The Times UK has a couple of interesting letters from readers. First, Stephen D. Rountree, CEO and President of the Performing Arts Center in LA defends the sandblasting of the Disney Hall glare as a minor fix. Frank Gehry himself follows and doesn't address the panels per se. He only says: Sir, Titanium (at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao) does not rust. This is the shortest letter to an editor I've ever seen printed. Read
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that's classic. I now have total respect for Mr. Gehry. Let the sandblasting begin.
Well said by Gehry!! The journalist who wrote the piece that Gehry answered seems to be an Arts correspondent so you can guess the type...
Anyway here is what Mr. Morrison wrote :
"California steaming
ALWAYS entertaining to see a famous architect humiliated in public. And they don’t come more famous than Frank Gehry. Nor is humiliation shovelled more publicly than in Los Angeles right now."
and the he goes
"Did it not occur to an architect who lives in Santa Monica that the intense Californian sunlight might make stainless-steel walls impractical in real life, no matter how trendy and “award winning†they looked on the drawing-board? It seems not.
Still, at least there’s no talk of sandblasting Gehry’s other famous exercise in metal: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Quite the opposite. Its once-dazzling titanium walls have rusted so much that they now barely shine at all.
And Gehry’s next deconstructivist epic  a huge housing development likened by one critic to “four giant transvestites caught in a gale† shouldn’t have any problems from intense sunshine, either. It’s going up in Hove, Sussex."
So, the Times newspaper is gearing up to the next Gehry project here in Britain.
We will have more to post.
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