Buildings and architecture - good and bad

[Bonefish Blues]

I am getting worse at mis - reading things.
I had to do a double take at the thread title as I read

'Bulldogs and architecture'

Bonehenge:

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/06/08/bonehenge-birds-portchmouth-russum-architects/

 

[bitsandbobs]

I didn't get off the train. Is there a backstory then?

Quite a number of his projects have had "issues". Leaky roofs, collapses during construction, slippery bridges, cladding falling off...

I visited his Oculus building in NYC last year, a major transport hub and part of the ground zero redevelopment. It's less than 10 years old and the floor is already crumbling. And that's aside from the design issues which make it ludicrously difficult to get from the street to the trains.

 

[briantrumpet]

Quite a number of his projects have had "issues". Leaky roofs, collapses during construction, slippery bridges, cladding falling off...

I visited his Oculus building in NYC last year, a major transport hub and part of the ground zero redevelopment. It's less than 10 years old and the floor is already crumbling. And that's aside from the design issues which make it ludicrously difficult to get from the street to the trains.

Ah, thanks. I remember something about a Zaha Hadid fire station where it was apparent she'd focused on the aesthetics more than the practicalities of what a fire station needs to do and the safety aspects required... possibly not an overly rare tendency amongst big name architects...

 

[ColinJ]

Ah, thanks. I remember something about a Zaha Hadid fire station where it was apparent she'd focused on the aesthetics more than the practicalities of what a fire station needs to do and the safety aspects required... possibly not an overly rare tendency amongst big name architects...

Strangely, YouTube recently decided to present me with this video about the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse...



A shocking example of powerful clients pressuring an architect to make changes to a design, structural engineers not pointing out weaknesses in that changed design, a construction company asking for changes to the changes, the structural engineers not checking the changed changes properly, and the architects by then apparently completely out of the loop.

Result - 114 people died!

 

[accountantpete]

Sadly the brutalist Police Station in Wrexham was demolished in 2020