A relatively new building in Ajman, UAE, that I see every day when I return to my hotel. It resembles Graves’s Portland building and the rest of the post-modern grotesque architectural nonsense. I wonder who decided to paint the plane that way and, if it was about getting the most of a boring façade by means of cheap paint, why not go crazy about it? Why not a super-billboard, or a ten-story high mosaic with the portrait of the Sharjah Sheikh Al Quissimi? Buildings in Sharjah have acceptable prismatic proportions and perforation rhythms, they are usually anonymous except they tend to have a statement of sorts, formal, ornamental or painted like in this case.
As long as it does not come with anything even remotely close to the postmodernist rhetoric…
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