What is most striking about the façade is its effort to erase itself. Sand-colored stucco and beige-brown panels suppress ornament. The building doesn’t assert presence—it recedes into corporate anonymity. This is not absence, but a programmed blandness: the architecture of acquiescence.
The golden arch—a flattened “M,” disarticulated from any material i…
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