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It is me or this last rendering is quite sad ? (go ahead, say it ...)

Recalls this one, similar typology, different proportions, X-TU Architects : Anouk Legendre + Nicolas Desmazieres - http://www.x-tu.com/ Paris University-Chemistry building-France Completion - 2008 Photos - Vincent Fillon, http://www.unregard.net/ (Sorry "interchange42" )

Hello, I know that this can sound provocative but I can’t stop myself to notice that the “high disdain for spectacle “has a strong “moral order†nuance, a quasi-religious ideological content that I don’t think has a place in civic-urban life. Is more a disdain of quality or disdain of...

Well, for that time he was novelty (as part of a broad movement in the arts, and in politics). And, yes, if we are focusing on his worst, his work has been tarred with the brush of sameness. Internal, multi-layered contradictions are the nature (and beauty) of architecture and of reality. A...

I would say that the quest for novelty shapes and architectural spectacle has been a common approach with buildings since the beginning of civilisation. Le Corbusier was “car crash design†at his time. What I am saying is that the language is reflecting the reality and viceversa. Limiting one...

True, the writer quoted the architect (who quoted the client) but both of them adapted the expression to their use, creating a stereotype on the way. As far as I know they mainly refer to the ROM building. Deconstructivist architecture has a very strong cultural foundation, like it or not...

I don`t know if somebody would read this but I couldn’t resist making a short comment on the “car crash design†syntagma. I feel that this kind of descriptions can only hurt a discussion on city, urban, buildings quality, city life quality by its triviality or superficiality. The same as...

It is strange for me to make such an antagonic distinction between the "working" building and the "beautifull" building. The symbolic and the esthetic are main functions of a building (any building, house, shop, public toilet etc.) same as the circulation and loading. Even more for a cultural...

I guess, it is difficult to find a slogan is because it is hard to define the city`s character. Why not make the city first and the slogan will come by itself. Working the content first, add the make-up later, rather than viceversa.

Montreal has a quality historical architecture and urban development and a quality contemporary architecture and urban development. It`s about quality; Toronto doesn`t have nor the historical one neither the contemporary one. The political, economical, architectural mentality it`s not there...