Comments on: Hermitage Plaza by Foster + Partners http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/ architecture and design magazine Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: marianne http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-252462 marianne Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:31:45 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-252462 it looks like a last try to fake economic healthiness... it looks like a last try to fake economic healthiness…

]]> By: marianne http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-252461 marianne Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:25:27 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-252461 I'm so tired of that kind of design... faux-techno-towers glowing in the dark (very nice idea... aren't we trying to limitate that kind of lighting polution ?) showing bold structure and a lot and a lot and a lot of glass and yeah, slabs. We are ready for something else. We are bored of generic tower propositions. Small projects are much more inventive these years, much more sensitive, and in line with the actual economic status of the world. I’m so tired of that kind of design… faux-techno-towers glowing in the dark (very nice idea… aren’t we trying to limitate that kind of lighting polution ?) showing bold structure and a lot and a lot and a lot of glass and yeah, slabs.

We are ready for something else. We are bored of generic tower propositions. Small projects are much more inventive these years, much more sensitive, and in line with the actual economic status of the world.

]]> By: Jean Claude http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-245640 Jean Claude Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:41:56 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-245640 Matt, you can not even imagine. how Foster and Partners are capable of doing generic proposals..I would actually call it Copy-Paste Generism...They do lots of generic CORE+SLABS towers...and mostly are using old projects and make them up with new, texture, colour, structure...and by saying that DO BELIEVE ME, i have a very trustful sorces Matt, you can not even imagine. how Foster and Partners are capable of doing generic proposals..I would actually call it Copy-Paste Generism…They do lots of generic CORE+SLABS towers…and mostly are using old projects and make them up with new, texture, colour, structure…and by saying that DO BELIEVE ME, i have a very trustful sorces

]]> By: matt http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-243186 matt Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:50:48 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-243186 actually the proposal in itself is not that generic, it looks like an innovative structure. i don't believe Foster's office would ever design something generic like a core+slabs tower… actually the proposal in itself is not that generic, it looks like an innovative structure.
i don’t believe Foster’s office would ever design something generic like a core+slabs tower…

]]> By: Nm http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-242882 Nm Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:08:52 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-242882 Just what the world needs, more generic towers. Just what the world needs, more generic towers.

]]> By: jean Claude http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-242874 jean Claude Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:41:42 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-242874 I just wonder how can you " establish a distinctive symbol for this new urban destination on the Paris ", when acttially the DISTINCTIVE SYMBOL of la Defence is La Grande Arche , and will always be ,which is sitting on a clear perspective from the champs elysee..And the urban destination is now the Espanade de la Defense,not an imaginary "SUNNY" plazza suizzed in between two Copy Paste towers>Jacques Ferrier `s proposal was so much more URBAN than this extrusion... I just wonder how can you ” establish a distinctive symbol for this new urban destination on the Paris “, when acttially the DISTINCTIVE SYMBOL of la Defence is La Grande Arche , and will always be ,which is sitting on a clear perspective from the champs elysee..And the urban destination is now the Espanade de la Defense,not an imaginary “SUNNY” plazza suizzed in between two Copy Paste towers>Jacques Ferrier `s proposal was so much more URBAN than this extrusion…

]]> By: Scott http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-242639 Scott Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:39:36 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-242639 Is anyone familiar with the british sign of defiance, exhibited by longbow archers? Two fingers, raised high into the air. Is anyone familiar with the british sign of defiance, exhibited by longbow archers?

Two fingers, raised high into the air.

]]> By: Tofy http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-242638 Tofy Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:35:38 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-242638 kissing towers again & again, and then... kissing towers again & again, and then…

]]> By: glue http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-242609 glue Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:00:16 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-242609 It looked better with the horizontal bridge linking the towers in "H" shape. It looked better with the horizontal bridge linking the towers in “H” shape.

]]> By: Osito http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-242582 Osito Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:57:53 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/#comment-242582 How can this be proposed at this time? The Paris condo market is in the dumps, and the suburbs are worse. Who would finance this? How can this be proposed at this time? The Paris condo market is in the dumps, and the suburbs are worse. Who would finance this?

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