no. you're creating an image for a brand. you're not creating something to be looked at a gallery to get excited or entertained; you're creating an image for a brand that will create a certain impression and form people's opinion.
and this is very important. modern branding and marketing is all about this. people look at the brand to see reflection of themselves. if you think of yourself as normal, well-adjusted person, probably you will feel at home at a place that looks normal and well-adjusted like yourself. it's very similar to how you pick clothes - you are what you wear; you are where you eat, what you play, what you watch, etc.
in other words - you pick things that fit and confirm your identity. many people are completely unconscious about this, but this doesn't make it any less important.
you may simply feel embarrassed and uncomfortable going to eat everyday to a place that looks like a theme park castle - let alone take a date there. in fact, if you'd get a date, you'll likely want to _impress_ her. so you won't go to some cheap Chinese place. likely you'll pick something more sophisticated.
this is similar to how all the hipsters go to starbucks or buy apple products. it's not about the product for most part. it's about the image and to feel like you're smart and sophisticated.
and this is why a chain for everybody looks so, well, E for Everyone. this is why it looks painfully average, because it's made for painfully average people, for lowest common denominator, to make everybody feel that this chain is for them. this is also probably why McDonalds dropped their mascots, because after they grew to a place where millions of Americans eat every day, they realized people feel awkward looking at at those cartoon characters. this is why anything remotely ridiculous will probably get ironed out from fast food eventually.

>>13891664
It's a subtle way for the government to phase out individuality.

>>13895746
Lotsa words to say that we need to do away with mass appeal

>>13895783
the moment you do away with mass appeal you're left without mass cash, and it goes to your competitor. of all things, this especially applies to fast food. McDs didnt get to #1 spot by going against the grain and being sophisticated kino for the initiated.

>>13893925
Can you please shut the fuck up and kill yourself?

>>13891618
All of you are tasteless and on the spectrum. The old buildings were tacky, gaudy and white trash. Do the new buildings look repetitive? Yes but they're not offensive to the eye the way the old ones were nor do I feel like I'm in a shithole fly over state when I'm in them. Get with the times lads

>>13893892
what the fuck is this dumb bullshit im like halfway through and the dumb bitch hasn't actually explained anything she is just making dumb bullshit up

>>13895456
>>13895497
That still looks like shit though. I'm sure someone will get triggered because the narrator talks about God and virtues, but it's worth watching if anyone actually cares about all of this. Utilitarian-driven design is cancer, the whole ideology pretends like traditional architecture didn't accomplish any of the requirements of the buildings -- yet nobody wants to live or work in utilitarian shit.

https://vimeo.com/128428182

>>13891937
are they fumigating the building or something? why is it wrapped in a bumpy trash bag?

>>13895977
>That still looks like shit though.
to each his own.
>the whole ideology pretends like traditional architecture didn't accomplish any of the requirements of the buildings -- yet nobody wants to live or work in utilitarian shit.
utilitarian shit is cheap and does the job with the least amount of investment. comparing temples and palaces to office buildings is missing the point entirely.
most of this doc seems to be about how modern art is degeneracy and contradicts tradition. to some extent this is true. but art is art, and design/architecture is a different story. it serves function and image first. if it didn't work, no one would invest money in it.

>>13895493
I love living in SoCal for the random googie diners that you would just find driving around the city.

>>13896069
>utilitarian shit is cheap and does the job with the least amount of investment.
It loses its value faster than a brand new car. It may be cheap in the short term in certain cases, but it's usually more expensive in the long term.
>comparing temples and palaces to office buildings is missing the point entirely.
That's dishonest. I've posted comparisons of literally the same street and addresses.
>most of this doc seems to be about how modern art is degeneracy and contradicts tradition.
He gets into architecture later in it, don't remember the timestamps. Looks like he talks about modern architecture around 17:00 and then traditional architecture later in the documentary.
>if it didn't work, no one would invest money in it.
The problem with this defense of utilitarianism is that nobody wants to buy a lot of the utilitarian office buildings because they're so ugly that nobody wants to rent space from them. You'd be running the buildings at a loss because nobody wants to live in it. So what happens is the building is demolished and usually replaced with some other ugly utilitarian design that's slightly more hip and trendy than the previous design (e.g. replacing concrete with glass walls on steel frames 20:00 in the vid).

On the other hand, traditional architecture, or more accurately architecture which learns from the past, tends to stay useful for a long time.

Here are some price comparisons btw. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where bland boring utilitarian cubes are cheaper, but they just get demolished/replaced in a few years anyway.

>>13893948
God Bless Texas

>>13894056
fucking love this...signs in our neighborhood can’t be taller 5ft from ground level and have to be approved by the architecture committee so we don’t a bunch of purple pink bullshit

If you HAD to be reincarnated as one taco bell item, and you wouldn't be able to choose anything but the item itself, what would be?

I would be a meximelt with hopefully fire sauce added.

>>13894789
“Welcome to Route 66”

>>13892022
>>13892028
It looks the exact same fullstop they aren't going to massively renovate the external structure of the building because the golden arches are what that particular store are all about. Everything else will get occasion of face lifts here and there to fit the current corporate image. But otherwise the store doesn't change

>>13891937
I would be pissed if they placed some trash like that right next to my house.

>>13896224
To what end? What would be my goal as a Taco Bell item? To be delicious? To NOT get eaten? Am I still sentient?

>>13895035
two tone stripe bricks, random mixture of geometric shapes (triangular windows, cylindrical clock tower, over-sized archway with flat top platform) whatever that random cargo ship bridge looking thing on the clock part is, random columns on the side, basically the whole goddamned thing. any one of those as a singular theme would have been better

>>13895130
two tone stripe bricks, random mixture of geometric shapes (triangular windows, cylindrical clock tower, over-sized archway with flat top platform) whatever that random cargo ship bridge looking thing on the clock part is, random columns on the side, basically the whole goddamned thing. any one of those as a singular theme would have been better

>>13896381
What kind of question is that, of course to be delicious.

>>13891873
Welcome to...
TACO HELL

>>13897059
Oh well then for me it's a plain soft taco, the best taco bell item.

>>13895504
That's actually really fucking intresting.

>>13893782
Not to mention the facades on the older buildings look like they would be difficult, and thus expensive, to maintain.

They're a fast food business, not an art piece.

>>13895024
>soul
>reality
do primates really?

>>13891618
>>13891620
Americans dislike the ethnic twist when it comes to visuals. Dull and modest is preferable to culturally rich and vibrant.

>>13891873
Based judge dred poster

>>13891831
how does that look like a restaurant to you?

>>13891664
Because of Chipotle, and they want to look like “healthy” restaurants.

>>13895559
>helping poor people didn't catch on in the US
what a surprise

>>13892050
based checkers
still giving the status quo the finger

>>13893948
or, as its known to siri, Waterburger

>>13897135
>herding people into soulless commie blocs is helping
Are housing projects really not enough for you lefty board tourists?

>>13894716
it's not about that. it's about the color and the greasiness and the visceral reaction you get. we don't want something conventionally "beautiful" because some newly graduated architect told the executive whats right.

>>13894735
cant tell if retard or troll

>>13894892
the difference was in 1948 metrosexual retards had to be underground

>>13895014
based

>>13895373
that does look good, but it would look better with some dirt on it for character. nobody with a brain wants some perfect manufactured artifice sitting in the forest.

>>13895027
I hope one day anything I create will trigger idiots as hard as you're triggered over this.

>>13895373
That looks horrid only the environment around it looks nice.

>>13895504
This really says a lot about our society

>>13896169

I dont understand how the right side is supposed to be more utilitarian and less offensive to the eye...seems like this is one of those things only deeply looked into by the poor sucker's who majored on the subject.

I want my restaurants to have character. Maybe the ceiling is too low so you have to hunch over. Or you hit your head on the ceiling in a particular doorway. Or there's a nail sticking out of the wall in a few places, and you cut yourself. Have the whole restaurant be smoker friendly. Some bubble gum on the walls and under the tables. Maybe a leak in the ceiling. Fuck up the outside a little.

>>13897457
Unironically sounds like the Tomahawk restaurant in North Vancouver. The whole place is a repurposed public park bathroom decorated with native kitsch. Shows up every once in a while in those travelling Food Network shows.

>>13897128
Honestly it doesn't. But that look has been the trend among restaurants for a few years now so I'm used to it.
My first thought is that it looks like a bank.

>>13897594
LOL facts. i could also see it as a real estate office

>>13893853
>there was a massive scramble to buy it after Pizza Hut left because zoning restrictions no longer allow for big iconic looking buildings for new developments.

I wonder if that's the case for my town too. There's a pizza hut building that changes hands at least twice a year from business ownders trying to set up their failing businesses inside it. The pizza hut roof is pretty good publicity but I guess it's all those people are banking on if no one can keep it together there.

At one point it was a ramen restaurant, I only went there once before it closed too but it was pretty good.

>>13891618
I miss the smooth jazz music they used to play in Taco Bell.

>>13897174
he's right

>>13898080
I miss the Chihuahua

>>13891682
If you're going to give the masses diabeetus at least have some fucking style

>>13891957
wrong

>>13891959
correct

>>13895387

>>13891693
what the fuck are those mutt goblins at the bottom?

>>13897128
I've eaten at 10/10 restaurants in a fucking stripmall. A lot of good food is in locations you wouldn't expect, it's just all the bad food is there too.

>>13891693
looks like a giant glass turd shat onto a building
hard and knobbly at the front, tapered towards the back

I unironically quite my Pizza Hut job because the jews decided to convert our soul building into soulless Brave New World tier shit.

Ever notice old Pizza Hut buildings with those stupid ass roofs?

>>13891620
commie blocks will look so comfy when we all are living underground chewing on roots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07Pudtl-Ro

>>13891618
>>13891620
>>13891664
>>13891624
>>13891634
>>13891693
>>13891831

as a 21 year old here is my perspective. the old looking buildings from the 80s and 90s look disgusting, cheap, and outdated to me. The new ones are much more aesthetically pleasing and complement the city around them despite them being less iconically shaped. The interiors in the older style buildings are really unacceptable. the average chuck-e-cheese is more appealing to eat in than these. Fast food is typically seen as low class. Everyone still eats it regardless so these brands are taking a mature step forward and investing in new more modern architecture that doesn't look like midwestern shacks painted in neon colors. People these days want to eat in a space that feels a little more professional than the restaurants of old.
Who cares if they look similar. its not like the older restaurants looked that much different from each other either.

sorry boomers, your ugly pizza hut looking barns just don't cut it anymore

>>13891957
ghetto
>>13891959
free wifi

>>13892972
incredibly cheap and the thought of sitting in 30 year old fast food seats makes me want to throw up
>>13892977
you could comfortably do work on your laptop for a few hours if you are travelling

>>13899067
you have to be 22 to post here

>>13891618
THIS TACO BELL IS WHAT THE GODDAMN JEWS AND FUCKING SJWS TOOK FROM YOU. ARE YOU GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR JUST ACCEPT IT?

>>13895504
I hate commies but it seems either way we end up as soulless domesticated bug people with limited interpersonal connections and no culture who live in pods. Capitalism just has more steps.

>>13891976
These guys must have some stake in development or something, a whole lot of pizza huts were turned into those in the vancouver area.

>>13895462
The interior of fallingwater is my favorite thing about it. Wright was a madman and his angry ghost sweats through that boulder in the hallway.

>>13897455
The ones one the right aren't modernist, they're post-modernist. "Modernism" or "modernist" in the context of architecture refers to a specific series of distinct architectural styles that were created around the start of the 20th century through the 1970s. Not all styles during that period are considered modernist though.

>>13893762
Reading this makes me glad I don't have thoughts like this.

>>13895497
His Farnsworth House is honestly pretty comfy, I was skeptical at first from the pictures but actually being inside of it is really something spectacular.
I’ve only been in it during the summer but I’d love to do a fall night tour.

>>13891620
the mcdonalds lawsuit scared a lot of fast food owners to become for bland corporate and soulless with the added benefit of being cookie cutter and cost cutting.

Cant be too colorful anymore since that will attract the unsupervised hoards of children to your store to but diabetes in a wrapper

Traditionalist Western architecture sucks. All it is is trying to eye rape everyone with monolith size and cramming trinkets and swirls into every possible square square inch. Modern architecture sucks for a similar reason, but it differs when it tries to become abstract and uses non-conventional shapes. Instead of looking gaudy and imposing, it might instead look retarded and imposing.

True beauty in architecture is when it is innervated humbly with the environment with respect to inherent principles of organization.

>>13899067
No one gives a fuck about your blog post, faggot.
>>/r/eddit

>>13899735
> Hey guys, what's the deal with these new buildings?
> gives well thought out perspective
> No one cares lmao faggoy
> ck

I care anon, and as a 29 yo, I also agree with you. The boomers will all be dead soon, so it's not like their opinions matter in the slightest.

>>13899892
>pushing 30
>calling others boomers
lmao
at least you'll be dead too sooner than others

>>13899942
Nah senpai, once all the boomers are dead we can finally start progressing in the science field instead of being held back by "muh fetus cells", and we'll live forever.

>>13895504
Rather live in a commieblock than a shitty absurdly expensive >>13897088
papier mâché “house”.
>also unironically thinking the older generic chain buildings looked remotely good
>>13895654
kek

>>13900018
of course you would because poor people have no choice

>>13891664
Look at who own it and then realize that other chains owned by it look similar, it's a cost saving measure I think and if you want to switch restaurants you can with minimal changes to the structure

>>13896243

>>13896257
Don't worry, you'll never be able to afford to live in an area as nice as that anyway.

>>13895035
goddam that building on the left is just so good to look at, What beautiful work.

>>13897217
You're not creating shit, loser. Pipe down

>>13891937
>>13891693
I honestly love this architectural thing where they put a super modern and weird design next to/on top of an old building. Looks cool as fuck.

>>13894761
These images are really eerie to me. It's like the backrooms thing.

>>13895358
Is this Munich? Looks familiar.

>>13893762
Yea why bother going into a gallery to look at paper and paint and shit when i can look at the motion sensor on the doors leading in. It's more technologically complex so it must be more interesting, right?