This is a rendering I just finished of a restaurant in Chicago.
(Polychromos on board and a little Photoshop)
I love the stonework on this building. It got me thinking about how much I love buildings like this, and how much I loathe suburban strip mall/shopping center kinds of architecture.
Take banks, for example. Remember when they looked like this?
The marble, the tall ceilings, the sound of your heels clicking on the tile floor and that kind of hollow echoey sound of everything bouncing off all that stonework.
Now, I do my banking in the little branch adjacent to Starbucks, or the one inside the supermarket. Don't get me wrong ~ I love the convenience. But on all other levels its a wholly unsatisfying experience. An example of the cheapening of everything in our society. The 'fast-fooding up' of everything.
I'm having a serious craving for some serious old fashioned quality. Brunch at the Palace Hotel. Shopping or banking someplace where they address you as "Miss" or "Ma'am", where you don't have to look at people in gym clothes or flip flops and people aren't shouting into cell phones. Oh, I could go on. And on. And on.
But I have some illustrations to draw and the clock is ticking so I will step down from my soap box and put a stopper in my little rant for now.
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By: Paula Pertile,
on 10/2/2007
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