larusso a day ago

The Statue of Liberty would be red without her patina and would look weird ;). I’m not talking about the beauty of weathering. I think a dirty glass roof which no longer lets any light through a planned weathering tactic. The point was that the plans architects make are always showing the building in prestine condition. And they never reflect how this building will look like in a few years. One example I see every day is a Train-station entrance. It has a very dramatic metal ark that stretches up. Looked great in the past. Now you see dirty water running down the surface. The brushed metal is stained with grime that pilled up. Every time it rains the grime runs a bit deeper. They tried to clean it a few month back. They have to come with a special crane and water jets to remove the grime. But nobody takes the time to polish the surface back up. Is this bad? No of course not. But don’t plan and sell something that will only last for half a year. That’s why I also think this post is brilliant.

  • Joel_Mckay a day ago

    The Art Deco architecture of New York city is often lost on many visitors.

    Lady liberty is showing her age, but only requires a few people still care. She was always beautiful. =3

    • larusso a day ago

      I love NY. Not only for the art decor but als the human weathering ;) I meant that Lady Liberty would look weird because she is known to be green. I know that the early advertisements showed her red as well. Also when the torch was shown in NY to fundraise the pedestal.

Moosdijk a day ago

Bringing kintsugi into this conversation is like saying “being underwater can be quite advantageous!” and linking a video on fish, when the main topic is about people drowning in the ocean.

  • Joel_Mckay a day ago

    Art is everywhere, and starts with a simple philosophy of making things slightly less awful everyday. Initially focused on your own mind, body, and soul... then recognizing you were always part of something a lot bigger and older than most imagine.

    I do appreciate your poetic tone though =3

    • Moosdijk a day ago

      Bad bot

      • Joel_Mckay a day ago

        You will learn this fact in time.

        And bots are not "good" or "bad", but rather an imperfect mirror of statistically salient nonsense. =3

        • Imustaskforhelp a day ago

          > You will learn this fact in time.

          > And bots are not "good" or "bad", but rather an imperfect mirror of statistically salient nonsense. =3

          I think that you are a human and surprised to see you be calm when someone calls you bot because I usually flip out.

          If you are a human, I think that one of the things that I am starting to think to do is reply with I am human only after all video.

          I am only human after all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk

          Or in this case about fishes, we can have the video parody of I am just a fish!

          I am just a fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goAp0XmhZQ

          (this last video is a parody-ish but really great music unironically out of the original music being I am just a freak, both music are really great in my opinion unironically haha!)

          I am just a fish!

IgorPartola a day ago

Patina and rot are very different things.

  • usrusr a day ago

    Not necessarily. On a design that requires being new to look good, all weathering will be perceived as rot, never as patina.

    The point is that some approaches to architectural beauty make it more or less impossible that any amount of weathering could ever be perceived as patina, while others look good both new and old.