Comments on: More images of Gehry’s Abu Dhabi Guggenheim

By: zeena

zeena — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:01:24 +0000

Je crois que j’aime beaucoup la maquette, et je suis curieuse et intéressée de voir le bâti réalisé, et l’intérieur ; ça ressemble à des constructions avec des boites à cadeaux en carton, c’est léger et enfantin…

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Replica Designer Handbags — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:02:34 +0000

from these pics , i have the feeling from outer space.

By: jackrabbit

jackrabbit — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:22:29 +0000

the scale is all wrong.

By: sadiqa

sadiqa — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:14:38 +0000

gehry seemz to b a megalomanic patient!!!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:26:08 +0000

All modern architecture looks great as a model. But once it is scaled up it is unliveable and a monster. Architects think in the model size all the time. It is how they construct. But real life is about interest on a small scale. People will have to walk around this jumble – what do they do then? Watch kids when they walk – they want to be fascinated by the immediate and small. It all fell apart when architects were no longer builders.

By: armeyn

armeyn — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:26:14 +0000

r.meier: Hey, somebody has something to explain about my model!!
staff : ok, it was my fault Sir, exactly my son, he play basket ball inside our house, then suddenly, bang! the model become like this..
but i have an idea, why don’t we give this model to Gehry?
r.meier: ok, good idea..

By: B

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:19:05 +0000

Now, where among that pile of children blocks is the arabic element present?
I dunno…every since architects decided that it was “inteligent” to close windows to fresh air, they lost me.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:38:12 +0000

I don’t know if i like it or not… I like Gehry, but i’m not a huge fan. But i love that the shape of this museum is as crazy as the silly growth of buildings around there.

from some point of view it’s elegant, some other, it’s messy. I like this contradiction. but i’m no architect…

By: sandbern

sandbern — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:57:36 +0000

i hate all of these “chest-thumping” architects that think they are the hottest thing to ever happen to architecture. They give no thought whatsoever to the quality of light, which is so integral in an art gallery setting. The buildings become objects themselves and give only a secondary thought to the thing which they were commissioned to house: the art. Yes these buildings may be “cool to look at”, but when you take it down to the fundamental question, “are these buildings functional?” you get a resounding “NO!”

By: john graham

john graham — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:48:01 +0000

also, gehry’s hand here is so light. you can see his personality but it’s not overpowering. Zaha Hadid’s buildings are absolutely saturated in her ego. Every inch is part of her vision, there’s no relief, no where to breath. I also feel like she is not as genuine as Gehry. I believe her buildings are attempts at being really cool or futuristic or alienating, or just wierd. She isn’t really being herself, showing us a vision that is intimate. She is trying to be as loud and as new and different as she can, so that her ego is pumped up as large as it can be.