Comments on: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 by Frank Gehry 2

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:08:02 +0000

Good old Gehry branded deconstuctivism (whether it’s his son’s design or not ) . Sign on the dotted line and he’ll airlift in one of his famous sculptures before he’s even visited the site.
Visiting the pavilion I have indeed enjoyed digesting the exploded forms over a coffee but it would be nice to see a Gehry building that has any contextual reference to the location, cultural or geographical.
Art, yes. Architecture? hmmmmm

By: g22

g22 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:49:58 +0000

aw this brings a smile to my face. reminds me of his house in santa monica. old school gehry- love it

By: noodles

noodles — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:47:37 +0000

i like gehry .. but this looks too messy and clustered .. and what a waste of WOOD .. so much wood for something temporary.. well maybe they could use it for something else later (HOPEFULLY)

too much framing for the roof .. looks dizzy-ing .. maybe it wont look as bad when ure actually in it .. hmm .. or maybe not

and the stairs at the side! .. i dont know why but i was so focused on that .. its distracting and it doesnt blend in with the rest … its like “well thats a nice angle to take a photo from .. until u put the STAIRS IN!”

By: oped

oped — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:44:22 +0000

to make it short..

there is some interesting attempts at sculptural randomness as there are in good gehry projects.

but in the end its not good architecture, and it seems a bit of a waste of nice wood.

this project makes the modernist portions of my architectural education shiver in disgust, but maybee thats a good thing.

By: t

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:56:00 +0000

I like it alot, (for many reasons), look forward to visiting (for me it looks like a breath of fresh “wooden” air)..

By: One

One — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:26:17 +0000

Decom In general posed me a question on architect, in a sense that prefession to make thing right,… Remember the architect appeared in Asterix and Oberix, an Egiption architect who could not build the stair case Right…?

Some, like Rem Koolhaas went on t prove his motivation, but others, like … suffer from just being creative or being famous, or libeator…

By: Clive Rogers

Clive Rogers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:38:44 +0000

I think the structure looks as though it is trying too hard.
Sort of forced if you ask me.

By: El Greco

El Greco — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:37:39 +0000

Poop.

A shitty rehash of ideas examined in his house long ago when the determining factor was cost. This reeks of “let’s just toss off a little something for the folly-loving Brits”.

By: sit appenes

sit appenes — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:09:51 +0000

the old man blamed his son for some of the design on a tv interview!
the old man BLAMED his son for some of the design on a tv interview!
the old man blamed his son for some of the design on a tv interview!
the old man BLAMED his son for some of the design on a tv interview!
the old man blamed his son for some of the design on a tv interview!
the old man BLAMED his son for some of the design on a tv interview!

lucky it is not good enough to become a copy paste concept like … well … all the rest he did!

… cmon franky like you anyway … a little … maybe!?

By: Gabs

Gabs — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:13:42 +0000

Been there, totally incoherent