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decorated shed

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noun

Architecture.

  1. a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.

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“I Am a Monument” was a decorated shed.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2018

It is, in Venturi's famous phrase, a "decorated shed."

From Time Magazine Archive

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