http://www.oobject.com/category/15-skyscrapers-on-hold
To be frank – I don’t like any of them. Put on hold? Not a loss in my book! I admit that those are just renders and the built buildings might look different when built and might actually look nice, but still I think many, if not all of them are badly designed, and some of them are just really really ugly. The website so aptly puts it: they reflect of a period where architecture firms were so overloaded with work to think very hard about the designs.
Some people (writers and editors lah) have been ruminating that the recession has its advantages for architecture as they allow architects to work at a slower pace and actually think about what they are doing. Without going too in detail about all the other stuff they write in their articles, I’ll be the first one to say that a little more thinking never hurts anyone, especially when what you’re doing affects people on several scales and indirectly affects the society and the environment you build in.
The Wedding Palace, Moscow. My opinion: why? WHY???
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