From: SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com   
      
   In the previous article, David Carson   wrote:   
   > The 76-story New York By Gehry building, once one of the world’s   
   > tallest residential structures, was a stunning addition to the lower   
   > Manhattan skyline when it opened in 2011.   
      
   No one, perhaps outside of professional critics, craps on Frank Gehry   
   more than me, but I gotta admit ... I don't hate this one. It at least   
   looks like a building. And even at that, I think the Manhattan skyline   
   would probably be better served by another glass box. And Lord, do I   
   ever H.A.T.E. the glass boxes. Eh, I guess I do hate it. Just less than   
   his other stuff.   
      
   This isn't Gehry, but it's very obviously influenced by him:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41_Cooper_Square   
      
   I used to go there about once a month for an event series that did not   
   come back from governmental pandemic bullshit. I even remember an   
   event being cancelled for the flooding mentioned in that article. It's   
   only moderately hideous on the outside, but the inside is rife with   
   wasted space and foolish trade-offs. I don't know why organizations   
   who kind of have to care about utility allow architects to bully them   
   into this kind of silliness.   
      
   Particularly appalling is the fact that two overseas Guggenheim   
   museums have signed on to this artistic psychosis, given that the   
   foundation's flagship museum on Fifth Avenue was done by Mr. "satisfy   
   the inhabitants' needs" himself, Frank Lloyd Wright.   
   --   
   jd   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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