The rise of international architecture competitions has given western architects an opportunity to make their mark on eastern Europe and Central Asia [...]
Regardless of record-high fees, some of their projects are being cancelled half-way through or take a good decade to build. But the ones that are brought to life often become some of the most recognised works of its authors. For starchitects the miles between eastern Europe and Central Asia is the place where dreams and ambitions come true.
— calvertjournal.com
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as i said in other forum, What would be of starchitects without uber rich and dictators?
I guess Albert Speer was on to something...
I read the spandau diaries not too long ago, and he wasn't onto anything until hitler chose him, somehow when you are told you are great you start believing it, even if you're not.
Alas, the price of success, toady to warlords and slave-masters.
It may not be her fault but it most certainly is her choice.
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