Comments on: Hermitage Plaza by Foster + Partners http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/12/hermitage-plaza-by-foster-partners/ architecture and design magazine Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 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.

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