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US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany

2014-06-23T13:37:00-04:00

On Friday afternoon, a young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina. The Chacán-Pi (Making Love) artwork by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara has been outside Tübingen University's institute for microbiology and virology since 2001 and had previously mainly attracted juvenile sniggers rather than adventurous explorers.

Zaha Hadid Says Al Wakrah World Cup Stadium Doesn't Resemble Vagina

2013-11-25T12:05:00-05:00

Zaha Hadid, the world’s best-known female architect, is none too pleased with critics like Jon Stewart, who have mocked her Al Wakrah Stadium—designed with AECOM for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar—and likened her to the “Georgia O’Keeffe of things you can walk inside.” “It’s really embarrassing that they come up with nonsense like this,” Hadid tells TIME exclusively. “What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That’s ridiculous.”

Previously: Unnecessary Muffness; Jon Stewart discusses Zaha's "f**kable buildings"

Penis church, vagina stadium: Can genital-shaped architecture really be accidental?

2013-11-23T12:00:00-05:00

"Sometimes,” wrote Charles Lindbergh in his 1953 flight memoir, The Spirit of St. Louis, “the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see.” And sometimes, it looks like a bunch of genitals.

Recently: Unnecessary Muffness; Jon Stewart discusses Zaha's "f**kable buildings"

Design Crime: An Office Shaped Like Lady Parts

2011-09-28T12:05:23-04:00

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 “reminiscent of a large droplet of water ready to fall from the ceiling.” Uh, yeah. If a “large droplet of water” looks exactly like a vagina.