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“They say nothing comes easy,” murmurs the protagonist in the opening sequence of the single most ri diculous promotional video for a building ever made, shooting to the top of the list of 11 other contenders. Indeed: Making a sensible advertisement for a luxury high-rise is almost impossible these days, it seems. British developer Redrow has…
20 Fenchurch Street — known by Londoners, not so affectionately, as the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ — has ruffle d more than a few feathers during its ungainly rise from the north bank of the Thames River. Its thuggish, lumbering form has been met with a tidal wave of derision from the U.K’s leading architecture critics, not to mention…
“How far apart should those ceiling shackles be? What dimensions did you want for that waterboard? A nd of course, I think it all looks best in black.” The relationship between architecture and ethics has always been a turbulent one, and debates over the moral responsibilities of our profession have reached fever pitch in recent times.…
Check out Parts 1, 2 and 3 if you haven’t already! As autumn turned to winter, things got frosty in a media conference in Spain… Gehry’s retort. Via The Guardian OCTOBER Frank Gehry cranked up the controversy — and his middle finger — when asked for his response to accusations that he produces “showy architecture.”…