... if they do tear down the building, they'll replace it with another architecturally significant structure. When I spoke with Ron Naylor, who works in Facilities Management at Northwestern, he promised a building "the aesthetics of such that people are going to marvel at it." — wbez.org
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My absolute faaaaaaaavorite part of this article is when the quoted Northwestern representative makes the argument that Northwestern has held competitions in the past for their new school of music and the Kellogg school of management, and that both resulted in 'good architecture'.
I feel like im being a serious jerk today, as i earlier criticized NBBJ, but the offices that won both of the above referenced 'competitions' are mildly above average corporate offices. The kinds of offices you would hire to put up an appropriately nice building, not replace an icon...
If northwestern is allowed to tear down Prentice, EXPECT it to be replaced with a generic pile of crap by a run of the mill, generic corporate office... take your pick... nbbj, bkl, hks, rtkl, etc. etc... etc....... hhhhh
Sounds like they are full of shit. Does this guy even know what an "architectural marvel" would be? Probably not because he is already trying to tear down one.
Yo!
totally in agreement with lletdownl. Whenever someone promises a marvel these days it just means that whatever huge office designs it will refer to it as a marvel in their PR statements.
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