Architecture More Than This
posted by on June 29 at 13:32 PM
This is a new fire station in Mexico City:
Designed by at. 103 Architects, the Ave Fenix fire station in Mexico City is architecture that has the power to turn a critic into a poet, a praise poet. The way the heroes of the ancient world needed poets to see and recount their great deeds and victories, buildings like this need griots to sing words of wonder, amazement, and praise. Look at this fire station! Just look at it! This is what thought can do; what a great idea can become. What more do you want than this? There is nothing more than this.
Looks like a freakin' Target from the outside...
WTF IS WRONG WITH MEXICO THAT THEY SPEND THIS MONEY ON FIREHOUSES WHEN THE BIGGER FIRE IS THEIR CRAP ECONOMY?
I say Yikes! because this is also looks only a step away from these guys designing a prison.
wow.
#2 - You could just as easily ask, WTF is the problem with the U.S. that they spend this money on prisons when the bigger problem is their unsustainable infrastructure that will fold like a house of cards when gas hits $10 a gallon?
Why do some Americans make simplistic judgements about other countries they would never get outside the box enough to make about their own?
Shiny boxes. Yawn.
Charles Muendes architecture criterea, as determined from his posts on the subject so far:
1) Boxes only
2) NO MUSLIMS!
Charles - no one understands you but poets and architects. C'est la vie and welcome to my world. Thank you for you insight and appreciation of design.
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