Ok, I'm an architect and not that my opinion matters more than anyone's else's, but the hotel looks a thousand times better than before. I agree with the LA Times that it won't win any design awards but jeez. What's up with folks in LA always wanting to hold on to blah design and shabbiness? Is it mostly for sentimental reasons?
It is so funny he brought up that LA is "always wanting to hold on to...for sentimental reasons." If it's one thing I learned in my Cluster, it is that Los Angeles is a historyless place. People do want a history I guess, but the history they want is never the history they actually had. So they make it up. Historicism.
Okay, so even though this person's comment was ironic, it holds up true, I guess. Never mind. I was almost going to bash him. He nailed it, actually.
By the way, this was from Curbed LA. They were critiquing David Geffen's renovating some Malibu hotel. David Geffen! My hero! However, some person said something along the lines of "maybe Geffen should burn in the Mailbu fires too." And I'm like, say what? Are you from New York hating on an admirable and rich LA-centrist?
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