Slog - Comments on For Once http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1 This might be the first Gehry building that's worth something: It certainly doesn't look like something that crawled out of the sea and died.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:53:36 -0800 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:50:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by michael strangeways no, it looks like it crawled out of his ass and died...

they all look the same.

Another candidate for the Overrated Hall of Fame.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904374 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904374 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:02:13 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe That would be a pretty cool Elementary School.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904378 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904378 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:06:09 -0800 Comment by conium Yeah but have you seen his beach house to end all beach houses?

]]> conium http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904380 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:06:27 -0800 Comment by kim yeah and it'll look right at home on the princeton campus.

]]> kim http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904384 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904384 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:08:53 -0800 Comment by jayme my friend and i just drove past that today and thought 'what the hell is that doing on the campus, and what will it be for?' #4 is right, it certainly won't fit w/ most of the building on campus, but at least it is interesting-looking.

]]> jayme http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904388 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904388 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:12:10 -0800 Comment by ddv too bad we are still waiting around for CM post that is worth something...

ddv

]]> ddv http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904394 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:13:42 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV No Charles, it doesn't.

It looks like something that might have collided over Corona, California, hit a Chevy dealership, and died.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904401 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904401 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:19:35 -0800 Comment by Cale it kind of looks like a fish that came up and died on red square at uw.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904402 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:21:41 -0800 Comment by unPC It's shiny, check.
It's steel colored, check.
It's trapezoidal, check.
It has big blank walls, check.
The pieces of it don't fit together or look like a "building," check.
The Golden Mean is nowhere to be found, there is no clear "entrance" and there is no symmetry, check.

Therefore, voila! It's a work of genius!

This will soon displace UVa rotunda/quad as the no. 1 example of university architecture in the USA.
We will all buy the framed print and put it over the mantelpiece.

Movies will be filmed in front of it; it will inspire a whole genre that is copied around the world.

Just like that Bilbao museum, the EMP, and our own Central Library.

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904404 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904404 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:22:32 -0800 Comment by max solomon do i detect hints of rigor & tectonics?

not frank et al's worst.

not as bad as this, either:
http://kunstler.com/eyesore.html

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904407 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:24:14 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball The warming aspect of brick -- and so much of it -- is an interesting change from the usual Gehry work. And I LOVE that shot of the all-brick, skewed massing.

But I'm no fan of that banding that runs so relentlessly on the metalwork. It looks like aluminum siding. I like his seamless surfaces far better.

At any rate, I'd love to be inside the fucker during a hailstorm.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904454 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904454 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:51:47 -0800 Comment by *gong* re: 3) conium

HAHAHAHAH!!! That thing looks like the Disco Taco Time on 45th in Wallingford.

]]> *gong* http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904459 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:55:23 -0800 Comment by *gong* re: 3) conium

My bad. It's the next door neighbor of the escher-meets-flinstones house.

]]> *gong* http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904461 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:56:29 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Yes, but it was much nicer looking before it collapsed into the jumble you see there now.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904473 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904473 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:03:51 -0800 Comment by JC It looks like the aftermath of a giant Japanese robot battle. Not that that's a bad thing...

]]> JC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904488 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904488 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:10:41 -0800 Comment by Big Sven Charles, you're usually right on about architecture, but you're wrong about Gehry. Come sit on the UofMN Washington Avenue Bridge at the sun sets over downtown. The light makes the Weisman look like a flaming castle suspended over the bend in the Mississippi.

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904535 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904535 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:40:53 -0800 Comment by sam_iv Institutions hire Gehry to create gingerbread concoctions that convey the prestige of their "brand." But his works give neither dignity to the organizations nor functionality to the users. It's hard to know who to blame more, the client or the star. Ultimately, it's we who suffer; architectural progress falls backwards with each stroke of the pen (or wad of paper).

]]> sam_iv http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904603 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904603 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:56:41 -0800 Comment by whatever Does one need a license to practice architecture?

Does that one section move like a garbage truck when it's squashing the load?

]]> whatever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904609 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:12:39 -0800 Comment by Jack some folks need to get off the street grade

]]> Jack http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904616 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:29:51 -0800 Comment by Natalie Meh. Liquid crystal flat screen libraries will render it obsolete in months, then it'll be off to a landfill in China.

]]> Natalie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904629 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:44:09 -0800 Comment by w7ngman Awww, cute. They're putting wittle pieces of it together on the ground before assembwing it.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904678 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904678 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:13:53 -0800 Comment by holz @9:
the emp is a piece of shit, i have no idea what gehry was thinking, other than he hates microsoft as much as everyone else and wanted to take allen for a ride.

however, the central library is one of the better buildings in the northwest. frankly. anyone who says otherwise is a log cabin republican.

]]> holz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904688 Architecture Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:28:38 -0800 Comment by herbert browne @22 the emp is brilliant-- it's a glorified plane wreck in Boeing's "company town"- & that alone is gorgeous- but it's also pleasant on the inside- pretty fair acoustics in more than one place... and was a challenge to build (in a craftsman-free world of 'modular' paradigmatics). Look again... & think again.
^..^

]]> herbert browne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904773 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904773 Architecture Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:35:20 -0800 Comment by audrey i'm looking at the construction right now. it could be worse. it is sadly reminiscent of bilbao in an uncreative way, and the parts still look disjointed. there is no discourse with the rest of campus or even the immediate surroundings (which is bad considering that it nearly connects to fine hall).

but more importantly, we'll see how it functions. few people argue that gehry buildings look cool, the problem is that he has a cocky tendency to put his 'gehryness' (i.e., form) over the program of the building.

]]> audrey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904920 Architecture Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:55:04 -0800 Comment by chi-town architect Sad to think that those of us who recognize successful architecture are still waiting for starchitect Frank Gehry to come up with a good building. In the meantime, we encourage any of Gehry's attempts that deviate from his own "palette," as though he was just starting out as an architect. Stop hiring Gehry!

]]> chi-town architect http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904975 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c904975 Architecture Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:32:39 -0800 Comment by Gustavo The EMP is truly remarkable -- one of the few pieces of truly moving architecture.

Every time I see it, I am reminded that my very worst work is not on public display.

]]> Gustavo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c905092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c905092 Architecture Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:37:43 -0800 Comment by SeanD I like the EMP building. Yep, I think it's both cool and beautiful. There, I said it.

]]> SeanD http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c905458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/for_once_1#c905458 Architecture Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:50:42 -0800