Slog - Comments on More Leaves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves From an email that concerned Leaves of Glass: In reading your "Leaves of Glass" article on the new Four Seasons, I found myself somewhat perplexed. I read Alexandros Washburn’s quote about contemporary virtue “being a concern for nature” as referring not only to the aesthetic aspects of a building, which you celebrated, but also to the functional aspects of the building, which you omitted. I looked around online and found no mention of any "sustainable" features of the building and, assuming this is indeed the case, I would have to conclude that the building's cladding merely projects the image of... Copyright 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:05:17 -0800 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:56:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bellevue Ave Did chaz rape someone in freeway park? I just don't understand the obsession.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038011 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038011 Architecture Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:04:55 -0800 Comment by keith I understand the distinction between the two discourses but would argue that even though they can be separated for discussion, they are intimately linked, and that should always be acknowledged.

As a reader of Marx, I see this as use value vs. exchange value scenario, where the former refers to the actual performance of the building while the latter refers to what Walter Benjamin calls the exhibition value (of a work of art), which is how we most easily "experience" the building.

Thanks for the response and the link.

]]> keith http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038120 Architecture Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:26:48 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay The new Four Seasons is just a petty attempt to get back at the people who made them give up the contract for The Olympic. But without The Olympic, Four Seasons is just another stick-up-the-butt business for the nouveau riche. Like Nordstrom, but with beds.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038176 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038176 Architecture Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:21:02 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster Bellevue Hospital @1,

Why do you hate philosophy so much?

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038274 Architecture Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:33:16 -0800 Comment by AJ If Seattle isn't green enough for you, please move to Portland.

]]> AJ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038295 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/more_leaves#c1038295 Architecture Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:56:40 -0800