Accidentally slipping into the sky

The Marriott Hotel tucked behind the big cheese grater of the City Center seems to shimmer and disappear into alternate space time. In the foreground the underwater effect of multiple reflections washes the face of the bank. The effect of modernism on the post modern city experience is deconstruction of surfaces, multiplication of reflections, doubling of windows as mirrors and skins. The solid stone buildings are rendered insensible by the mechanical repetition of meaningless detail, while the glass buildings liquify and flow, or evaporate into the very clouds themselves. It induces anxiety in the simple mammal. We are simple mammals. And anxious when we look up from our shoe tops, here in the city.

I want to think that the powers who have provided these unsettling vistas meant well. It seemed like a good idea at the time, right?