Slog - Comments on Association: Part One http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one Let's begin our day-long journey of linked images here: This remarkable building, Whitechapel Idea Store, is in London and has its origin in the mind of this gentleman: ...David Adjaye.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:49:30 -0800 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:21:41 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Greg At least it isn't Frank Gehry. God, I hate that dick.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860206 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860206 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:02:50 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV It's a non-monochromatic box.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860228 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860228 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:37:23 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Gehry does suck. Why is the ego of an architect typically so much larger than that of an engineer, or even most artists'.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860236 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860236 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:42:53 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Oops ^^^ should close with a "?"

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860239 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:43:39 -0800 Comment by Issur Charles thanks for this post. As usual your architecture writing is erudite, insightful and brilliant. Seattle is lucky to have a genius like you. You are a local treasure. Your Urban perspective makes living in this racist hicksville a little more tolerable. Mazel Tov!

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860265 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860265 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:00:23 -0800 Comment by jz whitechapel, of course, is the former london slum where the jack the ripper murders took place.

]]> jz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860282 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860282 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:15:12 -0800 Comment by e1 & one of the Kray twins shot a man in the pub just down the road. Whitechapel's awesome.

]]> e1 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860287 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860287 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:23:17 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Oh, for chrissake. An "idea store" is a local council's "rebranding" of what used to be called a "public library". No, really. They have a "strategy document"! It's full of classically British typographical errors and solecisms, too, and probably cost a million pounds -- not for the libraries, for the document.

I guess this is what happens when former slums see a massive influx of new wealth, and council tax rates go up out of all proportion to need or sense. Where's OUR Idea Stores?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860289 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860289 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:25:08 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV It's a box.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860294 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:30:10 -0800 Comment by unPC yup modern egotechture is just shiny, glassy, concrete-y boxes.

A celebration of the rectangle.

Of course if you line up all these projects nex to each other the streetscape will look like hell.

They are designed to live in perpetuity as a photo separate from the environment, gracing the walls ofthe office of the super egotecht who designed them.

Yes this includes the downtown library which insults the street on 3 or 4 sides. Harsh, cold, not vey usable and not part of a coherent livable streetscape(look at the Brooklyn home, they are crazy to have such big windows in NYC).

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860340 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860340 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:24:56 -0800 Comment by lawrence clark You're right Charles, that is one the most remarkably ugly buildings I can recall ever seeing. What an incredible eyesore! Good eye!

Is the roofline finished, or have they just started gutting it?

]]> lawrence clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860486 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860486 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:36:27 -0800 Comment by Abby I like the new Contemporary Art Museum in Denver he designed, even though it was just barely open (and still had a few unfinished bit) when I saw it.

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860536 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/association_part_one#c860536 Arts Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:21:41 -0800