tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post3851989452638823313..comments2024-02-05T06:32:20.199+00:00Comments on entschwindet und vergeht: CackitectureMurphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658628800390775081noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-28409017328043016132009-02-01T18:02:00.000+00:002009-02-01T18:02:00.000+00:00Great post. Here's my response of sorts:http://so...Great post. Here's my response of sorts:<BR/><BR/>http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2009/02/une-fois-que-cest-fini.htmlECWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02142600295759704786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-24954755136198140202009-01-30T14:14:00.000+00:002009-01-30T14:14:00.000+00:00I have difficulty taking the word seriously living...I have difficulty taking the word seriously living over here in France. To hear adults say "Cacka" instead of good awd fashioned, though English I suppose, "shit", "shite" or "crap" just sounds plain wrong. And when the French equivalent of the FSTE comes on the telly the Cac 40, well, at first I thought it was Les Top des Pops in French. . . but in reverse.<BR/>Have you done a Cac 40 British Pop Music recently? Number 1. Too Shy Kajagoo - Kajapoopoo. New Order 'Love's got the World in Bowel motion' 'I turd it through the grapevine' - bah I'll shurrupstevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06964690628169966854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-63904966861457340942009-01-27T23:59:00.000+00:002009-01-27T23:59:00.000+00:00Yes, this is certainly not a project about dignity...Yes, this is certainly not a project about dignity, I agree. So the the existing building is respected by clearing out the buildings around it, and by the new building appearing to barely touch the old? I wonder if there is there a word for partially informed idiocy? Or better yet a word that describes those that claim to push forward a particular tradition, but infact totally miss its point and pervert it? To try to explain: this time atelier Hadid shows us abit of Melikov mixed with a newish retreading of the 'parasite' concept currently present in some of Londons finest architecture schools (her finger as always is on the pulse the students of digi-something). I think we can safely say that in this Hadid project the strategies of respect instead become a violation of the old building by the new. Figuratively (this is after all how the project asks us to judge it) the new appears to use the courtyard of the old as a toilet bowl. The old is humiliated by the exposure of its violation (clearing the building around it). And worse yet the new finds the old so disgusting it can barely bring itself to touch it. I believe there was once an idea that the breaking of old architectural orders is linked to the breaking of old and existing political hegemonys, but this project is more like architectural bullying. Amongst other things the project breaks the symmetry of the old only to set up the symmetry of its own body (note: what is this return to symmetry we see around us really about?). The project is a giant all seeing monster towering above you, ready to penetrate and invade you how ever it likes. Good message for a Port Authority. Nice one Zaha, oh yeah, keep the radical flag flyin'. The old building does not seem to be of any value (why would such a scheme win otherwise?), and Hadids project is much more interested in setting up a visual relationship with sleek infrastructure around it (fair enough). So better knock the old building down and get old zaha to do a one story building with an uninhabitable tower (she is after all a brilliant landscape designer). Architectural strategies of 'respect' is something that says a lot about today, abit yesterday, and I suspect abit about tomorrow.Xolas O Lobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626172539464162764noreply@blogger.com