Robert Adam's design for Grafton Hall, which was recently approved by Chester City Council, will be built instead of Ushida Findlay's ultra-Modernist, competition-winning "starfish" scheme from 2001. Opening a debate about the meaning of "innovation".
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Exterior over interior. The ideas of the Findlay's plan are ingenious, with each 'arm' of the 'starfish' basking in different angles of the sun during the day - however, it's all about interior when most people, unfortunately, just care about the exterior.
And the exterior is ugly: it looks like an odd starfish from above, where it is so prominent in model, yet in real life only occasional helicopter-flying billionaires will observe. And there is no front facade for cheesy magazines to show the design off.
Sometimes design is unfortunately a lot more about marketing than the actual design.
both seem mediocre, really.
Thank G-d.
From the Grafton Hall story link, this quote: 'Crispin Harris of Jackson Stops and Staff, who has been advising on the design, said “it is our experience that this is just the kind of house that our wealthier clients are looking for.”'
This is the smoking gun that proves the modernist critique of stylistic historiocity.
some of these quotes are gems:
'You can design something Classical but can still innovate,' Adam added. 'For instance I've looked at a new, variation of the Corinthian capital and at a different treatment of the base which have been combined in the entrance elevation.'
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