Las Vegas' latest casino resort an "absurd simulacrum of another city", the failure of modern architecture and Lord Norman Foster delivers disappointing design for Yale.
"Yet even on these terms CityCenter is a disappointment. It pretends to be a real part of a city rather than just another gloriously absurd simulacrum of another city. One cannot help but be awed by the scale of the project, but the fakes that surround it somehow seem more honest - as well as more fun — because they are at least not pretending that they are part of a sustainable, urban environment."
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"Modern architecture has been a complete disaster - not that it's "modern" in the normal sense of the word. Living in a pseudo-intellectual ghetto, architects spend their time admiring their own and each other's navels, uncaring of public opinion."
BD Online
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"It's hard to imagine a design that would complement the neighborhood less than this one. But, it's highly unlikely, in a city in which parking garages have been approved as planned developments, that a building designed by one of the world's foremost firms would be rejected because it failed to meet the design criteria in the ordinance."
New Haven Register
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"I'll add two more chunks of bad architecture that aren’t literally buildings. One is the tunnels of the Big Dig, which resemble long white-tiled urinals, with filthy black cables on the walls and something that resembles tar paper on the ceilings ... The other is the urban design plan for the area known as the South Boston Waterfront, where traffic planners were given a free hand and responded by creating a world made for cars but alienating for pedestrians."
The Boston Globe
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"This will add thousands of dollars to the cost of purchasing a home and they're also committing taxpayers to hundreds of millions of dollars in new public housing. Where is this money going to come from??"
ABC News
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