“Architects tend to treat them as a building element, but in fact they should think of them as a landscape element, to think how they engage with the ground and the roof of the buildings. Unfortunately, living walls have just become another part of the green eco-bling armoury.”
The Architects’ Journal
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“They are creating gigantic new school buildings that despite their acclaimed architecture are as misguided about the direction of urban education toward small, intimate learning environments as anything in recent memory. In fact, it is in New York where design-savvy administrators like David Burney at the DDC and Janette Sadik-Khan at the DOT are creating new models of cosmopolitanism right under the nose of those who want to believe that ‘nothing has come out of New York in decades.’”
The Architect’s Newspaper
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“The result is a somewhat crude reworking of old ideas, one that looks especially unoriginal when compared with the sophisticated and often dazzling stadiums that have been built in Europe and the Far East over the last few years. Worse for fans, its lounges and concourses are so sprawling that I suspect more than a few spectators will get lost and miss the second-half kickoff.”
New York Times
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“When one level of government gets money from another level of government, they don't have to pay the political price for spending it. When they don't have to look the taxpayer in the eye, this is what results from it — ‘I'm going to take an extra six or eight million so we can do things like can paint clouds on the bottom of a pedestrian bridge’ ”
Calgary Herald
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“I was initially surprised at how ‘safe’ a lot of the entries seemed. The Sauerbruch Hutton with NH Architecture submission looked like something that inhabits a modern industrial park. Looking past this façade I saw that they had developed some interesting program arrangements and tiered rooftop gardens. The KoningEizenberg with William J Mitchell and Gehry Technologies entry looked unremarkably institutional and was certainly not what I was expecting from a team with ‘Gehry’ in their name.”
The Generator
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