Archinect - News 2024-12-22T08:54:32-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/58228939/stedelijk-museum-s-bathtub-awash-in-awkwardness-review-latimes-com Stedelijk Museum's 'bathtub' awash in awkwardness: Review - latimes.com Archinect 2012-09-28T19:57:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/87/8704824420c886d35e8d83e23f892e9d?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>An overscaled monument flagrantly aloof from its surroundings, the addition is a laggard symbol of an era when the Netherlands, like this country, was awash in capital for boldly sculptural new projects. As such it's a reminder of how slow architecture can be. The $159-million extension is the architectural personification of boom-time thinking.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>