It's a Hoax!
In design, the temporary is so contemporary
Some architects are playing up the idea of impermanence, perhaps underscoring the changeability of our times and town.
By Christopher Hawthorne, Times Architecture Critic
SOME curious news, with images to match, began bouncing around the Internet last month: A Paris firm called Serero Architects had been chosen to design a temporary viewing platform for the Eiffel Tower, to mark the landmark's 120th birthday next year. Online, a few commentators complained that the mushroom-shaped platform would ruin the tower's tapered profile. Others pointed out that the original structure was never meant to be permanent anyway.
That back-and-forth soon came to a quick halt:
Word came from Eiffel Tower officials announced that they'd be building no such addition, temporary or otherwise. It was less a hoax than a Web-fueled misunderstanding. Serero Architects, it turned out, had decided on its own to produce the design for a platform; after the firm posted images on its website, bloggers and news outlets began re-posting them, suggesting that the project was actually in the works. It was a story about temporary architecture that was itself temporary, written in the HTML version of invisible ink.
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