Skeuomorphism has been used in architectural design since Doric order Greek temples’ stone triglyphs and guttae mimicked the joinery of the wooden temples that preceded them. Thomas Heatherwick’s Lantern House animates the industrial context with a simplistic metaphor to produce a baroque entry into the “looks-like” canon—building as bay window writ large.
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