Check out that building. The picture may not do it justice, but it is a stunningly unique architectural feat. The unconventional angels, the giant gills perforating the rounded exterior, the elevated patio, the blocklike components stacked on the roof like Legos...some serious creativity went into the design of this building.
Is this what our culture has come to? I can imagine that a respected architect was commissioned to design this building. Maybe it was originally intended to be a museum, or a gallery, or some sort of cultural center.
And then, when whatever it used to be didn't make enough money, it was quickly reformatted to sell something Americans really want: bacon and cheese sandwiches with fried chicken patties for buns.
Good sense of appreciation of the architectural details .Times do change the function of a building but the fact that it still stands out and displays it character is a testimony to its greatness.
ReplyDeletedo i detect a hint of contempt towards the double down? choose your next words very carefully my friend. this masterpiece is obviously an abstracted bucket and attempts to strike a difficult balance between the all too familiar logos of its populist product and the lingering memory of constructivism's early experiments in creating a new social iconography. jerk.
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--This Kentucky Fried Chicken was designed by Jeffrey Daniels in 1990. Daniels worked for Frank Gehry from 1978-1980 and Gehry's influence is visible here in this abstracted bucket. For more
http://www.danielsarchitects.com/rest_kfc_1.html
This KFC was originally a KFC. It was a small, single story building and made a ton of money from a large church across the street because in the 1980's that area had few choices to eat that was walking distance. They remodeled it into this in 1990.
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