You could also enter a store only to find that there are millions of doughnuts but they are all coated with chocolate and filled with peanut butter – something that always makes me wonder about the sense of offering so many doughnut options. For sure, if I were the ruler of the universe, everyone would be forced to only ever eat doughnuts with a rose-jam filling as well as a covering of orange peel and a little icing on a slightly crispy surface. No way would there be anything trendy like pistachios or gluten-free dough and – God forbid! – doughnuts with holes in the middle.
Similarly, if it was only up to me to decide on the forms that buildings took, the suburban view that surrounds me would be far more uniform, with every urban estate being somewhat similar to Sady Żoliborskie in Warsaw. However, I will admit that in architecture, just like with doughnuts, there’s room for crazy creativity and personal preference – if only we would generally keep to s