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Public Farm 1 at first blush
Metropolis Magazine:
“The need for shade and cozy places to huddle and speak to new friends is what I look for in these installations in the garden. Much of the overhead area is left open and bare, seemingly unaddressed. It feels like a pulled-back version of what could have been.”
Whoops. Also, don't miss Dan Wood in his harvesting skirt.
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Not sure where that art director was. We were there today and it was awesome. Kids everywhere, tons of seats in the pool, on columns, a fluorescent red bench, crazy rubber trampoline seats spread around, misters, shade you name it. They didnt mention the periscope, videos of farm animals, some kind of cricket column. "Pulled back version" seems a little harsh too, the thing is HUGE.
Yeah, I haven't been, but from pics, renderings, plans, I don't see how this art critic could be right. He or she was just having a bad day, looking to take it out on someone?
Maybe all the additional stuff (benches, plants etc)wasn't on site yet.
It does look "pulled back," a single swoop in huge courtyard. It could have done much much more to occupy and shape the space.
I agree with the first poster on that site, this seriously strikes me as a "jump the shark" moment
But it's so refreshing after all of the incredibly machined swooping blobforms of Zaha and others.
This is architecture as a social idea, not architecture as pure form. I like that it's a little raw and slapdash.
Exactly, farwest. I love seeing a project that takes on something more than form, and that actually has content that is not just post-rationalization of a form. The aesthetic is a result of a function and its rawness is absolutely appropriate to the idea.
Plus, you can eat it. How cool is that?
I love this project. Wish a trip to New York was in my near future!
I never said that it wasn't good content. I was only speaking of the form. It could have done both form AND content. We'll see what the inhabitants think about the form during a blazing hot afternoon in late July when the sparse shade is completely full.
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