“If American architects wanted to ride the wave, rather than be wiped out by it, they had first to comprehend one thing: the client no longer counted for anything except the funding.” —Tom Wolfe
09/17/26: At the Gates of Hell, the first thing the inductees see is Hell's "Statue of Liberty," modelled after Big Mike. And after they get in, they find out that she's running the place.
It's really not that different from the EMP in Seattle (or whatever it is now called)--then colors are different, but that's about all. A non-entity of a building trying hard to be an entity--it reminds me of a narcissist trying to get me to look at him, her, whatever. Sad that architecture has spent the last 80 years degenerating.
Too weird to be scary. Perhaps Mr Gehry actually indulged in a post mortal ha-ha finger to all who bought his stupid shit? It does not have that aura of evil enjoyed by the Obama "Library." But very few things will ever descend to THAT level. Thanks for the look-in.
It's hard to top the Obama Trashbin for out-and-out ugliness and oppressive atmosphere. Could someone make an argument for Presidential libraries resembling the President they "honor." Somebody will do a study. Or a coffee table pix book. I hope they include a psychiatrist in the evaluation. And a scale for "nuts," "certifiable," and "already gone."
What a travesty when placed alongside some of our great creations. The soaring beautiful medieval cathedrals, the castles built across Europe and Asia, the Taj Mahal.....
We have sunk to only being capable of building monstrous cartoons now.
Almost everything to do with "Fine Art" (which is not entirely distinct from Architecture) has, since the 1970s, been despicably undermined by postmodernism and by various left-wing ideologies. Their agendas dictate the abolition of criteria for what is deemed "beautiful." It's a spear into the throat of much of the great glory of Western civilization.
There seems to be a real effort to uglify the world #obamalibrary.
It’s the opposite of God’s beautiful creation.
Despoil is probably a better word than uglify....but I agree.
It's everywhere. Art, architecture, painting, film, Novels...
09/17/26: Any chance that this was a building hit by a Houthis missile?
Trucks. Bubble cars. Baseball caps, sweatpants, leggings, puffy sneakers. Scented laundry detergent. LED’s.
Don't start a list. It will run to 437 pages and become a best-selling novel!
Great! I could use the cash.
Uglify just made me laugh, it’s definitely not a word!
You can verbify anything now.
I looked it up by opening a new tab and typing it in. Definitely a word.
It is now! I like it.
Any word is a word if you use it. Where do you think words come from?
Circular reasoning leaves me dizzy.
Next thing you’ll tell me : IT IS WHAT IT IS
I’ve found I’m unable to read novels written in recent years. They’re awful…just a bunch of words that don’t seem to say anything. Is it just me?
Then I feel better about it! It’s just not…elegant…
So true.
Starting with #obamawife.
The new cartoon 'statue' in Trafalgar Square?
Oh, don't get me started on that hideous afront to our senses.
It won't last long.
09/17/26: At the Gates of Hell, the first thing the inductees see is Hell's "Statue of Liberty," modelled after Big Mike. And after they get in, they find out that she's running the place.
Sadly, that may be their point in foisting the ugly on the world.
I walked by that Obama monstrosity the other day ... and I swear that I heard someone screaming "Do it to Julia, do it to Julia ... not me, Julia
Are we sure this mess wasn't the result of an earthquake and that everything collapsed in upon itself and resulted in this jumble?
09/17/26: It looks like Peggy Guggenheim's taste in men.
It's embarrisingly ugly. Yes, like a pile of construction materials, placed like a jenga game. Pull them out, one by one, until it collapses.
Looks like it already collapsed.
Lolz! Yes.
My first impression was it looked like some building fell in on itself and now was just a pile of odd shapes and pieces.
Beauty itself is a lost art. Tragic and heartbreaking really.
It's really not that different from the EMP in Seattle (or whatever it is now called)--then colors are different, but that's about all. A non-entity of a building trying hard to be an entity--it reminds me of a narcissist trying to get me to look at him, her, whatever. Sad that architecture has spent the last 80 years degenerating.
09/17/26: Rotting in an unplugged fridge.
Too weird to be scary. Perhaps Mr Gehry actually indulged in a post mortal ha-ha finger to all who bought his stupid shit? It does not have that aura of evil enjoyed by the Obama "Library." But very few things will ever descend to THAT level. Thanks for the look-in.
It's hard to top the Obama Trashbin for out-and-out ugliness and oppressive atmosphere. Could someone make an argument for Presidential libraries resembling the President they "honor." Somebody will do a study. Or a coffee table pix book. I hope they include a psychiatrist in the evaluation. And a scale for "nuts," "certifiable," and "already gone."
Mecca of the eyesore.
If chaos were a building, that's exactly what it would look like.
Well, it looks like a pile of junk which is what it'll be housing. So, a bit of "truth in advertising" from Gehry?
Looks like WTC Building 7 on September 12.
"Our times" indeed.
If the Iranians blew it up, they would be doing the world a favor. The building and the “art” that’s in it would not be missed, IMHO.
I thought they already did! lol
Even if they did, how could you tell?
The design of the museum perfectly expresses the current culture: Orderless, ugly, incoherent and repulsive.
What a travesty when placed alongside some of our great creations. The soaring beautiful medieval cathedrals, the castles built across Europe and Asia, the Taj Mahal.....
We have sunk to only being capable of building monstrous cartoons now.
Almost everything to do with "Fine Art" (which is not entirely distinct from Architecture) has, since the 1970s, been despicably undermined by postmodernism and by various left-wing ideologies. Their agendas dictate the abolition of criteria for what is deemed "beautiful." It's a spear into the throat of much of the great glory of Western civilization.
Unfortunately, it accurately represents the current state of Western civilization: chaos and destruction.
Or, as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat, even!) said in the 1960's, we're "defining deviancy down."
Frank Gehry should have also said that the world is full of crap. Does that mean it deserves expression in architecture?
The Beverly Hillbillies ll