Posted by Paul Malo on May 06, 2002 at 09:00:37:In Reply to: Re: World's Ugliest Buildings - stick figure in torment posted by JWmHarmon on May 06, 2002 at 08:52:32:
Of course, ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I suppose there are those who find the Gehry production lovely--not me, as you know.
But I agree that beauty is not an absolute, and much depends upon context. As we've said before, there is a place for the foreground icon, like the Sydney Opera House, which works where it is. Put it on Fifth Avenue, next to the Guggenheim, however, and it would be a disaster. I think that Liebeskind's addition to the V&A in London will be a disaster, as well Gehry's addition to the Corcoran in Washington, DC. We shouldn't sell all-purpose icons to be intruded into any urban situation.
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