Archinect - News 2024-05-03T02:01:14-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/106866305/architecture-review-all-that-s-missing-from-shiny-sleek-citycenterdc-is-cityheartdc Architecture Review: All that’s missing from shiny, sleek CityCenterDC is CityHeartDC Alexander Walter 2014-08-18T14:14:00-04:00 >2014-08-28T10:17:06-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/78/7874e50120117f64d61fa182b849849f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Minimalism does smell a little foul these days, ever more commercial, devoted to luxury rather than simplicity, a fantasy of the globalized everywhere. It is the design ethos of a world in which you bounce around a grid of generic places, which all feel familiar because they all have the same stores, the same brands and the same basic design. If you want to look at how this fantasy manifests itself architecturally, visit CityCenterDC [...].</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>