Pharrell Williams’s and Chad Oppenheim’s Ice Cream City accused of copy-catting.

In October,  Pharrell Williams and  architect Chad Oppenheim released drawings for their  ”Ice Cream City,” a new urban fun center in Miami’s rundown Overtown neighborhood. But one of Ice Cream City’s buildings — a large box housing a Target — looked a little too familiar: specifically,  like  Jakob+MacFarlane‘s Orange Cube in Lyon, France.  Both designs were  bright orange, had a web-like scrim, and featured a large hole cut from one corner. Oops!

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