Why did America lose its mojo?

>>212240075 (OP)
thats sad...

>>212240075 (OP)
WE DON'T LIVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE (15 cents what the hell, boomers did not suffer)

>>212240075 (OP)
people stopped having big families (kids)

all countries have lost their mojo and it's no accident.
flat design is a conspiracy to keep the people depressed and docile.

>>212240075 (OP)
mcdonalds was heavily under criticism from targeting at children, pressure was so intense that mcdonalds changed itself to become a soulless company.

>>212240075 (OP)
>90s
kids want to eat there
>00s
families want to eat there
>20s
nigs want to eat there

Even advertising has gotten worse since then, compare this
https://youtu.be/uDUdoQY3GYc?si=qJVjn2CG1-5ppXmA
to this
https://youtu.be/Kqqo4XheSzE?si=A8KBKRiRFUjwoh0g

>>212240574
>mcdonalds changed itself to become a soulless company.
The intention was to make the locations appear more high end (families are a shrinking demographic, let's attract customers from Starbucks etc.), but yes the end result is soulless.
Whats interesting is that people back in the 1980s made the exact same observation about Mcdonalds (where did the futurism and the neon-lit golden arches go? what is up with these soulless little buildings with the red mansard roof?)
Who knows, we might actually look back with fondness at even the current design in the future when these locations become fully automated kiosks.

>>212240075 (OP)
It's all soulless shit, nothing to VGH over

they switched from money backed by gold to fake money backed by bombing the third world. what goes around comes around, faggots.

>>212241058
>Who knows, we might actually look back with fondness at even the current design in the future when these locations become fully automated kiosks.
personally i doubt this, but who knows? your post is not wrong though.

The corporate minimalism is fading i think, the glass, grey, cream towers, millennial cityscapes, it’s dying slowly, more colorful cars, more green areas in cities, more colorful houses in styles native to the city or area

The 2000-2010s were grim grim grim when it comes to aesthetics

>>212240233
Boomers literally lived in the most prosperous time in human history for the last 1000 years.

>>212240075 (OP)
McDonalds is a real estate company and when it time to resell the property, no business wants a weird looking building.

Mass third world immigration weighs heavy on society

>>212241535
>personally i doubt this, but who knows?
I do, Hungary man is right. Current Maccas will be considered Bauhaus kino in the future.
Pic related is a World Heretige Site.

For example, the French hated the Eiffle Tower in the first few years:
'We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection ... of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower'.

>>212241811
The natural reaction to anything new and different from the French is disdain. Isn't "saying No first until you convince me to say Yes" a part of their culture?

>>212241811
realistically most of the private sector structures are only built to last 30-40 years at most and will be torn down as it is still by far cheaper to build a new building then retrofit a older building to have a longer life. this is almost guaranteed now that the new energy codes are so extremely stringent that is would be nearly possible to do a renovation higher then a certain percentage without requiring huge investments. also since so many properties are built based on rental land agreements and leases once the agreement ends it can simply be sold and torn down for great economic profit. which is why redevelopment happens in cycles and thigns arent built to last 100 years.
but like all things architecture there will be a clique that liked it and wish it was still around and a vast majority who don't particularly care and prefer to navel gaze at whatever fad is currently flaring up. seeing that in America the development industry is finally wrestling the profession of architecture out of existence with alternate contract routes and loopholes who knows what wacky things the future will hold.

>>212240574
>>212241058
>>212241671
Here come the fatalistic financial faggots "but the retail value goes down if another franchise wants to buy the land!". What a soifaggot reaction.

>>212241553
It's not going to change because devoted marketing and psychologist teams have come to the conclusion that this generate engagement (in interface settings) and agility or whatever they call it in terms of urbanism (see response above). Since the current model values profits above all other considerations this will not change.
I'm already amazed at how little design and changes have evolved for the general public since the early 2010s. The only noticeable changes are zoomers going for the Y2K fashion and some trendy magazines and services opting for the wobbly bubblegum fonts of that era, or the cream/coffee color scheme (probably to seem more soulful or whatever).

>>212240233
Fast food used to be
-fast
-cheap
-warm

I literally, unironically can't believe it

>>212240574
And now they are pandering to remote workers it seems, and it's not working

>>212242116
>and thigns arent built to last 100 years.
God bless liberal democracy.

'By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature'.
You can replace literature, in that quote, with almost anything, like architecture.