This week the Whitney Museum inaugurated a brand new exhibition and studio space designed by shipping container architects-extraordinaire LOT-EK. An ultra-modern and eco-friendly addition to complement the museum's 1960s concrete brutalist construction, the new structure was commissioned by the Whitney as a space where the museum could hold special exhibits and house activities for the Whitney education program. —
More about the project here.
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"An ultra-modern and eco-friendly addition to complement the museum's 1960s concrete brutalist construction"
Seems like only thing it compliments is Lot-ek's business card relations and the firm's buzzwords. What kind of a move is this by Whitney on their way out of the building? Looks like the drywall contractor's job site office.
Shipping container specialists drop a deuce at Whitney's doorstep.
Lo-Tek's views on ecology are as misconstrued as Whitneys selection of them.
i wish they would drop a deuce on my doorstep. i
i used to like LOT-EK when they first started, but it's getting a bit trite to repeat an idea that is crazy simplistic for the majority of their career that never goes beyond the initial obvious formations (let's take boxes and put them in a grid, then slide them 1/3 the length. Let's take boxes and put them in a grid then draw a graphic diagonal across and then cut that out, let's take boxes and array them and shift 15 degrees)...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Pointless when you start cutting out the structural components of the container (the corrug.) and have to go back and reinforce ad nauseum....
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