Magazine names 7 wonders of architecture

cbotnyse · #1 Posted **Mar 26, 2008, 1:11 PM**

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20...ctural_wonders

-Cumulus, an exhibit hall at Danfoss Universe

-Burj Dubai

-London's new Wembley Stadium

-New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC

-Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution

-Red Ribbon, Tanghe River Park, in Qinhuangdao, China

-The Crystal, at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum

can someone provide pictures for these? (I would but I'm at work)

thoughts?

CGII · #2 Posted **Mar 26, 2008, 1:55 PM**

Burj Dubai? Yeah, it's tall, but I would hardly consider it a wonder of architecture.

mdiederi · #3 Posted **Mar 26, 2008, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by cbotnyse

-The Crystal, at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum

I heard they cut the budget and skimped on the quality of material. Libeskind is building another Crystal type structure in Las Vegas that will be much bigger and use higher quality materials.

Patrick · #4 Posted **Mar 27, 2008, 1:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by CGII

Burj Dubai? Yeah, it's tall, but I would hardly consider it a wonder of architecture.

Yeah, I agree, I think the Shanghai World Financial Center is more worthy of being named a wonder, considering how thw way it was built, the challenges it had to face.

MolsonExport · #5 Posted **Mar 27, 2008, 1:20 AM**

The crystal is a pile-o-shite.

niwell · #6 Posted **Mar 27, 2008, 4:26 AM**

The ROM crystal??? It's ok I guess, but certainly no architectural wonder. Even if it did turn out the way it was supposed to (it didn't) I don't think it should achieve such status.

And the Burj Dubai? A modern wonder of engineering I can buy, but it's not particularly groundbreaking in terms of architecture.

Boris2k7 · #7 Posted **Mar 27, 2008, 10:27 AM**

Crystal is rather neat in how it relates to the space around it... but in no way does it deserve such status. At all.

In fact, looking at all the entries really says a lot about how totally clueless Conde Nast is. None of these are particularly notable.

1. Cumulus - ugly, gehry-esque

2. Burj Dubai - okay, it's getting closer here, but a wonder? Nah...

3. Wembley Stadium - it's a sports facility, for god's sake. They removed supporting columns by putting in a massive fucking arch. NEXT!

4. New Museum of Contemporary Art - glass box in urban area. yawn.

5. Kogod Courtyard - entirely derivative of Foster's work at the British Museum

6. Red Ribbon - (?) It's a really long bench? with lights attached to it?

7. Crystal - as I said, it's interesting, but not that interesting. And as other posters have said, the execution looks half-assed. Not to mention that the interior space it creates by interacting with the older sections of ROM isn't exactly useable (it's a big lobby).