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December 31, 2006
From Bach to Borat
New Jersey Star-Ledger's best and worst of 2006:
LOATHED: Our region's continuing inability to build anything truly remarkable and architecturally interesting on a grand scale. Not just at Ground Zero -- anywhere at all. Even on the site of Bruce Ratner's proposed Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, designed by California architect Frank Gehry (who did just open his first building in Manhattan, a modest office structure for media tycoon Barry Diller). Gehry's dubious residential-high-rise-cum-NJ Nets-arena may get built, but the current design is less than impressive. Cities in Europe, China, Japan, the Persian Gulf and Malaysia, are able to mount world-class projects with success, often using cutting-edge computer-assisted design functions. Hint: Focus on fulfilling human needs, not economic return.
Posted by amy at December 31, 2006 11:25 AM