Adorned with gold and marble, [the Trump Tower] looks like Saddam Hussein went on a shopping spree with Liberace.
To make way for its construction, Mr Trump demolished the handsome Art Deco Bonwit Teller department store. He promised to donate its bas-relief carvings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art but it turned out they were too expensive to remove so they were smashed to pieces on site instead.
— Financial Times
Loud, pushy, indifferent to anything but self-touted glamour: Donald Trump's politics and his buildings share a great deal in common. In this piece, The Financial Times' reigning design critic Edwin Heathcote briefly touches on the repugnant qualities that the Donald's politics and his buildings share, noting that "Mr. Trump’s buildings, unlike his father’s, have failed to make any architectural contribution to the cities around them or address social needs. Instead they pop up like middle fingers disdaining their surroundings. They are less architecture than marketing, with the Trump sign the most important component."
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I dunno if any of you have had the misfortune of working with Trump & Co., but word is that they treat their consultants very badly, taking forever to pay etc etc.
I'd argue that it's not Trump's architecture, it's his development. Related, of course, but not the same thing.
dipped! dude is a solid gold asshole.
Agreed, citizen. Trump is clearly someone who views architecture as nothing more than the necessary decorative fluff on his penis...I mean on his investment properties.
The good news is the tide has turned (at least politically) on this asshole. Polls and the media are running against him. The people spending real money on media coverage don't want him getting the free limelight anymore.
As to Trump's 'architecture', what else would you expect from a big dick?
(if you have a big dick you don't need a Ferrari, but if you don't, a Ferrari is mandatory)
His persona is nasty, his buildings merely generic.
The real problem here is how are we going to hate Bjarke Ingels if we start acting as if the things Trump builds are architecture too? It throws the curve entirely off whack.
wow that's some bad architecture! THUMP TRUMP!
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