Frank Gehry gets to build again in LA
mainThe Philharmonic architect has won the Colburn music school project across the road.
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Gehry is so 1990s. Passé.
The picture says it all. A flabby monstruosity dropped from an alien space ship from a planet exclusively populated with drunk Gehries complimenting each other.
There’s a hideous, coloured building in Vienna’s 3rd district that looks just like this. I used to get seasick whenever I passed in on the tram. Hansel and Gretel came to mind.
Ashamed of its beautiful, timeless architecture, Vienna tries to counter the accusation that it is culturally behind the times, and is prepared to exercise mutilation on the city scape:
http://www.archilovers.com/projects/69386/gallery?508586
http://artlistr.com/zaha-hadid-6-interesting-facts/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hundertwasserhaus_Wien.JPG
https://austria-forum.org/af/Bilder_und_Videos/Bilder_Wien/1230/2623
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/house-attack-vienna-mumok
The utopian ideologies do something to the brains of both architects and city planners, destroying the remnants of cells which have survived the ravages of time. In other words: contrary to appearances, such crazy objects are signs of aesthetic dementia, and demonstrate decomposition.
Do you mean the Hunderwasserhaus? I would hate to see more of them, but whenever I saw it i was amused.
On the other hand, always thought of Vienna’s 70s and 80s public buildings as monstrosities.
It was surely a beautiful skyscraper before it was hit by the A-bomb.
After Salvador Dali went to architecture school …
Brilliant!!
Gehry is the Liberace of architecture.
Brilliant!
Let’s hope solar panels are involved.
Never change, Slipped Disc commenters.
Yes, isn’t it stupid? My guess is that they’re all old fogeys with time on their hands, refusing to go with the developments of modernity! If we didn’t have the idea of modernity, we would miss all those groundbreaking inventions…. the vacuum cleaner… the dish washer… I don’t see why buildings shouldn’t look like car designs or kitschen applications. I’ve 3 hair curlers inspired by Piano’s beautiful office building…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waterboyzoo/13580274744
… and a waste disposal set copied from another of his buildings:
http://www.designcurial.com/news/la-belle-et-la-bte-4380437
Also, I LOVE the courageous way these architects deal with criticism, they are old but their mind is still so young!
https://archinect.com/news/article/111961395/frank-gehry-gives-the-crowd-a-piece-of-his-mind-and-his-middle-finger
Sorry about this…. Sally got in while I was checking the stables. Don’t believe her, she is crazy. (But good at her work, thus far.)
If it is like LA Philharmonic, I’m sure they will put someone sponsored by a Dictator to be the clown of the show.
LA is just so far as an example of great achievements. It is just the biggest promoter of hypeness in the world. Ok, there many ones that love it, and someone will say I must respect it. Let’s make a deal, respect my revulsion and I will at least respect your wishes for grandness.
Global warming is real!! Buildings are melting.
Carp all you will, but the Hall is fantastic in every way, and has helped revive the nabe. Win win.
You’re right, David – so true!
The difficulties of concert halls in such style is the psychological impression they produce: distance to the repertoire that is performed in it, works from past eras as inaccessible objects in a museum. It contributes to what ignorant people call a ‘museum culture’. So, such buildings contribute to the philistine critique of classical music as no longer relevant to the modern world, and thus help undermine the art form.
http://subterraneanreview.blogspot.nl/2018/01/concert-halls-and-distance.html
What a bunch of malarkey! When the LA Phil performs Ligeti and Beethoven on the same program, does that confuse the audience? Is Disney Hall appropriate for Lutoslawski, but not Rachmaninoff?
Classical music does not only consist of sound, but has also a psychological aura. You don’t want to eat excellent food in a garage, however delicious. You don’t want ot have your expensive Bordeaux poured from a cardboard box into a plastic beaker. You don’t want your PA walk around in dirty drags, however fat she may be. Many modern concert halls have not the slightest sign in their ‘outfit’ of musical activity and are sterile, futuristic expressions of their architect. That is not so difficult to see….. for instance, concert programs with Ligeti or Xenakis folded between Tchaikovsky and Ravel (‘shit sandwich’) deny the fundamental difference between sound art and music. In fact, Gehry-style concert halls are best for sound art: they both emanate the denial of humanism and pander to the utopian fantasies of the ignorant.
PS:
The Schermerhorn concert hall in Nashville is much better suited to classical music:
http://www.futuresymphony.org/designing-contextually-in-a-place-without-context/
How many concerts inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall have you actually attended and what were the programs that led you to such negative conclusions? I have heard many critical opinions about the building’s outside appearance, but a far more positive consensus concerning the visual aspect of the auditorium inside which is where music making actually takes place.
LOL
“ignorant people”