Whoa, what’s this? Replacing Gehry is sometimes okay?
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Brooklyners take heart! Floridians have discovered that replacing Frank Gehry with another designer need not inexorably result in ugly warehouses and vapid atmospheres.
Mr. Gehry’s firm was just replaced by West 8 as the lead designer for Miami Beach’s Lincoln Park project, which consists of landscaping a 2.5 acre urban space. As expected, an unfortunate inability to stay within budget led to the Dutch landscape architecture firm’s hiring.
Mr. Gehry is still on as designer for the New World Symphony project, which would abut Lincoln Park. I am unfamiliar with West 8 except for a vague recollection of their bridge in Utrecht. Even though West 8 has yet to reveal any renderings, judging from what I’ve just seen, they won’t prove to be any sort of disappointment or lamentable compromise.
Image courtesy of jbcurio
