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Jan-Werner Müller’s unfinished monument

New Statesman·Owen Hatherley·20 days ago
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Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images One of the last great moments on the old algorithmic agora of Twitter, not long before it became the proprietary far-right organising tool “X”, was the Parliaments World Cup, a knockout competition. The idea was to rank every parliament building in every independent state in the world for its architecture rather than for the politics it embodied. The range was dizzying; yes, there were plenty of imitation Capitols and Westminsters, but there was also Slovenia’s elegant International Style box, the wild, expressive futurism of Indonesia and tropical modernism from Malaysia, to name some personal favourites. Inevitably, though, the grand finale was between modernism and traditionalism – in this case, between Bangladesh and Hungary. Both parliaments are officially known as “the House of the Nation”.…

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