Archinect - News 2024-11-21T11:57:22-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/102553042/us-student-is-rescued-from-giant-vagina-sculpture-in-germany US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany Archinect 2014-06-23T13:37:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5u/5uyt7nlsjzaloxud.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>On Friday afternoon, a young American in T&uuml;bingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The Chac&aacute;n-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside T&uuml;bingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.</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> https://archinect.com/news/article/87369405/zaha-hadid-says-al-wakrah-world-cup-stadium-doesn-t-resemble-vagina Zaha Hadid Says Al Wakrah World Cup Stadium Doesn't Resemble Vagina Archinect 2013-11-25T12:05:00-05:00 >2018-11-29T13:40:05-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e23fcadf4674ad4167fce9ac90ba136c?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Zaha Hadid, the world&rsquo;s best-known female architect, is none too pleased with critics like Jon Stewart, who have mocked her Al Wakrah Stadium&mdash;designed with AECOM for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar&mdash;and likened her to the &ldquo;Georgia O&rsquo;Keeffe of things you can walk inside.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s really embarrassing that they come up with nonsense like this,&rdquo; Hadid tells TIME exclusively. &ldquo;What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That&rsquo;s ridiculous.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><p> Previously: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/87000917/unnecessary-muffness-jon-stewart-discusses-zaha-s-f-kable-buildings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unnecessary Muffness; Jon Stewart discusses Zaha's "f**kable buildings"</a></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/87214571/penis-church-vagina-stadium-can-genital-shaped-architecture-really-be-accidental Penis church, vagina stadium: Can genital-shaped architecture really be accidental? Archinect 2013-11-23T12:00:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8a/8aeedb40d4fae9a4519b90c17c6e0e97?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>"Sometimes,&rdquo; wrote Charles Lindbergh in his 1953 flight memoir, The Spirit of St. Louis, &ldquo;the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see.&rdquo; And sometimes, it looks like a bunch of genitals.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Recently: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/87000917/unnecessary-muffness-jon-stewart-discusses-zaha-s-f-kable-buildings" target="_blank">Unnecessary Muffness; Jon Stewart discusses Zaha's "f**kable buildings"</a></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/22026824/design-crime-an-office-shaped-like-lady-parts Design Crime: An Office Shaped Like Lady Parts Archinect 2011-09-28T12:05:23-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/z1/z1q5v9wg4m4y6gu9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The showpiece is a staircase smack dab in the middle of the first-floor work room that leads to a second floor with a gaping white void painted red inside. Taranta says it's &ldquo;reminiscent of a large droplet of water ready to fall from the ceiling.&rdquo; Uh, yeah. If a &ldquo;large droplet of water&rdquo; looks exactly like a vagina.</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>