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Curbed LA talks to Morphosis' Kim Groves about their design for the Hollywood extension campus of Emerson College.
Curbed LA talks to Morphosis' Kim Groves about their design for the Hollywood extension campus of Emerson College. Curbed LA
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l'Arc de Trash!
i never had kitchens in my dorms.
although when i lived in germany, the local uni dorms were rather nice studios w/ private baths, mini kitchens and balconies for less than $200 a month! damn socialists with their cheap rents and nearly free education!
Yikes!
I used to be a fan of Morphosis but recently their work is really beginning to show that it's time for Mayne to retire or bring in a new crew. I would say the Paris Tower was the first indication that Morphosis just doesn't really have it anymore.
This thing... I don't know where to start. It looks like 3 or 4 projects thrown together. It's like that ill-fated studio project where no one in the group could agree so each person worked on separate components and then merged the files together for the final. This is one case where one secretly hopes the school runs into funding problems and this disaster gets hidden deep within a dusty monograph.
Although in general I think the design strength in LA Architecture today is coming from the smaller offices that tend to appreciate the projects they receive a little more than these starachitects that get things handed to them day and night.
what's wrong with the tour phare?
I admire Morphosis and I’m sure the form and function of the Emerson College extension is reasoned through… but as long as we’re comparing this building to Spreckelsen’s La Grande Arche la Défense in Paris -it’s interesting that in America we fill the void with “stuff” whereas the Danes and French keep it clean and unadulterated. Perhaps when it gets too full Emerson College can rent a mini-storage unit down the street.
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