The name of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower is a real mouthful, a hybrid title for a mongrel artwork. The contorted steel “sculpture-cum-tower-cum-engineering feat,” in the inelegant phrase of Tate director Nicholas Serota, is the totem of our Olympic games, rising more than 375 feet out of the central plaza of the park, on former light industrial land equidistant between Stratford and Hackney Wick in east London. — architectmagazine.com
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I hate this thing.
Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International redux
Not at all like Tatlin, or Eiffel. I wouldn't confuse the material with the meaning.
What's the meaning?
Looks like it could be paying homage to the industrial heritage of the site.
looks like someone stepped in some gum. that red space frame thing is going to be one giant bird-shit generator.
Looks like someone got fancy new structural design software this year. Look what I can do, daddy!
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