Comments on: Slideshow feature: Yongsan International Business District

By: noah gotlib

noah gotlib — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:43:00 +0000

I think that Renzo Piano’s building is awful, except for the spherical observation platform. The MVRDV tower looks sort of like the exploding Twin Towers, and SOM’s tower is a shameless ripoff of the Foster + Partners designs for the WTC and, later, Toronto’s Oxford Place.

Though I actually like the “architectural clusterf*ck” thing they must have been going for when viewed from a far (I honestly think they should do something like this in the Toronto Portlands), it’s obvious they gave no though to walkability or visual appeal at ground level. From the air it is a forest of elegant towers, but at ground level it simply looks like a shopping mall.

By: Jordin Panzram

Jordin Panzram — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:50:00 +0000

The bullcrap… the bullcrap is strong in Yongsan district.

By: Doom

Doom — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:59:23 +0000

It's like each architect tried to be more stupid, more clumsy than the next. Just awful.

By: Robert Schmidt

Robert Schmidt — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:38:14 +0000

Wow, that is a visual mess. Architecture with no understanding of its context is doomed to fail. Do you think any of these architects actually talked to each other? And if they did, do you think they talked about their projects? wow, and these are supposed to be ‘starchitects’…

By: Real Architect

Real Architect — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:43:00 +0000

It’s worse than City Center in Las Vegas. This is what happens when a bunch of starchitects are given free rein to do whatever they please. it makes a mockery of design to suggest that there is any overarching master planning here. Libeskind doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He never did.