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Frank Gehry is probably the most distinctive architect of his generation. His buildings' sensuous curves and undulating planes puzzle and surprise, challenging our notion of how a building works.
What a dog will make of it all is anybody's guess.
I hope the dogs bite him. He (and Paul Allen) stuck that butt-ugly EMP down in Seattle Center. It looks like the Space Needle coughed up a big hairball onto 5th Ave.
I really think this project could have looked tolerable if Frank had gone with his usual brushed steel look. In a place like Seattle, where the winter months are dominated by grey skies and dark earth tones, the bright colors stick out like a fast food wrapper lying on the ground in the forest.
I'm just not down with the whole wiggly-looking building thing. I think the new library is a travesty, too. Why can't we have new buildings that don't look like someone sat on them? I picture Koohas and Gehry sitting at the bar of the Architect's Club, slapping each other on the back and giggling into their vodka tonics about the joke they've pulled on the rubes up in Seattle.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
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