Editor's Picks #403

2015-02-03T11:20:00-05:00

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Stephen Burgen traveled to the newly opened Museo Universidad de Navarra, designed by Rafael Moneo. Mr_Wiggin was disappointed "To me, Moneo's best works are those that are inserted into a place built up 100+ years ago....this, standing alone in the middle of a verdant green, looks like failure of planning".

The NYT reported on the latest developments regarding Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y. Thayer-D lamented "I know this building is a maintenance nightmare, but it's truly one of the more interesting brutalist buildings out there. A lot of ideas to cull from it".

Orhan Ayyüce shared a quote/story from Esther McCoy's 1981 memorial to Konrad Wachsmann, wherein both Corbu and Konrad praise the Pont Transbordeur as ...

Favorite Building: Konrad Wachsmann and Le Corbusier

2015-01-29T14:41:00-05:00

From Esther McCoy's 1981 memorial to Konrad Wachsmann:

"Finally all internees who wanted to, were permitted to join the French army. Konrad did. They heard then about the Dunkirk disaster. When Konrad’s regiment crossed the Loire River, the Germans were already in Marseilles. They had destroyed the Pont Transbordeur, which bridged the inner harbor entrance to Marseilles.

Ten years later Konrad sat one day in a restaurant in New York with Le Corbusier. Konrad said, "He asked me what I thought was the most beautiful structure in this century."
"I hope, " Konrad said, "you are not expecting me to say the Villa Savoye.”
“No, no, " Corb replied.

Konrad then proposed that each write the name of the structure and compare them. They had both written Pont Transbordeur..."

Cover photo and quote via Susan Morgan

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Editor's Picks #403

Favorite Building: Konrad Wachsmann and Le Corbusier