In the spirit of the upcoming holidays, the Mockitecture WebLog has designed a series of Christmas cards! A collection of beautifully photographed modernist buildings have been unnecessarily decorated with festive holiday ornaments. Mies' Seagram Building is topped with a monumental santa hat - and a minimal "clip art" santa hat, at that! You're welcome, Mies.
Below, Mies' Farnsworth House is cluttered with - among other things - an extra-large inflatable Santa Claus. It's quite surprising how unrecognizable the building looks under all of that applied ornament. While designing this image, I came to the realization that high modernist buildings make fantastic decorated sheds. Their simply pure forms are essentially blank canvasses for the artist to attack. Perhaps in the near future we will all be adaptively reusing minimalist glass and steel frame Miesian buildings into neon-clad hot dog stands? I can only hope so...
I digress. Next, a view of the Western Approach Car Park in Plymouth (Devon County, UK). In this surreal scene, massive candy cane columns emerge out of the top deck of the brutalist parking structure. Meanwhile, Santa is desperately clinging to a rope (detail photo at bottom) presumably because parking garages are lacking chimneys - which happen to be Mr. Claus' most comfortable form of egress.
Upon further research, I have discovered this is the lowest priced car park in Plymouth and is located adjacent to a Toys R Us! Perhaps Santa was stealing borrowing toys? As for the candy cane columns, I think they should be added to all brutalist buildings during the holidays. How could you disagree!?
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