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12 Jan 08

Why Foster's Hearst Tower is no gherkin | Critique | Architectural Record

Page 2 of article (see previous bookmark: "Via A Daily Dose of Architecture (http://archidose.blogspot.com/), a pointer to a great article by Robert Campbell on why Foster's Hearst Tower is not a successful building.)

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Why Foster's Hearst Tower is no gherkin | Critique | Architectural Record

Via A Daily Dose of Architecture (http://archidose.blogspot.com/), a pointer to a great article by Robert Campbell on why Foster's Hearst Tower is not a successful building. (This bookmarks p.1, but there's a second page, too.) I like Campbell's allusion to our human proclivity for *resemblance* -- I think that's right, and it's what painting used to do with *likeness* too. We can pretend that we're past that, have outgrown it, etc., but it just wouldn't be true.

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22 Dec 07

Slow architecture that tastes good - Times Online

Dyckhoff on the Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture

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  • after a year in which environmental and societal
    issues have been hauled up the political agenda across the world, even
    within architecture - supposedly the form of culture most connected to
    social and political topics, yet so often one ruled simply by money and ego
    - the AR awards, with their tendency towards good honest, well made, but
    still ambitious projects, seem not perverse, but stunningly prescient.
    China, Dubai, Moscow or Kazakhstan apart, there’s a shift among many young
    architects away from flash, if lucrative, bling buildings and towards, what?
    The uniconic? The spiritual leader of this not-quite-movement, Swiss
    architect Peter Zumthor, calls it slow architecture. Like slow food, this is
    about local produce that tastes good. It’s about that hard-to-define idea,
    integrity. Architecturally, it means back to basics building: providing
    beautiful shelter, addressing human needs with architecture which has
    longevity and presence, undeniably modern but also showing the mark of human
    hand. Its response to the bombast, fakery and crash-bang-wallop of
    globalisation is radical in its reactionariness.
21 Dec 07

'Let's Talk About Love,' by Carl Wilson -- New York Magazine Book Review

- review by Sam Anderson of Carl Wilson (music critic of Globe & Mail) book about Celine Dion

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