World Trade Centre an "old lump of concrete", well-respected architects getting away with designing "abominable" buildings and design competitions "guinea-pigging" suffering of Haitians.
"The old World Trade Centre is an abomination of a building. It's alienating and it shades the river. Inside it is one of the most cavernous soulless places, it is probably even worse than Crown Casino. It's a blight on the north bank of the river. That part of the city is a soulless, sad corner. It's an ugly lump of concrete."
Brisbane Times
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"The trouble with architects who get a reputation for the odd entertaining building is that they then feel able to design abominable ones, shove them wherever they like, and expect the rest of us to be admiring, deferential and grateful. Often we are not."
Telegraph
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"Every time there is a major disaster, the design industry responds by hosting a series of ideas competitions to 'help those in need' … It gives the humanitarian design naysayers the opportunity to point out that our profession is not relevant to the needs of those affected and is, at worse, 'guinea-pigging' the suffering of Haitians."
BD Online
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"If the Equity Trustees building were in London or Paris, there would at least be a plaque at its entrance recounting its rich history and its importance to the development of Australia in the 20th century. But in this country such memory is not considered important and this building is allowed, so far with no outcry from the media, to be diminished in status so that it merely becomes the icing on a developer's cake."
The Age
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"My heart wept to see so many concrete buildings. They were ugly and had no substance. These new building models are an act of arrogance, of alienation from our history. But they are popular with the wealthy elite."
Google
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