Comments on: Huaxi city centre by MAD and others

By: arjun

arjun — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:05:02 +0000

im pretty sure most of these guys realised the whole scheme was a parody, and if they did not, then im truly terrified.

By: CPH

CPH — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:10:48 +0000

BIGs project is fantastic. Keep an eye on the project leader Niels Lund Petersen, who designed it. He is extremely talented, and just opened his own office…

By: SYED HASAN NASIR

SYED HASAN NASIR — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:21:44 +0000

Ix q’yt intresting to see it! I hope to see them in future and I believe that it would be presented by them very soon. but watever the effort behind even if it is imaginations, I think the reality would be depend upon those imaginitions!

By: zator

zator — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:20:28 +0000

cut them hands offfff!

By: fitty

fitty — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:59:57 +0000

all you guys on dezeen are pathetic. All you guys care if it looks good, or if its ugly.

thats not what architecture is about.

continue worshipping your zaha hadid’s and libeskind’s

By: tokyo_kenchiku

tokyo_kenchiku — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:09:09 +0000

The ammount of minless bitching on this page sickens me.
Almost nobody on this page has made any sort of real critique of the work. NOBODY GIVE A DICK IF YOU ‘Don’t like it’ or ‘dont get it’.

Get off your high-horse, people. You are all so quick to condimn designed buildings because they are “Object Buildings”….Without ever actually looking into the ideas behind the project. To me, it is YOU who have objectified the buildings.
The ideas here are very valid, and I am thankful that at least someone is taking a chance and making a move towards the future…

By: Jelle

Jelle — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:57:19 +0000

If I see this, I’d like to say that the ‘generic’ has more qualities.

By: Focaccia

Focaccia — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:36:04 +0000

This ‘masterplan’ is obsolete the moment the schematic design is out.

Considering that the design workshop took place last summer, the proposal is not really as ‘visionary’ or ‘utopic’ the participants or its promoters made it out to be. It is just one of the many architectural ‘follies’ in the same vein as those in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and in the same league of numerous object-buildings that has mushroomed in East and South Asia in the recent decade, that do not contribute meaningfully to the rest of the city and the man in the street, or the cultural and natural heritage of the context. There is no inkling of the resources that these energy guzzling developments would consume – the sky is the limit when it comes to greed and conflated egos of developers, planners and architects.

These are ‘memorials’ to the crazy days of wildly ballooning financial and property markets, before the bubble burst in Sept 2008, plunging the world into the Great Depression of the 21st century.

In an ironic way, one consolation out of our current crisis is that many of these jobs in the Middle East and overheated economies elsewhere have since been shelved or aborted. Perhaps this is a timely opportunity for us to go back to the drafting table to reflect upon how to create our future cities in a responsible, ethical and sustainable manner.

By: SOS

SOS — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:50:05 +0000

# methodlab Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:52 am

it’s amazing that for many posts here the same arrogance you chastise, is the same you express in your opinions. clearly this is a conceptual piece to open further dialog elsewhere… some being purely form and some exploring new ideas of occupying space and it should be left at that

—–the only real comment I saw in this post

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:27:41 +0000

“we rejected”
who are you?
an mediocre architecture student?
get a grip