"Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne," the new headquarters for NOAA "appears as a slash of corrugated steel and prefabricated panels, fronted with a billboard-sized NOAA sign and topped by a half-dozen satellite dishes. Most of its 208,000 square feet are hidden beneath a grass roof that blends the building into a meadow. All that's visible is an aircraft carrier-like superstructure that seems to show little trace of human character, as if the whole building were just a rack for the satellite dishes, lit up at night like a spaceport." Wired.
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...quotable from the photos:
"Thom Mayne designs structures that can look like the Death Star, awesome and intimidating."
Mayne the Death Star-chitect...
clearly melodramatic, but this engineer has understood what mayne was doing, despite the fact that he was opposed to it throughout the project. someday i want to be in a position to give a client that satisfaction: unexpected pleasure.
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