Is there no architecture that can bare its soul without simultaneously crushing you with its ego, that stirs, moves, troubles, provokes, inspires? [...]
A glimmer of an alternative is suggested by Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture, an installation opening next week [...]
The installation is designed by the architect Alex Scott-Whitby, previously best known for proposing that the spires of City of London churches be adapted to make creative workspaces.
— theguardian.com
"Mavericks: Breaking the Mould of British Architecture" runs at London's Royal Academy of Art from January 26 through April 20, and features the work of FAT, Robert Smythson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Zaha Hadid, James Stirling, and many others.
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That's a photograph?
Wow.
i really hope this is the future of architecture and not just some idiosyncratic fad.
I'm torn on this building. I admire the way that it embraces ornamentation, but I find the composition of elements to be kind of clumsy. I realize that its a collaboration with an artist whose aesthetic is sort of all-over-the-place. Maybe FAT could have worked on refining the composition a bit more.
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