"Architects are not plumbers"
-John Maeda, Prof of Tech, MIT Media Labs
Every rag and digital fish-wrapper in the trade has written about this in the past 2 weeks, and I would feel remiss if I didn't chime in.
First, in that grand-old tradition of news-hound alliteration, a roundup:
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1. Gehry designs a garish garage (sans-guilloche) for goofy geeks!
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2. The geeks are glorified at how the garish garage, (sans-guilloche) will glimmer!
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3. Bob, the builder, bickers that the building is too bombastic to be built!
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4. Frank follows not, and fantasizes about the features of his facade! (this is getting fachachte, ed.)
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5. Bob, the builder, bitterly bites the bullet and builds the bombastic building!
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6. Regretfully, the roof of the rotund residence is not repellant to rain (a reprisal is required!)
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7. Sad Stata owner sues the shirt off of said star-chitect!
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So anyhoo, everyone is pissing in everyone's cheerios about a building that leaked when it wasn't supposed to.
You might claim that Frank wanted to create his own version of Falling Water, but I couldn't possibly comment on that. (rim-shot, ed.)
And the broadsheets are bristling:
the Globe
the Trib
the Times
the Post
