Comments on: Duplex by Frank Gehry for Make it Right

By: Aaron Turner

Aaron Turner — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:18:04 +0000

This is a great design. Its got soul. I think the designer must be African-American. It is also one of the few designs not to show thousands of dollars of designer italian furniture and mock “modern art” in the interiors. Not that African-Americans don’t appreciate fine art and design, but be honest before you convey how someone should live in your euro-centric model. If of course your going to render it with black people of the LOWER 9th ward.

By: GTI

GTI — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:31:25 +0000

Watch the roofs fly off during the next hurricane. I thought it was by Michael Graves but it must be by Brad Pitt.

By: Paul, Yorkshire

Paul, Yorkshire — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:20:56 +0000

Is it a timber construction?
What happens when the next Hurricane Katrina comes? needs to be made of something more sturdy.
Building with earth seems more appropriate, if they have got one eye on the budget.

By: Isdekker Forreal

Isdekker Forreal — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:37:54 +0000

Team Gehry should have provided the photo for the other side- That simple flip of the colors would show rather than tell. The fact that this looks more like a house than most of the others I’ve seen should mean something. The ad hoc manner does seem relevant even if it supports a myth (that this piecemeal construction is cheaper- thus isn’t a cheap design- (ie a box) in spite of the stacked efficiencies, but maybe it shouldn’t be?)
And on that confluence that solution’s called a gutter, no?

By: paul

paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:38:05 +0000

in the first picture, left side of the house – there is a porch with a model of a person standing under the roof. In that area – two down sloping roof lines come together right at the porch. I wonder how Frank is dealing with the rain water runoff there. Otherwise, a lot of rain is going to be funneled right onto the porch and/or down to the parking space below. Does ne1 else feel that is a weird roof?

I also agree with Indi about concerns about the roofs during hurricanes / high winds.

By: wartian

wartian — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:27:42 +0000

i think is brad pitt who design this duplex!

By: Vico

Vico — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:11:06 +0000

Nobody knows how to Make It Wrong like old Frankie. This chunk of junk looks like a pastel-toned Noah’s Ark awaiting the next flood.

Toned down for the master of scuptural quiffery, but not quite ostentatious enough for New Orleans, unless this is to be CP3’s new residence. I expect it to stand out like the Banks Family’s Bel Air residence.

By: Isdekker Forreal

Isdekker Forreal — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:09:29 +0000

Shapes hints faints quotes ducks
nice work and to hell with those that don’t get it

By: 0hzone

0hzone — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:40:40 +0000

Nice to see frank returning to the forms of some of his earlier work.

now if he could just sex it up a little.

By: Edwin Dekker

Edwin Dekker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:51:39 +0000

problem with gehry seems to be that when he doesn’t have sky-high budgets… it gets boring. but that’s ok, the same is true for most of his other buildings when you look a bit deeper than the shiny facade…