i've been too dazed & staggering-about to write anything lately, as current events defy imagination and leave me entirely speechless. but i miss ranting and so i have stolen this month's entry in my big hero james howard kunstler's "eyesore of the month" to post here because i don't think if i just put a link here that anyone will click on it. what this building reminds me of is this kind of "geek" fashion that's all the rage these days with the geeksters- like clocks that show the time in binary code with LED lights, etc. here, anyway, is something not written by me. i will try to get around to updating this site to include
clusterfuck nation in my sidebar links at the very least because this guy is very funny and has a unique and important perspective on things. and he is the reason i got my shit together to make a big change and move back east. and i am thinking i might volunteer to do his website for him because IMHO it's too klunky and i would like to be able to go to the blog or the eyesore site w/out having to always go to the main page first. when i'm done w/the big rework of
sonny's site (which i also do for free because it's my little way of supporting the arts and sonny is an amazing artist which makes it an honor even though i procrastinate horribly on it) i will give jim k. a holla. anyway:
from clusterfuck nation by james howard kunstler:
Eyesore of the Month - March 2006
Can you fail to be impressed by the malignant stupidity of this building proposed for downtown Louisville, the 61-story Museum Plaza,designed by Rem Koolhaas's Office of Metropolitan Architecture? It violates everything that we can reasonably expect about the energy-scarcefuture -- most particularly the poor prospects for running skyscrapers and megastructures. But even if that were not an issue, and even on its own terms, what a monstrous thing this is! Its attitude to its urban context -- just off Louisville's Main Street -- is so disrespectful that the context is left out altogether in the rendering above. You'd think all that remained of Louisville a few years from now is a post-atomic-blast hardpan desert. Indeed, the aim of all Koolhaas's work has been to confound our expectations about how the city and its buildings ought to work, and to find ever more innovative ways to make people uncomfortable, while doing everything possible to disregard the public realm. Is it not evident by now that the cutting edge of architecture is a razor blade poised against our society's own throat.
Copyright © 1999 -- 2006 James Howard Kunstler
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