A Requiem For Art Deco Redux

I love art deco. Here are three examples of modern improvements of art deco, all from Chicago:

NBC Tower; Skidmore, Owings, and Merril (of the Sears and John Hancock towers fame); 1989

Citigroup Tower (formerly the Chicago And Northwestern Terminal Building), Helmut Jahn, 1987--note the tiered, arched entryway on the bottom right

United Terminal at O'Hare Airport, Helmut Jahn, 1987

Where did this pro-humanist aesthetic--with all of its attention to detail, craftsmanship, and ingenuity---go?

I'm Enthralled And Addicted

After recently purchasing Bioshock for my Bill Gates Anti-productivity Devise Mk 2, I had to go out and buy Bioshock 2. I love it just as much, if not better.

Here's the opening of Bioshock, in all of its (anti-)Randian, art deco, dystopian glory (note: it doesn't give anything of significance away):

Somebody Stop It!

Quick!