Duangrit Bunnag, the renowned local architect who won the bid to design Suvarnabhumi airport's second terminal, has denied plagiarising the work of a Japanese architect.
"I didn't copy anyone else's work. Those who follow my work will know that I created a similar image in my previous designs, such as for a hotel in Sri Lanka," Mr Duangrit told The Standard, a local online news portal.
— bangkokpost.com
Duangrit Bunnag's firm DBALP Consortium, along with Nikken Sekkei, EMS Consultants, MHPM, MSE and ARJ Consortium, were recently announced as winners of the Suvarnabhumi Airport Terminal 2 Project design contest. Focused on expanding the Thailand airport, the competition design sparked online accusations of plagiarizing Kengo Kuma's Wooden Bridge Museum in southern Japan.
DBALP Consortium's winning airport design:
Kengo Kuma's Wooden Bridge Museum:
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Give me a break.. palaces have been built this way in Asia since the beginning of time
I think Hasbro has a case against both of them.
TIL Kengo Kuma went back in time to the 1800's and invented the vierendeel truss
Shitty journalism. Who made the accusations? If it's some random fuckwad on twitter, this is not news. If it's Kengo Kuma, then it is.
Until we know who made the accusations, THIS IS NOT NEWS.
Fuck Kuengo man.... All he does is copying some traditional? wood chips stacking things with some degree of variations, that's it.
I really wonder how such a limited design language works all the time..
Again, did he invented Post-modern shits too?
LEGO should sue.
It's reminiscent of 3DH to me.
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I don't care if an architect steals or not, it's whether they do it well. In this case, a motif that works nicely on an intimate scale get's fussy and overbearing on a large scale, to say nothing about maintenance.
there’s no such thing as plagiarism in architecture. cool is cool. lame is lame.
that said, ideas tend to get watered down and stale after a while, usually at the hands of developers who don’t give a sh*t (see the history of public housing, current condo developments). but not the case here. Still believe in innovation and authenticity—which usually happens when designers are sensitive to context, time, technology and craft.
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