Keep wishing...

what unbelievably bad feng shui those balconies are....

As RELIGION SUCKS would wisely say:

"Architecture sucks. Architects suck. Especially when they design churces. Which are for religion. Which sucks. Wipe your ass with the Torah and piss on Christ. Architecture is a farce."

maybe not these shards, but at least some thing interesting . . . pushing form beyond boxes. all we have are mass upon mass upon mass. atleast there is a void created between each of those prow/balconies (not to mention the space between the two arms of the V).

Once again: the most important thing is not the architecture of the building but the setting in which it is placed. This building appears to be set in the middle of a million acres of featureless concrete plaza. Double plus ungood. I've been to Copenhagen, and I didn't see ANYPLACE there this ugly except from the train window in from the airport.

Radically rational? Those balconies are so much more rational than normal ones that they offer less usable space, less privacy, and cost far more!

Only a European attitude toward public space could make the crazy-quilt eccentricity of this building really come alive. In the US it would look like it actually does, which is, like shit.

I live about a five-minute bike ride from these things, and while they indeed rock out with their cock out, they're in the middle of a sterile, fauxhemian yuppie neighborhood, just like the gentrified plots in Seattle. CPH probably isn't as bad as back home, but we have really boring, lame developments here, too.

Rottin - There might be a good chance that the boring, lame developments where you are are being made by the same jerks who are making boring, lame developments everywhere else! I suspect that there are maybe 3 different corporate conglomerates that compete with eachother and make money like this... no real facts to back this up, just a hunch.

Looks like something from a Lynch movie. What do you mean it looks like shit, Grant Cogswell? Why would the same building look different in a different country, U.S. Don't you like the U.S., Grant Cogswell. Isn't it pretty and sublime? Isn't it wonderful? Oh, I think it is. Why just look downtown. There is the central library, shimmering with blue. And near, upon the hill, the artwork of O'Neil. You are most beguiling, Grant Cogswell. But so are you, Charles Mudede. And your crazy buildings with you.

fnarf,

the photos are of a construction site.