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<title>Slog - Comments on Hyper-Kentucky</title>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky</link>
<description>Speaking of Joshua Prince-Ramus, before leaving Koolhaas&apos;s firm, OMA, to form his own, REX, the architect managed Museum Plaza, a spectacular project that in 2010, at the cost of half a billion bucks, will stand on the banks of the Ohio River, dwarfing, dominating, defining Louisville&apos;s skyline. The design is based on an earlier proposal, The Hyperbuilding, Koolhaas made for Bangkok, Thailand, but completely failed to make the all-important leap from fantasy to reality. Koolhaas&apos;s &quot;brief, titillating brush with sci-fi,&quot; as The Hyperbuilding was called, found a home in Kentucky. The future woman over there in that white something-something, she&apos;s...</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:02:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Fnarf</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What a lovely techno-boot to grind into the face of every pedestrian. This building looks like a city-killer to me. Like all ambitious skyscraper designs, the further away you get, the better it looks. Stand right next to it and you'll want to die.</p>]]></description>
<author>Fnarf</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582778</link>
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<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:31:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Original Andrew</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Inelegant, deconstructionist trash.</p>

<p>Yick.</p>]]></description>
<author>Original Andrew</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582789</link>
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<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:41:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by City Comforts</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>And so Charles, are you praising this nonsense? If so, why? You seem to be infatuated with images of buildings but not real cities and how they effect the lives of real people..</p>]]></description>
<author>City Comforts</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582814</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582814</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:10:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by rodrigo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The Thais have taste.</p>]]></description>
<author>rodrigo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582815</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582815</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:10:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by rodrigo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>City Comforts, Mudede has steeped his brain in trendy fatuities for so many years that it may as well be floating in a jar in a locked closet. </p>]]></description>
<author>rodrigo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582822</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582822</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:15:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by charles mudede</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>City Comforts, a "yes" to the Hyperbuilding and a "not sure" for the Kentucky one. i do, however, admire how the plaza not so much dominates the future skyline but challenges it. on one side, downtown; on the other, the plaza. the many against the one. the skyline as a hegelian dialect.</p>]]></description>
<author>charles mudede</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582836</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582836</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:31:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by rodrigo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><i>i do, however, admire how the plaza not so much dominates the future skyline but challenges it. on one side, downtown; on the other, the plaza. the many against the one. the skyline as a hegelian dialect.</i></p>

<p><br />
You can get the same thrill from contemplation of the two hemispheres of that woman's ass, and have half a billion dollars left to spend on dinner and a movie.     </p>]]></description>
<author>rodrigo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582843</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582843</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:39:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by amichel</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I like what James Howard Kunstler had to say about it.</p>

<p>"   Can you fail to be impressed by the malignant stupidity of this building proposed for downtown Louisville, the 61-story Museum Plaza,designed by Rem Koolhaas's Office of Metropolitan Architecture? It violates everything that we can reasonably expect about the energy-scarce future -- most particularly the poor prospects for running skyscrapers and megastructures. But even if that were not an issue, and even on its own terms, what a monstrous thing this is! Its attitude to its urban context -- just off Louisville's Main Street -- is so disrespectful that the context is left out altogether in the rendering above. You'd think all that remained of Louisville a few years from now is a post-atomic-blast hardpan desert. Indeed, the aim of all Koolhaas's work has been to confound our expectations about how the city and its buildings ought to work, and to find ever more innovative ways to make people uncomfortable, while doing everything possible to disregard the public realm. Is it not evident by now that the cutting edge of architecture is a razor blade poised against our society's own throat."<br />
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<author>amichel</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582846</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582846</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:44:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by rodrigo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Amichel, we think alike. It was Kunstler's <a href="http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_200603.html" rel="nofollow">Eyesore of the Month in March 2006</a>.</p>]]></description>
<author>rodrigo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582849</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582849</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:48:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by MarKS</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What the fuck?</p>]]></description>
<author>MarKS</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582978</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c582978</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:25:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Morgan</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>It's not necessarily energy inefficient, it could be a green design for all we know, it reduces the need for artificial light by mazimizing surface area, creates shade to compensate for cooling costs, and creates the illusion of musical notes or amplification read-outs on the skyline - every city needs music. I like it.</p>]]></description>
<author>Morgan</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c583413</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/hyper_kentucky#c583413</guid>
<category>Architecture</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:39:40 -0800</pubDate>
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