If you look at new buildings design in recent years you’ll notice that buildings don’t look like buildings anymore; they’re becoming objects. They’re objectified.
Just change the scale of these towers and you’ll have beautiful candelabra for your dining table. Add a few buttons to this building and voila; here’s your next generation wireless device.
Dancing towers, z-shaped office buildings, and rotating floors, buildings are toys!
With the advance of 3D modeling software, it’s easy to create, document and construct impossible forms and that’s great. But. This doesn’t mean that we should build them.
The stretched forms and tortured angles are insufferably excruciating to look at and show a misplaced strive for individuality at all cost. Architects are creating look-at-me-screaming monsters that societies will have to endure for decades to come and will spend fortunes to take them down in the future.
Yes, Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Museum and Disney Concert Hall are masterpieces, but for every prince there are tens of frogs that make you look and wonder; what were they thinking?
