Question for the Scots

**McClef** · 3rd May 07, 03:35 PM

Final decisions on architecture for public building tend to be left to "the great and the good" with very little reference to those who have to pay for it and live with it.

Maybe we are luckier in Wales as one decision for the Millennium Centre in Cardiff brought about such an outcry that the "winning" design was actually dropped.

And the Senedd Building design is actually quite popular!

**prairieson** · 3rd May 07, 04:09 PM

Oh my, it looks like Frank Gehry took an acid trip, heheh.

**MacWage** · 3rd May 07, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by prairieson

Oh my, it looks like Frank Gehry took an acid trip, heheh.

Again, it's DECONSTRUCTIONIST (as is Gehry).
I'm just don't think a deconstructionist design is the best for a seat of government, GREAT for an art museum, library, aquarium (Georgia Aquarium), stadium/arena, etc., JUST NOT A SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

I'm not a native-country born Scot, so I'm backing out of this thread now.

**prairieson** · 3rd May 07, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by MacWage

Again, it's DECONSTRUCTIONIST (as is Gehry).

Hence the Gehry comment.

...GREAT for an art museum, library, aquarium (Georgia Aquarium), stadium/arena, etc...

Most of the time, anyway. The museum I work at has a Gehry designed building on campus, it's affectionately referred to as "The Bunker" or my personal fave, "The Ugly Building"

Student: Where's this class at?
Me: The Center for Visual Arts.
Student: Where?
Me: The Ugly Building
Student: Ohhh! OK.

I completely agree with you about the appropriateness of it though... or maybe I'm just turning into a curmudgeonly old fart. Most probably the latter, heheh.