The decorated shed isn't what it used to be, its visage now as banal as its skin and bones. The promiscuous repetition of the big-box store has homogenized the commercial strip. Today's "ugly and ordinary" is harder to love. To make matters worse, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's seminal Best Products Catalog Showroom (1978) is a shadow of its former self. Its joyfully flowered panels—inspired by the wallpaper in the architects' own bedroom-are gone. The original steel-and-concrete structure is now wrapped in a reflective-glass skin. It's still a generic loft, but it is no longer a decorated shed. And the world is poorer for it.
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机译：装修过的棚屋已不再是以前的样子了，它的容貌现在像它的皮肤和骨头一样平淡。大卖场商店的乱七八糟的重复使商业条带均匀化。如今的“丑陋与平凡”更难被爱着。更糟糕的是，罗伯特·文图里（Robert Venturi）和丹妮丝·斯科特·布朗（Denise Scott Brown）开创性的“最佳产品目录陈列室”（1978）掩盖了其前身。由建筑师自己卧室里的墙纸启发而来的，开满鲜花的镶板消失了。原来的钢筋混凝土结构现在包裹在反光玻璃蒙皮中。它仍然是普通鸽舍，但不再是装饰棚。世界为此而贫穷。
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