How much uglier can it be?

stacey

I dont just find it ugly its tacky as well.

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2006/05/11/ratnerville_update_frank_gehrys_latest_revealed.php

alafairnadia

that thing is so ugly. it's painful.

ana.log

They can't be serious about this. Jesus Christ. Please suggest other cities I could live in, because I really don't think I can tolerate this.

armchair_warrior

i'm soooooooo gonna get flamed for this. its better than a huge empty lot of area that is there as of now.

/puts on flame suit.

alafairnadia

can you imagine? if we have a really dry summer, prospect park or ft. green park will go up in flames from the sun glare alone. ugh.

friendlypitbull

I dont know - I can never tell from these pseudo pictures anyway - I like that there not trying to do some disney-fied version of a 1920's art-deco; but this might be a bit too avant-guarde for me.
I think it might be magnificent at night

armchair_warrior

atleast it doesnt look like his mit buildings lol. those are fugly.

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/images/stata.jpg

emily

This is a joke, right? It looks like the final term project of a first-year architecture student who's been smoking dodgy weed and reading too much Foucault.

armchair_warrior

they be real.

carrie

it kinda does look like the MIT buildings. except with more glass and 40 more stories. ugh.

whyfi

Wow... what, uh... clean... flowing... lines...

:?

alafairnadia

EmilyM wrote: This is a joke, right? It looks like the final term project of a first-year architecture student who's been smoking dodgy weed and reading too much Foucault.

I just got a big lecture on deconstructionist architecture which ended with "and it looks like the building is unfinished, or falling down. it's a trend. a very ugly trend."

ana.log

My favorite quote is this:

"We're trying to understand what is Brooklyn, what is the body language of Brooklyn, and trying to emulate it without copying it. Copying it would trivialize it."

There are so many things wrong with that statement I hardly know where to begin.

stacey

ana.log wrote: My favorite quote is this:

"We're trying to understand what is Brooklyn, what is the body language of Brooklyn, and trying to emulate it without copying it. Copying it would trivialize it."

There are so many things wrong with that statement I hardly know where to begin.

I thought the exact same thing!

escap

How much uglier can it be?

I invite you to go to the site of the yards as they are today, and you can see the answer to that question for yourselves.

carnivore

I added a poll to the top, so everyone can weigh in.

homeowner

Why would you want to build something that makes people ask "Is he a drunk?"

stacey

escap wrote:

How much uglier can it be?

I invite you to go to the site of the yards as they are today, and you can see the answer to that question for yourselves.

In my opinion, if you are going to put something on top of an ugly railyard I would expect it to be a lot nicer looking. Two uglies dont make a pretty (unless your drunk)

ana.log

escap wrote:

How much uglier can it be?

I invite you to go to the site of the yards as they are today, and you can see the answer to that question for yourselves.

I beg to differ. At least there is some semblance of the real "body language of Brooklyn" there now. This isn't Brooklyn - hell, it's not even New York!

emily

Did anyone hear Gehry and the Ratner folks on NPR just now? Way to be patronizing. Lemme see if I can find a link.

idlewild

I think G-d just took a modern art shit.

pensodyssey

ana.log wrote: My favorite quote is this:

"We're trying to understand what is Brooklyn, what is the body language of Brooklyn, and trying to emulate it without copying it. Copying it would trivialize it."

That sounds like the motto of Park Slope.

ratnerville4ever

friends. lets get it straight. the project is NOT over the rail yards.
project, 22 acres. rail yards 8.4 acres.

so can we nip that red herring in the fish bud?

doctorj

I'll come out as a Gehry lover. Bilbao, Prague, Düsseldorf, Hannover. I adore the way these eye-popping structures reflect beautiful but otherwise fairly homogenous pre-modern European habitat into the future. North America is a different story. MIT is so-so, and this derivative design is just one more eyesore in Brooklyn which is already a 19th-20th c. jumble sale; a caricature of chaos, it adds to the noise without going anywhere near far enough.

Disappointed.

liftandcut

Wow, that's uglier than my penis. And bigger too. Sigh.

vanilla

armchair_warrior wrote: fugly.

what, is it the return of the early 90's?

alafairnadia

liftandcut wrote: Wow, that's uglier than my penis. And bigger too. Sigh.

armchair_warrior

vanilla wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]fugly.

what, is it the return of the early 90's? whats wrong with the early 90's . its a great place in time@!!!!!

armchair_warrior

liftandcut wrote: Wow, that's uglier than my penis. And bigger too. Sigh.

bro you must got a huge member!!!!!

vanilla

armchair_warrior wrote: [quote=vanilla][quote=armchair_warrior]fugly.

what, is it the return of the early 90's? whats wrong with the early 90's . its a great place in time@!!!!!

i should have added:::

armchair_warrior

vanilla wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior][quote=vanilla][quote=armchair_warrior]fugly.

what, is it the return of the early 90's? whats wrong with the early 90's . its a great place in time@!!!!!

i should have added::: :P