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April 18, 2008
Miss Brooklyn monologues
The Brooklyn Paper, Letter to the Editor
To the editor,
I have shown sketches of Frank Gehry’s “Miss Brooklyn” tower to dozens of people and almost everyone who sees it sees what I see: a vagina-shaped entrance that makes it appear that Miss Brooklyn is squatting on her knees at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues (“Gehry to Brooklyn Paper: Miss Brooklyn ain’t dead — in fact, she’s hotter than ever,” Web exclusive, April 4).
I think Gehry’s frontal design is, to put it discreetly, simply naughty. Could he be pulling this satirical trick on us similar to his “Ginger Rogers–Fred Astaire” building in Prague?
Could all of the people who have seen the rendering — architects, designers, students and faculty of design — be crazy?
Brent Porter, Clinton Hill
The writer is an architect and professor at Pratt Institute.
Posted by lumi at April 18, 2008 5:14 AM