The architect David Chipperfield is at the centre of an extraordinary row over Milan’s new €60m (£44m) Museum of Culture, a building he has designed and now disowned after accusing officials of skimping on flooring materials.
The resulting “floor war” – as locals have dubbed the stand off – has led the British architect, famous for the Neues Museum in Berlin and China’s Liangzhu Culture Museum, to demand that his name be removed from the project.
— independent.co.uk
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Looks like David isn't so Chipper about this project.
LOL, nice one lightperson.
"Architect hits roof over poor flooring". The jokes write themselves here.
Floored.
what a dick.
That's showing them. Now no one will ever know David Chipperfield designed this building.
Solution: install some shag carpet, ask visitors to take off shoes. It's zany instagramable fun!
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I appreciate him standing up for quality.
Mr Chipperfield said that the 5,000 square metres of stone flooring in his museum complex ... contained pieces that were scratched, stained and badly-aligned.
Favorite quote from article:
When a major retrospective show on the work of Frank Gehry opened in Milan in 2009, the celebrated but tetchy American creator of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum hit out at how baroque Italy had snubbed his designs.
Egad, the nerve of some people.
Miles another funny part of the article is the guy defending the need to cut back on quality on behalf of the taxpayer (essentially).....that's right People - those in charge cut back on "quality" on your behalf.
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