Architectural screaming
February 3rd, 2009 | by Simon |If Renaissance architecture could be compared to music, today’s can often be heard screeching, and screeching about itself, to boot. What else is a Gehry Bilbao, a NRA Shipping and Transport College or an OMA CCTV other than a scream of “Look at me!!! Hey, I’m here!!! Admire me for f****’s sake!!!”?
Not that I have anything in particular against these buildings – in fact I distinctly like the two latter ones for various reasons. But I also have a feeling that what’s needed today is an architecture that speaks, if it can’t sing, or at least doesn’t poke you in the ribs every time you try to look away.
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