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comment by sounds_sound
sounds_sound  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Where are you from?

At the risk of being pedantic tng, that building you've pointed out isn't 'Modern', because Modern in the architectural sense is a particular movement and style that occurred at a particular time. The word you want to use here is contemporary. That's my lesson for the day :)





thenewgreen  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's funny that you say that, when I wrote it I was almost certain that I was using the wrong terminology and that someone would point out the correct. I was also almost certain that it would be you :-)

Complexity  ·  4097 days ago  ·  link  ·  

At the risk of being even more pedantic, thenewgreen's use of modern to signify contemporary in this instance is perfectly fine, sounds_sound . Had he intended to refer to the movement itself he could have said 'modernist' or capitalised it to 'Modern'.