Taking the view that the owner of the Philharmonie had modified and thus defiled his architectural work, Jean Nouvel had sued ... asking the court to order the owner to perform all works necessary for the restoration of his work so as to comply with the architectural plans he had initially drawn. [...]
The case at hand renews the debate on the difficulties of granting remedies which constitute an acceptable way to balance the proprietor's rights and the moral rights of architects.
— lexology.com
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Looks like a huge pile of shit
Yikes. That is an ugly building.
Jean Nouvel is upset that this building was "defiled?"
How on earth could anybody tell? Paris should sue him for defiling the city with that monstrosity.
I wonder how this building would look better had they followed the architect's plans to the tee. Look's like a hipster's smurf hat.
And this is why we can't have nice things.
Apparently has lost the ability to be objectively self critical.
I was worried for a minute that I was the only one that thought this looked awful. I love the "hipster's smurf hat" comment.
a friend of mine recently posted a picture of the head of a monkfish on ice at an Asian grocery in Houston. this building looks like a monkfish head in an Asian grocery. Stop defiling monkfish!
Once upon a time, Nouvel presented drawings and renderings of that building to his clients, and the clients said, "Yes! Let's build it". Do you think they really understood that they would be getting... THIS?
I love all of the close up details of the exterior, I just can't "see" the exterior from all of the photos of the building at a distance.
Even these look great;
Can I walk up here;
The section is great;
hey, but it's parametric!
Everyone should keep applying Trumpian aesthetics to French architecture. I'm sure nothing could go wrong. Right?
The Escher like birds do look cool, but probably better if confined to a tee shirt. Kind of amazing that wall papering a pattern over an amorphous form passes for architecture.
Please tell me the point of the suit is that if they had built it according to Nouvel's design it wouldn't look like this.
I like the tessellated pattern, but can't get over the lack of tonal contrast between the majority of it, and the shiny, basket-weaved metal panels. One of those moves alone would make this a lot better, IMHO.
Shut up Beta, you are just arguing for the sake of it.
sod, yes, sir. I should know better, I'm still learning under Cheeto Jesus, that I need to agree with everything everyone says, or Hair Furor and his acolytes will run me up a flag pole.
I like all of it, despite what grandma old doctor says.
This is beautiful.
If only they'd used it on a surface where it was readable. More like Cacophonie!
The pattern is interesting. It would make a nice poster, or nice wallpaper. However, the nice pattern can't mask the awkward form, lumpy proportions, lack of human scale.
What is this building trying to say? Why this, and not any of the other millions of possibilities? Why should I want the building to be like this?
the building is located in parc villette. there's a history of significant "experimentation" in that area. added to that it's along the perif which architects have also been playing with for some.
Not to mention this is Nouvel. Asking for tame is like asking Grant Achatz to just say "bam!" at the table.
it's a hot mess, and that's what they asked for.
We're rapidly approaching the Wall of Terminal Weirdness.
it's more of an asymptote...
It depends on your cosmological model. :)
Starchitects are loosing their cool. Nouvel is a fine architect, so why make something so complex so complicated?
beta, grandma doctor wants to barf all over you.
Marc, yes, the building is in Parc de la Villette, but it is an abomination, not experimentation. To be fair, I like a lot of his stuff (even one that people hate), but this is pretty much what im going to produce tomorrow morning after a good dinner,
Sameold,
1- The point I'm trying to make when situating this project in the Parc de la Villette is that there's a lot ob abomination that happens in the limits of that place. Recall that the park itself was noted for the idea embedded in it that the city was to occupy the park as compared to the surrounding regional historic precedents that go through a great deal of gyration to make insert the park into the city -closest and possibly most notably Buttes Chaumont. Not to mention the park was not revise well initially, being seen as an aberration (in a derogatory sense).
Also consider Portzamparc's Cité de la Musique. While it is more of interior building relative to Nouvel's project, it's not that great. Volumetrically it works with the surrounding fabric, but it's also difficult to navigate.
2- The peril is a fixed monster that no one knows how to address. The are quite a few projects that do some strange things with the building face (maybe not a facade) that is oriented towards the highway. So, I wonder if this is a more of a 50 mph building, simulating a flock of something rising out of the park through the sparkly bits, contrasting materials and patterns. This of course is humorous given how frequently traffic on the perif moves at a snail's pace.
3- Nouvel has never been known for a high batting average (not is he scared of trying to push limits with less than popular results).
4- I did say hot mess...
That pattern tesselation makes the already-ugly form of the opera house look like it has a skin disease. Horrific on every single level.
Honestly, I think that people around the world needs to ban the construction of such vomit inducing pile of diarrhea in the cities. Post modern art is destroying culture.
hummmm... how about no.
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Non Sequitor is also a poster here. Coincidence?
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