[QUOTE=FredH;5927712]James Lileks in his blog today talks about urban renewal in his hometown of Minneapolis...but the statement applies just as well to Los Angeles.
"Like most of Gehry's work, it's
glass-shards in a Jiffy-Pop bag. It's not as if they had to go classical on the site - but almost anything streamlined
Moderne from the 1939 World's Fair would have fit, and have adopted itself to the glories the site presented. As modern and spare as Moderne was,
it still belonged to the previous tradition. It belonged."
"But everyone wants a Gehry; everyone wants a Neimeyer. Just one! And if there's a piece of the past we have to sacrifice, well, there's plenty
of that. Until there isn't."
If you want ugliness to dominate your city, be sure to hire Gehry as your architect. His designs are nothing more than wadded up tin foil made-large into a grotesque structure.
Here is Mr. Gehry 'designing' a building.
