The ‘decoration’ of the Havana airport terminal causes ‘horror’ among Cuban designers and architects.

A new one Colonial style decoration From terminal number three Jose Marti International Airport It has generated criticism among the Cuban people both inside and outside the island of Havana. After images shared on social networks by a user identified as Charlie’s Blog.

The person behind the profile Facebook postApparently with a knowledge of architecture and design, he asked himself, “How can some of the critics I’ve reviewed on this blog improve their aesthetic taste if they have a mirror of their behavior?” How to like it Designers and Architects If order makers do abuses like I show you today at Havana International Airport, are these people an example?

How can we tell foreigners coming down those stairs that we are a developing country and that we graduate with dozens of design professionals every year? How can we say that our children have no heritage and that what is left is a cheap copy of someone else’s heritage?

Similarly, he lamented the use of “artificial plants, waterproof stained glass windows, cardboard carpentry, plasticine tiles, disproportionate props”.

It’s just that we don’t copy well. I am ashamed to say to foreigners that I am an architect.. But hey … I’ll find a Papier-Mch Eiffel Tower when I come to France, “he concluded confusedly.

How awful! Cover the stereo lattice with false ceiling and border the bathroom with flowers! They are incredible!“, Commented architect Adriana Gallup Martinez.

And the architect Maria Carla Ojeda Arizo“Such actions demonstrate the relevance and necessity of the work of architects and designers.”

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“How long must we tolerate bad taste and pathetic set designs that do nothing but show the degradation of our environment?”He added.

According to designer Daniel Gerres This is about “Cuba Neo-Sismo”When other users have made a deposit Hope this is only a “temporary thing” Or a montage to “cover” some other work.

Esmond Harmon

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