Comments on: Farrer Court by Zaha Hadid

By: rrrrrrr

rrrrrrr — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:30:42 +0000

pretty poor show i think,
the way the towers terminate really doesn’t work,
and wavywavywavy building meeting the ground
in the way these do just makes them appear like vases.
pretty sure if zaha’s office designed vases they’d look like this.
as for wavywavy facades… wow big deal, the floor plates
inside don’t change at all, the way people use the building hasn’t
changed at all, in fact what is the difference between this and
a standard condo development?
the name and wavywavy facade

By: Franz

Franz — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:16:45 +0000

At least Zaha Hadid did won a Pritzker Prize. Calatrava sucks big time.

By: rick deckard

rick deckard — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:01:56 +0000

teabag - i have to correct you, as a foreign architect who has worked in singapore for several years, this is not a case of helping a young country put itself onto the map, and you do a dis-service to the immense design talent already in singapore. this is simply a case of a misguided ignorant developer jumping onto a bandwagon trying to differentiate their product and compete with keppel land who have got libeskind to do some insane towers at keppel bay. trust me singapore already has enough talent on the island to produce something far superior to this, but as usual are never given the chance to flex their design muscle - because clients are fixated on foreign names and brands. they never stop to think that perhaps singapore architects are quite capable of doing something fresh and exciting for themselves. if you look at the new 50 storey hdb tower by arc-studio, this local architect beat foster oma etc..only when asian clients lose their fixation with foreign architects and start to nurture their own talent will be see less of this ‘wallpaper’ syndrome with foreign architects churning out second rate designs for a climate and market they clearly dont understand. singapore deserves much better than this.

By: wart

wart — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:54:20 +0000

i believe the next comin Pritzker Prize winner will be calatrava!
qualification of unesco heritage site will be pullbacked if the properties is not maintained/managed well!so how about if Pritzker Prize will be pullbacked???????

By: sam

sam — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:21:50 +0000

From an urban planning perspective, this is no different than Corbusier’s “asterisks in the park” concept that has proven a complete failure.
At least for the poor in housing projects in places like greater New York.
Of course, this is clearly for the rich, so I guess they’ll have drivers, grocery delivery, dry cleaning service, etc etc etc.

By: TOMO

TOMO — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:48:36 +0000

Zaha…….Never quite there, yet more corporate by the minute…

By: qutianyi

qutianyi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:23:44 +0000

not as good as the projects she designed before

By: atomant

atomant — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:14:03 +0000

teabag: soo, just let a named architect do a bad design and leave it there or maybe demolish it in 5 years? If you can’t get it right, don’t do it.

By: TeaBag

TeaBag — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:13:47 +0000

It’s amazing how negative everyone is about this. Can people please try and look at the bigger picture instead of immediately slagging it off?

It is NOT simply about judging a rendering - it is what it can or does signify for a specific culture.

Bear in mind the social implications of this project in a place like Singapore. I’m guessing most of you have never even been there so you could not possibly understand the state of our highrises (not good, aesthetically UNpleasing,boring,aged…)

Singapore is a very young country (43 years old) and has a very very weak arts/architecture scene. No one has ever dared to do building’s such as this until now because of wanting to stick to the convetional.

ASIA IS all about brands and names. It is inevitable that a developer such as capitaland would want to have a renowned architect to do such a huge project. There is no doubt that Zaha’s name gives the project added value and that the brand conscious yuppies of Singapore will snap up these units like hotcakes.

Being a Singaporean myself,having a project like this in Singapore signifies a step the right direction. It is about being more open minded and looking at the bigger picture.

They may not get it right the first time but it has to be done.

By: bozo

bozo — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:44:04 +0000

better than the junk my office is building in Singapore. Christmas bonuses for all the Juniors.