We hired a human rights lawyer from Human Rights Watch when we started on the Abu Dhabi project. Both we and our client were interested in making sure the project was in the clear. There was a time when they were being beat up on for the conditions of temporary workers. And they did something about it: They built relatively comfortable camps. These issues are important to me when I take a project. — foreignpolicy.com
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Next week: Gehry ponders the time he put a recycling bin in the office
LOL, Darkman.
"Epiphanies"? Really?
It is funny that Gehry thinks of himself as a humanitarian.
Not sure why everyone is giving him such a hard time. What other architects working in the Middle East would hire a human rights lawyer to make sure that workers are treated fairly? Gehry's also one of the few starchitects who bothers to pay his interns.
I'm not giving FOG a hard time. Bully for him.
I'm giving the Archinect editors --with whom I generally concur, but who often title these little pieces ridiculously-- the hard time.
FoG hired the lawyer to protect his ass from another Disney or Stata Center debacle.
As starchitects go FG does seem like a really nice guy. Humanitarian??? who knows what he does with his money...
citizen.... the title given to this page is the title of the article to which it is referring...
Point taken.
My apologies go to Archinect's editors (in this case), and my slings and arrows are now flung at the editors of Foreign Policy.
ahhhhh, sweet internet vitriol . . .
fling shit thrice,
measure, uhhh not so much.
Wonder if he would hire a 60 year old intern....if no could I sue him. I'm sure my skill level is way above the average intern level.....and he could pay me minimum wage and I would still be happy. Just to have the opportunity to work with his funky computer program. Think it is the same one Air Canada uses to design Jets.
Worth a try, Snook. Maybe he'll have an epiphany about it!
Until it became a political hot potato, he pretty much stayed on the designing the Museum of Tolerance on Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem for his L.A. based client. All for boosting and facilitating faith based tourism land grab.
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