The rounded corners of the stucco bank building violate the latent centers of a corner, destroying structure and creating ugliness.

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• The bank building's entrance, windows, and base were not unfolded from the site, rendering the building dysfunctional and ugly.claim0.807
  Further analysis of bank building.
• Human beings can violate the tendency to preserve wholeness either by acting disrespectfully toward it or by failing to perceive it accurately, which explains why modern buildings often lack living structure.claim0.753
  Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency
• An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.claim0.747
  Alexander's assertion that judgments about whether interventions preserve wholeness are structural and mathematical rather than subjective or romantic.
• Compartmentalization and refusal to allow processes to unfold in the right order had negative impact on the shape, form, cost, and life of major buildings.claim0.741
  Summary of the Mary Rose Museum and Frankfurt housing cases, asserting that inappropriate sequences damage building quality.
• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.737
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• The problem of structure-destroying transformations applies both to a building's relation to its surroundings and to the interior structure of the building itself.claim0.728
  Scope of the problem.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.725
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.723
  Historical shift.