but she’s a girl says; ..I rather like the brashness of it, for no reason that I can really justify. I normally hate brash buildings, but the bullring seems to be so ugly that it sort of passes out the other side and becomes attractive. Like a warthog. Nice. A warthog in chain mail perhaps?
Whilst there’s plenty I dislike about the Bullring shopping centre, I should point out that the linear mall that stretches across the site is actually quite successful. The proportions are good and the voids between floors make for good views across the different levels. From a couple of places you can also see parts of …
As I pressed the send button on my ftp program for this entry, my ArchNewsNow e-mail landed simultaneously in my inbox. It points me to Whatever happened to Canadian understatement? by Hugh Pearman.
Will Alsop’s modelling department must get through a helluva lot of cocktail sticks.
Apart from the fact that documents like the one I’m about to quote are beginning to state the blindingly obvious, it’s also becoming necessary to talk them up their importance a little: This appendix to the B_ S_ Housing Market Renewal Prospectus sets out the strategic design strategies that will help deliver these objectives on …
A couple of weeks ago I posted some entries that included a mention of something called ‘this building’ and then ‘that building’. I should explain that the building in question was the new Selfridges store by Future Systems. I had an entry about it written on my PDA, but a clumsy battery replacement wiped it …
Quick, somebody call the RSPCA*. Libeskind is flogging that one-trick pony again. * Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals/Architecture
Just fixed the broken link in the exactly what I do on a daily basis comment. Click away.
Just a quick note to point out that there is further discussion of the design codes and the implications of Prince Charles’ carbuncle speech in this weeks copy of Building Design (subscription required). There’s a history of the Prince’s Foundation’s influence and it includes a comment about how West 8’s project in Borneo and Sporenburg …
I am, according to John Massengale at Veritas et Venustas, a schmuck. Of course I understood this was derogatory, but I was inspired to look it up. Originally, schmuck meant decoration or ornament in German. It’s easy to see how that would become a word for jewelry, but what about the other meaning? In Yiddish …