What, really, do you know about the WTC? Are you one of the design ideologues who understand about 25% of what it takes to build a building? Are you an exterior decorator who only sees surfaces? Do you ridicule books you haven't read?
As I pointed out above, the chorus of negativity from the long and incomplete list of participants made it impossible for an architect on this project to merely sit down in front of a blank sheet of paper and draw whatever inspiration comes to mind. If you think that they can be ignored, you have a date with their lawyers. They literally have the power to end your career.
We spent YEARS developing the torqued tower, before the NYC police department simply swept it away. The tower you criticize is more the creation of the NYCPD than SOM. Since you are in LA, you may not be aware that the police are now attacking the Memorial design.
What should a building look like? Should a hospital look like a hospital? A school, a school? Or should a school look like a hospital?
Are we architects, or are we sculptors? The tower looks like corporate architecture because it is corporate architecture. If scupture is what you really want to do, then get out of architecture. You are, it appears, only interested in partial solutions to serious architectural challenges. As a sculptor, at least, you won't have to listen to the ornithologist who claims that your building will kill millions of birds, and is prepared to stop your design in court. Or, that the siting of the building by a certain architect has resulted in a transfer beam with a tension force of 17,000 kips. If you respond that you do not care about these things,
you are condemned to a career on the margins of architecture.
One of the twelve tone contemporary composers once remarked that he didn't care if his music was never performed. And guess what, it never is. Buildings are concrete, stone, bricks and steel. Buildings are not scribblings on paper.
And learn to be a more effective critic. Only the inarticulate resort to four letter words. An inarticulate critic is no critic at all.
Don't know where you are, but if you were in NY and watching Seven World Trade go up, you would have a pretty good idea of what will be inside One World Trade. Solid slip formed concrete shear walls, 60 inch stairwells and more. 7WTC also just received a gold LEED rating, the first tower in NY to do so. Gypsum shaft walls are sooooooo 70's.
Ballistics were a consideration. The NYPD made sure of that.
"If you respond that you do not care about these things,
you are condemned to a career on the margins of architecture." Thanks for that advise - in these time though the 'margins' are more interesting than the profession, especially here in the US.
Gin summarizes it well "If the past 40 years of mediocre crap cranked out by SOM hasn't already established that firm as a bunch of Armani-clad corporate whores, then this project surely will. I'd be ashamed to admit even the slightest connection with that project."
open letter to autodesk architectural desktop
What, really, do you know about the WTC? Are you one of the design ideologues who understand about 25% of what it takes to build a building? Are you an exterior decorator who only sees surfaces? Do you ridicule books you haven't read?
As I pointed out above, the chorus of negativity from the long and incomplete list of participants made it impossible for an architect on this project to merely sit down in front of a blank sheet of paper and draw whatever inspiration comes to mind. If you think that they can be ignored, you have a date with their lawyers. They literally have the power to end your career.
We spent YEARS developing the torqued tower, before the NYC police department simply swept it away. The tower you criticize is more the creation of the NYCPD than SOM. Since you are in LA, you may not be aware that the police are now attacking the Memorial design.
What should a building look like? Should a hospital look like a hospital? A school, a school? Or should a school look like a hospital?
Are we architects, or are we sculptors? The tower looks like corporate architecture because it is corporate architecture. If scupture is what you really want to do, then get out of architecture. You are, it appears, only interested in partial solutions to serious architectural challenges. As a sculptor, at least, you won't have to listen to the ornithologist who claims that your building will kill millions of birds, and is prepared to stop your design in court. Or, that the siting of the building by a certain architect has resulted in a transfer beam with a tension force of 17,000 kips. If you respond that you do not care about these things,
you are condemned to a career on the margins of architecture.
One of the twelve tone contemporary composers once remarked that he didn't care if his music was never performed. And guess what, it never is. Buildings are concrete, stone, bricks and steel. Buildings are not scribblings on paper.
And learn to be a more effective critic. Only the inarticulate resort to four letter words. An inarticulate critic is no critic at all.
when complete, the wtc work will succeed or fail in public opinion. that is, the opinion of those who don't know what it takes to make it happen.
The Freedom Tower design is not only ‘bullet proof’, it is BOMB proof. How can you argue with that? It’s invincible.
Don't know where you are, but if you were in NY and watching Seven World Trade go up, you would have a pretty good idea of what will be inside One World Trade. Solid slip formed concrete shear walls, 60 inch stairwells and more. 7WTC also just received a gold LEED rating, the first tower in NY to do so. Gypsum shaft walls are sooooooo 70's.
Ballistics were a consideration. The NYPD made sure of that.
"If you respond that you do not care about these things,
you are condemned to a career on the margins of architecture." Thanks for that advise - in these time though the 'margins' are more interesting than the profession, especially here in the US.
Gin summarizes it well "If the past 40 years of mediocre crap cranked out by SOM hasn't already established that firm as a bunch of Armani-clad corporate whores, then this project surely will. I'd be ashamed to admit even the slightest connection with that project."
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