The choice that all readers of the site have is to move onto the next post on the site and onto another project that appeals to them . The best analogy I can make is that the site is like a box of chocolates and one will generally choose a chocolate they like from the box and enjoy it as opposed to complaining that the chocolate that they dislike shouldn’t be in the box.

Of course we edit this :)

I think that ArchDaily should also feature architecture that is not considered “astonishing”. These buildings can also teach something. Maybe not to you, but i´m very sure that it will to someone.

As you said, a printed publication might not feature this. But we are not a printed magazine, or a magazine turned into a website. We are a community of architects discussing and sharing. I’ve had enough praising HdM/OMA/etc on the printed magazines attracting dust in my room. And i think you are also tired of that.

In the future we should all confine our praise for mediocrity and save the ire for that which happens to be anything other. That is innovative thinking.

Here I was foolishly thinking that the equitable and kind proposition was to not just publish projects willy nilly but rather to actually edit the content of the site. Thus you would be less inclined to have to avert your eyes from the uninformed sans experience of kitchen remodeling.

This is a decent project and we can all learn a thing or two from practically any project showcased in this website.

This project is home remodeling. It may have been done by a licensed architect, but the scope of the project is not really architectural in any way. That is not a judgement about size because a bus shelter can be spectacular architecture. For lack of a better definition I suppose the point revolves around the aspirations of the architect and the client. Is this a collaboration in the interest of defining new spaces or is it enclosing the garage to make create a boudoir for the missus?

If this were a print magazine about architecture the odds of this project being included would be astronomical. The owners would exercise some degree of editorial control and try to provide content of interest to their readers. The rules of the internet seem different, but they aren’t. Posting this kind of material is a losing proposition.

Finally, it has to be awfully painful for anyone to have posted this and then read the subsequent commentary; nearly universally brutal. It is no kindness to publish material that might have an audience in a home remodeling blog on a site with serious architectural pretensions. What exactly is the expected result?

God forbid my recipe for trailer-park tuna casserole should ever make it into Gourmet magazine. Tuna casserole is a guilty pleasure best enjoyed with people who appreciate it for what it is.

greets
Sander