Donut Shop Architecture is Not a Subject for Mockery
I invite you to peruse the neo-modernist facade of Dykeman's headquarters for the Krispy Kreme company. They have met the challenge of the modernist donut-shop in the corporate context.
They also have designed donut shops that are not of the headquarters. I think this is architecture of which all Americans can be proud:
The work of Dykeman is good, it is no wonder so many people wish to live in the "Seattle" to shop in the grocery stores and drink coffee in the cafes. But once again, I must award the highest prize to the old masters:
posted by Latouche at Large at 8:17 PM
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I donut mock - Top Pot is a beautiful building as well as a donut heaven.
Of course, Randy's donuts is not to be undervalued-nor I insist, is the Daily Dozen, which is the greatest of all, a small booth in Pike Place Market, with punk rockers flinging tiny hot donuts in the air into popped bags.
But I have been in one of these KK donut mansions - there's one here, and it is pleasant but charmless, sterile, vast, and overbright, just like the sort of thing a formerly overly cash rich national corporation would build- vaguely retro but without resolve, like Grand Theft Auto
version of a Donut shop.
The effect of Top Pot is entirely different: it was sleek, welcoming, stylish and warm the day it opened, because of the attention to detail, and to careful use of building materials. It is honestly romantic in it's love of the style, ironically an anethma to the ideology of that orginal style. It reminds me of nothing so much as the old Loussac Library in Anchorage, which was of course coldly destroyed, but with fantastic donuts.
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