Why not ask Howard Hughes to abandon its current plan and do something really wonderful and revive the Guggenheim plan for Gehry’s gargantuan palace of titanium ribbons? The residential conversion of so many major office buildings is going, eventually, to create a need for new office buildings. Gehry’s plan could be enlarged gracefully to accommodate both offices and condominiums and rebalance the famous Lower Manhattan skyline... — 6sqft
Does Gehry still the chops to revive Lower Manhattan? One former New York Times architecture critic, Carter B. Horsley, proposes bringing Gehry's aborted idea for South Street Seaport back to life. The plan would replace SHoP Architect's recently scaled-back design for the waterfront site.
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hmm... another critic who thinks the raison d'etre of architecture is making charming skylines.
To be clear, I am an unapologetic admirer of Gehry and the fantastic spaces his office has designed. But this critique just kind of overlooks the difference between a museum and a commercial development, and makes an argument solely predicated on a simplistic aesthetic judgement.
This whole writing is strange, kind of wanders around without any purpose, and then concludes: bring back the Guggenheim. Is this some sort of nostalgia for the golden days when the Bilbao Effect was a novel idea? I didn't get the aim of this criticism at all, except that the author very much admires Gehry.
What's next, a call to Michael Graves?
people are always promoting "think outside the box", hmm...here's a guy who does and provides an expressive civic experience to boot, a component of design so often sadly missing is so much status quo work out there, so put aside the envy and open your eyes! Right on Frank!
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