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 [...]
Honestly, if you were to tour the top 10 American cities worth visiting because of their architecture (post coming soon!), would Atlanta even be in the top 20? Top 30? Exaggeration (is it really?) aside, I think it is fair to say that even the most pro-Atlanta tourism director would be hard-pressed to compete with [...]
NYTimes: Battle between budget and beauty, which budget won
If you haven’t already, be sure to read Niccolai Ouroussoff’s excellent display of frustration over the events leading to Frank Gehry’s dismissal as architect for the New Jersey Net’s new Brooklyn arena.
His review perfectly describes the seemingly inevitable (and confusing) tugs-of-war between developer, city, neighborhood, economy, and [...]