StephenHero
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This is fun. But bring I guess you're supposed to crap into a coffee can.
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Ourousoff sounds like a jackass going on about "connecting to the Latino community," not to mention implying that Grand is somehow meant to be a "single, dominant, cultural hub."
This is what I thought. I know it's his job as a critic to address this all while it's still relevant, but I wonder if he has access to plans/information that the public doesn't get. I hope to god he isn't making all these claims off the same four/five renderings we see.
He does.
it is that which allows him to make jackass claims of such depth.
he wouldn't be a critic if everything he said was bright and rosy.
As commissions multiplied for luxury residential high-rises, high-end boutiques and corporate offices in cities like London, Tokyo and Dubai, more socially conscious projects rarely materialized. Public housing, a staple of 20th-century Modernism, was nowhere on the agenda. Nor were schools, hospitals or public infrastructure. Serious architecture was beginning to look like a service for the rich, like private jets and spa treatments.
Nowhere was that poisonous cocktail of vanity and self-delusion more visible than in Manhattan. Although some important cultural projects were commissioned, this era will probably be remembered as much for its vulgarity as its ambition.
Every major architect in the world, it seemed, was designing an exclusive residential building here. With its elaborate faux-graffiti barrier, Herzog & de Meuron's 40 Bond Street was among the most indulgent, but it had plenty of rivals, including projects by Daniel Libeskind, UNStudio, Mr. Koolhaas and Norman Foster.
Together these projects threatened to transform the city's skyline into a tapestry of individual greed.
Ourousoff made a point to say that none of the recent starchitect work has done much to enhance the inside of the buildings, they're all standard apartments with standard layouts encased in a fancy shell. Thoughts?
i think i heard about a Piano condo building having a 1BR-2BA option, so there. Ourousoff, wrong again.
Another thing I don't like about him is that architecture critics have a major advantage that young architects don't have in the promotion of the profession, which is the risk-free nature of criticism. He does practically nothing in his columns to promote small scale work outside of that done by established practicies, so he wastes the opportunity to alleviate some skepticism on the developer side towards the designers without much experience in building. One of the few things that critics can actually make a difference on is to help grow the workload of architects five or ten years earlier than it would take without promotion. They meed to do a better job of accelerating architects in the progression from designing conceptual projects to dog houses to actual buildings.