Posted Jul 11, 2007, 10:30 PM
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^^ True enough. Gherkin is a bit of an extreme example.
What I am looking for, in a broader sense, are buildings that really have something to say. Modernism in its time had very powerful symbolic, ideological, and aesthetic meaning behind it that spoke to people. I'm not sure that is holds those values today, and hence buildings like 300, which artistically are not much of a departure, are lessened.
Since every building can't be - shouldn't be? - a Gherkin, I'd be interested to see buildings that have more to say about environmental concerns, lifestyles in the city, new definitions/ideas about sidewalk interaction, etc. What about new means of interaction between office workers - or flow of information in a digital age? There are tons of ideas and valid reasons to reconsider the old form of office buildings. Foster's trademark sky gardens are a good example of a fairly cost-effective change.
In any case, we should be happy to have such high-quality design and not a bunch of schlock like so much of what's being built across the country.
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