John Young wrote:
Disclaimer: I'm a licensed professional, but not for anything ever discussed here,
What, never? Well, hardly ever... I hereby invalidate your claim for ever by moaning, off-topically, about the spread through England of supermarkets and shopping malls in neo-vernacular industrial yellow brick with colonnades of semi-circular arches and lots of exposed metalwork painted in primary colours, that look like a cross between an early C19 railway shed, a C5 Roman military stables and something you might knock up un a few minutes with a decent Lego set. Once they were pleasant to the eye, now they are a clichi. And also by asking if such things are ever seen in North America? (after all you aren't short of sub-Norman-Shaw large private houses and educational buildings & that is one of the origins of this consciously anti-contemporary style) Ken I-am-not-a-professional-I-am-a-working-man Brown :-)