I almost spit out my coffee this morning (er... afternoon) when I stumbled accross NY Times architecture wonderkind Herbert Muschamp refer to one aspect of a building as "pure bling-bling". The article is about the new Seattle Library by Rem Koolhaas, A young Ph.D. who is up for a position in my department gave a (very uninspiring) lecture on the library as holder and documentor of media in a changing media age (Yawn). The part that was intresting about her talk was the gloss of the plans for the new Seatle Library by Rem Koolhaas which includes a circular stack so that new additons and ways of arrainging the librarys holdings can me made easily, whcih is cool fo' sho'.
The real point is, reading the article it seems as though HM was high as a kite while he was writing it, although, to be honest, that is not a bad place for an architecture critic to be.
Posted by thickeye at May 16, 2004 12:50 PM