In many of our bigger cities, the drinking fountain disappeared along with police boxes, mile stones and horse troughs. However, a new initiative is attempting to revive this public utility, with the help of some of London’s best design talent.
Six of the city’s leading architectural firms have designed a series of new drinking fountains, as part of the Kiosk Challenge.
— phaidon.com
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I am glad to see a more socially-aware project come out of our office, but I actually wish that it retained some more of her typical dramatic sculptural flamboyance. Redirecting her genre of architecture to serve the public good would be an interesting alternative to the current trend of vilifying it.
This looks like to be the least efficient and most expensive proposal, by a wide margin. And it looks like it would function really well as a bird bath. The birds in the rending should be perched on the 'roof' and washing in the pond, and the whole thing should be spotted with guano.
What would Gehry do? (WWGD)
What would Rem say? (WWRS)
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