Swiss Re has sold their Gherkin, the most impressive skyline element of London which I have never seen. Ever since it was built in 2003 I've wanted to see this thing, which I find vaguely evocative of Gaudi's turn-of-the century hotel plans which were submitted for rebuilding the World Trade Center site. Lord, I was so excited to think we might actually build something worth looking at and being in... Alas, we're getting some Libeskind crapola -- a design cut from the same cloth as his anti-humanist Jüdisches Museum Berlin, perhaps the least utilitarian museum ever built.
2007-02-05
Art Decoesque Gherkin Sold (Reblog)
Swiss Re has sold their Gherkin, the most impressive skyline element of London which I have never seen. Ever since it was built in 2003 I've wanted to see this thing, which I find vaguely evocative of Gaudi's turn-of-the century hotel plans which were submitted for rebuilding the World Trade Center site. Lord, I was so excited to think we might actually build something worth looking at and being in... Alas, we're getting some Libeskind crapola -- a design cut from the same cloth as his anti-humanist Jüdisches Museum Berlin, perhaps the least utilitarian museum ever built.
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