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September 3, 2009
Review and Comment
London and Brooklyn
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Henrik Krogius
The Eagle's Krogius ventures across the pond, and appraises the architecture.
[Lord Norman] Foster’s signal contribution to the London skyline is the glass-and-steel Swiss Re building, popularly called the “gherkin” or pickle, but which The London Encyclopedia says looks more like “a fat rocket” on its launching pad. It, at least, looks interesting, but too much of London’s scattered modern building is simply banal, and where it is getting older, it tends to be dirt-streaked and aging badly.
The situation is not unfamiliar to us in Brooklyn, though we don’t have anything as extreme as some of Foster’s work. Of course, if Frank Gehry should be brought back to build Atlantic Yards, we’d have something to talk about.
NoLandGrab: At this point, there's a better chance of the Gherkin lifting off like "a fat rocket" than there is of Frank Gehry designing any Atlantic Yards buildings.
Posted by eric at September 3, 2009 9:56 PM