Posted by Richard Haut on May 13, 2002 at 09:39:26:In Reply to: Re: Would you put a Blob in Williamsburg? posted by Will Hayes on May 13, 2002 at 08:03:13:
it is curious that the problems involved in this, and are happening in many other places, seem to come down to such an apparently limited number of design options. 1) keep the old structures; 2) build pastiches of the old structures out of more advanced (i.e. tacky) materials and stuff them closer together; 3) blank-faced quasi-modernist blocks; 4) a "blob".if one looks at automotive design, the results are in many cases more satisfactory. With cars, option 1) implies poverty or eccentricity - or a combination of the two. Car designers have both produced concepts for very advanced vehicles, and retro-look, with variations in between. When further developed, they often result in new types of design which have clear retro influence; the Cruiser and the amazing Prowler being just two examples.
Would it be churlish to suggest that sometimes architects do not work their conceptual thinking through to a more evolved and harmonious solution - but simply stick to a predictable route, where even the 'extraordinary' is hardly a surprise ?
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