2008.02.17
Lame Architecture
Why is it that architects these days have “plans” to turn our cities into weird fantasy theme parks? Can’t they design buildings that conform to humanity instead of creatures from another planet? I mean, it’s bad enough that the design for the upcoming Transbay Terminal sucks. Now some firm called Iwamoto Scott (who I won’t link to because their site resizes your window and fucks things up just like their city plans) is fantasizing about making San Francisco look like… What is that? An alien civilization? A garden?
Dezeen has a few more pictures. Frighteningly this design won the History Channel’s San Francisco City of the Future award.
Seriously, if they are planning and hoping to make this into reality I will fight it. I know we have to make drastic changes in how we plan cities in terms of energy self-sufficiency, water usage, population increases, public transportation, recycling, etc, but that’s no reason to turn the look of a city into something so crappy.
Categorized: grrr san francisco technology
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2 Responses to “Lame Architecture”
- douglas says (February 18th, 2008 at 12:57:41 )
And thinking of somewhat self-sufficient cities, I found this link about growing food underground (which would also work in any indoor place, really).
- Zapski says (February 22nd, 2008 at 09:08:29 )
Ick. It looks like a giant pasta city. And the descriptions are full of all the current buzzwords of futurists; hydrogen, nano, hover. Dumb.
