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Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork
BIG please go back to Europe....
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As much as i love his design philosophy, I'm unfortunately getting more and more annoyed with his New York designs. Ingels is great at designing for European cities, where he is free to establish new and original skyscraper aesthetics in places which don't traditionally have skyscrapers, but New York actually does have skyscrapers, and, if i may add, a highly established local aesthetic for them...
This means that historically, a lot of the more original, out of the box (literally) designs don't age well in NY. I seriously wonder about the future of the BIG Pyramid, for instance. It is a gorgeous building, don't misunderstand me.. but in the future, when it is surrounded on three sides by tall, most likely rectangular buildings, will it still look so good?
The best architects for NY are ones who are able to use Gotham's sharply angular and subtly ominous aesthetic as an asset (SHoP has this perfected Down. To. The. Tee.), rather than see it simply as the barrier of tradition begging to be broken.
My conclusion? What Ingels needs to do is move to LA. He would be able to do there what he has done so well in Europe: create the high-rise aesthetic for a currently low-rise city. If he really worked his magic in SoCal, his influence on the urban fabric of the region could last for hundreds of years.
[Ingels also has something that could give him a lot more power in LA than other architects, which is his deeply human-oriented style and ability to connect with the general population. When people see Ingels's designs and press conferences and youtube videos, its as if they immediately know he's on their side. Likablility is unfortunately something that is very rare in the architecture and development community (especially in LA), and Ingels practically oozes it. If theres anyone on this planet who can break the NIMBYs of LA, it might very well be Bjarke Ingels.]