伪豪宅
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伪豪宅相对于真正的豪宅是以廉价建材和手工大量建造再以高价销售的住宅,其内外的装潢都被设计师和媒体批评为庸俗浮夸,甚至违反实用和审美将不搭调的建筑元素东拼西凑[1]。
美国
在美国,用来标签伪豪宅的时髦名词“McMansion”(麦豪宅)始见于1980年代媒体以形容市郊住宅区那些占地庞大的低俗大宅[2],其后迅速被主流媒体如洛杉矶时报[3][4]和纽约时报[5]借用。这个新词相信是结合了连锁快餐厅麦当劳各餐的开头“Mc(麦)”和“Mansion(宅邸)”以讽刺这些住宅的质素如同快餐般低廉[6]。
香港
在香港,伪豪宅亦指那些为了钻建筑条例漏洞却违反实用原则设计、或面积极为细小却包装成豪宅推销的住宅,这类图则(平面图)被香港媒体戏称为“奇则”,取广东话“奇迹”的谐音。
参考资料
- ^ McMansion Hell Around the World: Where and Why Do We Build McMansions. McMansion Hell. Tumblr. 2017-01-24 [2017-07-01]. (原始内容存档于2019-04-15).
- ^ An example from Braces, gym suits, and early-morning seminary: a youthquake survival manual (1985) by Joni Winn [Hilton]: "The McMansion, by the way, is really just the largest house in the neighborhood"
- ^ Book Review: Search for Environmental View of Design, Review of 'Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape', by Michael Hough Yale University Press. Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1990. "What character their history and ecology might offer is being strip-mined to make way for anonymous residential projects, monolithic office towers, climate-controlled retail complexes of questionable design and awkward transportation systems—all in the abused name of progress. We are talking here of the march of mini-malls and 'McMansions.'"
- ^ Interiors; Getting Smart About Art of Living Small. Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1998. "The size of the average new single-family home has gone from 1,520平方英尺(141平方米) in 1971 to 2,120平方英尺(197平方米) in 1996, according to '1998 Housing Facts, Figures and Trends,' published by the National Assn. of Home Builders. 'But not everyone is living in a McMansion or aspires to it," said Gale Steves, editor of Home Magazine". "Every time we do a small house in the magazine, there is lots of mail."
- ^ Cheever, Benjamin - Close to home; Life in a Crater Will Do, For Now. New York Times, August 27, 1998. "Twenty mansions were planned for the development, each designed to look like the biggest house in town. The McMansion we thought of as ours had an enormous kitchen, more than two stories high."
- ^ McFedries, Paul. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins. Alpha Books. 2008: 99. ISBN 978-1-59257-781-1.