Comments on: New 202-unit condoplex beginning construction at 14th and Mission

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:20:48 +0000

Ok, fair enough. I don’t have a strong impression of LA architecture, when I think about it what comes to mind is Art Deco, craftsman-style and mid-century modern architecture. But, obviously, that is not definitive. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.

As far as the buildings being built here, are you saying that you don’t think they’re ugly? Because if that’s the case, that’s fine, that’s just differences in aesthetic opinion. What I find ugly, others may find beautiful, and vice-versa.

What I was taking issue with was the idea that are only two choices are Nothing-at-all or this sort of design. I absolutely reject that as a false dichotomy. There are plenty of examples of new buildings being put up that are NOT of that same Mission-Bay type boxy architecture. Clearly it is not the only option.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:06:34 +0000

Really?! OK, here's some skinny: of course (note the HTML there?) LA has both, but their new buildings are so much worse than anything we have (or could have) here (I grew up there, alright?) that you would have to be almost culturally blind to not see how far above "ugly" the stuff we have here is. Think sub-Geary-on-The-Avenues. Calling this development "ugly" just makes you the Nancy Grace of architectural criticism.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:03:57 +0000

What? Dude, you are totally misunderstanding me, just as I still honestly have no idea whether you were saying that LA is full of old decaying buildings or new boxy ones. I’m not being sarcastic when I am saying that I can’t tell whether you were being sarcastic.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:49:37 +0000

“ASCII IS SO TONEDEAF.”

And yet, one would normally assume that you are capable of deriving meaning from sentences in written English as displayed in books and newspapers. Blaming The Web for your resistance to any opinion that conflicts with yours is lame.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:42:26 +0000

I’m not exactly sure what you’re saying here. Are you being sarcastic? ASCII IS SO TONEDEAF. Is LA full of old decaying buildings, or new boxy ones?

All I know is that the buildings proposed here are U-G-L-Y ugly.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:48:06 +0000

Oh, give me a break! Try living in Los Angeles and see how you like all the nice, new buildings.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:34:06 +0000

Oh god, that’s even worse than the original proposal. Dear lord that is horrendous.

By: Jenner Davis

Jenner Davis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:25:01 +0000

I second that emotion. All these new condo buildings kill me a little every day.

By: BT

BT — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:18:40 +0000

Some foodies aren’t about cooking at all–they worship raw food. But I thought the Mission (and San Francisco) was about “to each his own” and that would include “foodies”.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:14:37 +0000

…foodies are to cooking as groupies were to music-making. It’s all about the blow jobs.

By: BT

BT — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:59:16 +0000

And “foodies” deserve no respect because . . . ?

By: BT

BT — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:56:10 +0000

You are lucky to have lived in something modern and this nice in college. Probably went to a publicly-funded school. I went to an expensive private eastern university and lived in a dorm that was pseudo-Georgian on the outside, ultra-bare/basic and cramped on the inside (’cause they took the “poor student” thing seriously 100 years ago when they built it).

By: Hellarad

Hellarad — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:22:18 +0000

20% is better than 12%. More goodness. In many ways we should feel lucky to have it.

By: Hellarad

Hellarad — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:18:27 +0000

Agreed

By: Hellarad

Hellarad — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:16:11 +0000

Weirdo musicians are now making music on laptops.