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To: SeekAndFind

That is some kind of ugly

Is this style called:

MELTED GOTHAM

??


2 posted on 12/04/2012 4:40:40 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL
As seen from the distance...


LOOKING SOUTH

9 posted on 12/04/2012 4:47:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: GeronL

He did the Strata Center for MIT. MIT sued his ass off.

The thing was such a freak show that it was impossibly flawed with leaks and mold. Some crap just isn’t buildible with real world materials and methods.

Few want him a second time.


35 posted on 12/04/2012 7:42:01 PM PST by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years. RSC)
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To: GeronL

Yep. They build it because they can—and then get awards for it. Meanwhile millions of people have to live with that sense of disordered, overhead-crashing-down-on-them, doom.

Architecture, like art in general, lost its way and hasn’t been able to get on track for decades and decades now.


42 posted on 12/05/2012 6:27:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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