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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Brzezinski: NoVA is "a Disneyland imitation of the European aristocracy..."
There's a gem of a quote in an article appearing in today's Washington Post concerning Zbigniew Brzezinski's opposition to installing a sidewalk in his suburban Virginia neighborhood. Sounds like Brzezinski is being a creep about the sidewalk, but check out this quote critiquing Northern Virginia's McMansion culture:
In the middle of it all are longtime residents such as Brzezinski...He bought his five-acre estate, with its relatively modest, older house, nearly 30 years ago. He doesn't much care for the mansions going up all around him, saying in an interview that they are "reflective of cultural pretension and pomposity" and "make the whole area look like a joke, a Disneyland imitation of the European aristocracy, without the land." |
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If I had more free time I would start a blog dedicated to the hideous architecture of McMansions.
You know, drive around taking pictures of these things and then giving them aesthetic critiques.
There's one now around the corner from the parents' house that is a architectural nightmare. I should have told you to check it out when you were in town. It's hideous. There is no clear front, except that two sides are brick and the back two sides, which are visible from the road are vinyl-sided. The windows are skinny and out of proportion with the size of the house, and slightly assymetric. What I suppose is the front, that is the side without the 3-car garage, has this horrific mixture of architectural elements surrounding the door, like the architect just couldn't make up his mind what he wanted to do with it.
It's hysterical and terrifying at the same time.
12:24 PM, April 10, 2006
Some fun links for McMansions. Wikipedia, of course, is a good place to start.
Then there is the Austin's Chronicle's McMansion or Not game (like hot or not).
I've learned a new word as a result. Gable-opolis - a reference to the overwrought complexity of rooflines used to emphasize the mass of the building.
That's awesome
7:45 PM, April 10, 2006
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