Comments on Hyper-Kentucky

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.

Inelegant, deconstructionist trash.

Yick.

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..

The Thais have taste.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like what James Howard Kunstler had to say about it.

" 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."

Amichel, we think alike. It was Kunstler's Eyesore of the Month in March 2006.

What the fuck?

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.