John,
Although I suspect that we disagree on many things (judging from the tone
of some of your posts), I want to thank you for the time and effort
involved in posting the NYT stuff, particularly the articles which come
from the weekday sections (the Home section is not distributed nationally).
Out here in the hinterlands, news from the Apple is hard to come by (for
better or worse) and your posts are much appreciated.
BTW, I assume that you are not restricting the psots to those articles
which bash what you term Decon, are you? Is there a hidden agenda at work
here?
Many thanks.
>The New York Times, October 6, 1994
>
>Another Design That People
>Love to Hate
>
>[Zaha's drawing of project]
>
>By Lucie Young
>
>
>BRITAIN'S foremost female architect, Iraqi-born
>Zaha Hadid, may take small comfort from the
>fact that her design for the Cardiff Opera House
>in Wales is being compared with that of the Eiffel Tow-
>er -- which much of the public initially loathed. Last
>month, after Ms. Hadid's design won an international
>competition, a television poll in Wales found that 89
>percent of respondents disliked her proposal. " 'A
>ripped-open shoe box with a TV inside' is how I heard it
>described," said Nick Horton, a reporter at The West-
>ern Mail and Echo in Cardiff.
>
> In defense of her building design, with its super-
>stretch geometry and dynamic zigzag lines, Ms. Hadid,
>44, said she was trying to move away from the tradi-
>tional blocky opera house to "something more modern
>and urban." A low-rise concrete and glass structure
>holding rehearsal space and offices, takes the shape of
>a "street" that wraps around a courtyard containing
>an auditorium. Will it get the royal seal of approval?
>Ms. Hadid thinks not.
>
>-------------------
>END
Although I suspect that we disagree on many things (judging from the tone
of some of your posts), I want to thank you for the time and effort
involved in posting the NYT stuff, particularly the articles which come
from the weekday sections (the Home section is not distributed nationally).
Out here in the hinterlands, news from the Apple is hard to come by (for
better or worse) and your posts are much appreciated.
BTW, I assume that you are not restricting the psots to those articles
which bash what you term Decon, are you? Is there a hidden agenda at work
here?
Many thanks.
>The New York Times, October 6, 1994
>
>Another Design That People
>Love to Hate
>
>[Zaha's drawing of project]
>
>By Lucie Young
>
>
>BRITAIN'S foremost female architect, Iraqi-born
>Zaha Hadid, may take small comfort from the
>fact that her design for the Cardiff Opera House
>in Wales is being compared with that of the Eiffel Tow-
>er -- which much of the public initially loathed. Last
>month, after Ms. Hadid's design won an international
>competition, a television poll in Wales found that 89
>percent of respondents disliked her proposal. " 'A
>ripped-open shoe box with a TV inside' is how I heard it
>described," said Nick Horton, a reporter at The West-
>ern Mail and Echo in Cardiff.
>
> In defense of her building design, with its super-
>stretch geometry and dynamic zigzag lines, Ms. Hadid,
>44, said she was trying to move away from the tradi-
>tional blocky opera house to "something more modern
>and urban." A low-rise concrete and glass structure
>holding rehearsal space and offices, takes the shape of
>a "street" that wraps around a courtyard containing
>an auditorium. Will it get the royal seal of approval?
>Ms. Hadid thinks not.
>
>-------------------
>END