These buildings are just right for the excesses of post-mod… - Peter Greenaway

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These buildings are just right for the excesses of post-modernism -- decorative, frivolous -- serving to obviously excite and attract -- every feature using the architectural vocabulary freely without too much regard for serious function -- open glass atriums and shining metals and expensive and artificial marbles, zany letterings and excess neon.

Peter Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director.

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