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- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21The only thing I like about Louis Vuitton's merchandise is that it shows me which women to stay the hell away from.
Only materialistic bitches will spend $1000 on something that holds gum and makeup. - awm4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20In the picture the building looks like a crumpled up piece of trash
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Actually some architects would kill to do designs like that. You don't get much of a chance to break out of the damn box. I envy this guy
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Frank Gehry, you're a genius!
(Simpsons) - mugenkeiji, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10coheedcollapse:
Louis Vuitton is a designer for poor/middle-class hairdressers with aspirations (and, apparently, all Asian women). Anyone who buys LV should rightly be viewed with disdain, for it is only a pathetic example of conspicuous consumption, and one rendered useless because LV is such a trashy, consumer designer.
I would not think twice about a person who spent $5,000 on a designer handbag and showed a little taste, though, if her income was sufficient that it wasn't a matter of spending far beyond her means in a tawdry attempt to impress pleb friends. Would it cost $5,000 in materials? Of course not, but there is not the degree of pretence associated when a person has a sufficient income that everything bought can easily be, and is, expensive. - bludo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10It looks like someone stepped by accident on the scale model
- Tempest811, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5id be interested in seeing the floorplans...or interior renders. im curious as to whether the inside resembles the "busy" outside.
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Are you kidding? I want my house to look like that.
But only if i get to keep a ninja army in the back yard. - scottmoss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7127 million.... I guess it doesn't seem like much when you take into account that their (rubber) duffel bags start at $700 and go up into the thousands..... I will keep my old, cheap leather one! But a cool building at any cost.....
- xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9My guess is that as the architect was designing the building he became frustrated with his work and crumpled his paper into a wad. He looked at it and suddenly thought he had an epiphany. And so was born the trash building.
- rtbenson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They should call it the Luis Vuitton Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want to do Other Things Good Too.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A little racist are you?
- macbookpromat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hate destructionism! God this building is so fugly it doesn't even deserve to be bombed!
- freebird4, on 10/12/2007, -11/+14What a monstrosity.
- therippa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Shouldn't the entire thing be covered in the LV pattern?
- freeb26, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4built on a bunch of old bags.... and a lot of young ones too....
- hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Rubbish! How do the people fit inside the building? Its for handbag designers, not ants!
- urbandistrict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Frank Gehry is credited for the works, but I'm willing to bet a half of a sandwich one of his many Lead Architects made this work of art.
I personally like the studio's more simplified works better. (Gehry Tower, Disney Concert Hall, Fisher Center)
This building is not boring, to say the least. For that alone it more than deserves praise. - djepik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Great Building, I can't wait to see it built. But C'mon guys at least come up with a cooler name than the "foundation for creation". Maybe it sounds better in French, but the only places I know of with rhyming names are ghetto style pizza places.
- pauljaroszewski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bois de Boulogne...lol. scary at night.
- leomyhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What is this, the center for ants?! It needs to be at least 3 times as big!
- janmc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm an architect, and I don't like it. Then again, I don't like Louis Vuitton, so maybe that's not surprising. The Guggenheim Bilbao is extremely cool, but I think Gehry has run out of inspiration recently.
It'll be extremely impressive when it's built, but impressive does not equate to good design. - Vector713, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2my thoughts exactly..
As an architecture student, I appreciate its abstractness, but it seriously looks like a ball of saran wrap from a distance... - Saiing, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7The world's greatest monument for selling run-of-the-mill crap at ridiculous prices. Kinda fitting really that their building should be all about style over substance.
- Blakechi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Interesting, but where's the stainless steel cladding?
Mock now, but in 100 years he'll be considered a visionary architect. - gboodhoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@Urusai:
you couldn't be more wrong about usable design or masturbation. How sad that in the face of significant developments in materials science, design technology, and construction techniques you feel the need to retreat to a questionable 1950's ideal of "functional living"
Wake up. 90 degree angles and perfect squares aren't found in our bodies or in nature. What you call "maintainable space" is a profoundly lowest common denominator solution that dehumanizes individuals and maintains ridiculous notions of hierarchy.
I'm better than that and so are you! - lordfly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen the documentary about Gehry's work and creative process... as a planning student and amateur architecture nerd, I can't see I see the genius in his work. He literally just crumples things together (or tells his employees to while he dictates) until it "looks right".
But who am I to argue, I don't get paid millions for this... - tinkafoo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Frank Genry = let's take some soda pop cans, crush them, pile them up in the middle of a city, and sell it for millions!
I gotta admit, the subtle colors and transparency of the second image is kinda cool though. - eug2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1was a decent press, sucks bout the bust, but better ***** around so w/e heh
- justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@gboodhoo -
Idealism has a place in art, but architecture isn't art, it's design, and in the end the building has to serve a purpose. Part of that is to impress and inspire our society, but another part of it is to provide shelter, facilities, etc. If you have the opportunity to save some money on structural engineering and materials to accomodate more practical considerations it isn't being "dehumanizing" - it's being responsible. Think of the reasons that you are alive and comfortable and healthy right now. A lot of that has to do with our heritage - the work and sacrifices other generations have made to provide a sustainable civilization - their decisions to contribute to the greater good in functional, practical ways. If you think that this is beautiful DESIGN - then I can't say that you have any notion of an individual's responsibility to his/her society outside of explicit economic contracts. While there is nothing logically inconsisntent with that point of view, I think it's hard for you to describe minimalist architecture as dehumanizing, when $20 million of the engineering budget for this building could have gone to feeding starving children, or immunizations, or a thousand other things. A real genius architect would have designed something equally impressive without being so flashy and wasteful.
Robert R Wilson of CERN once told Congress that the laboratory's research would not directly aid in the defense of our nation, except to make the nation worth defending. We have always made frivolous decisions as a society, but can you really put Gehry's architecture on the same plane as the research at CERN? - eug2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1www.duggmirror.com
- bloodmoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That second picture looks like the beginning of Logan's Run or some crap.
- therippa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I want to modify the wikipedia entry to reflect your first blurb...priceless!
- J3Holaday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amen
- dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Tech buffoons FTL... 90% of these commentors have no idea who Frank Gehry is, or the impact his design has had on modern architecture... I'm no architecture snob, but he is probably the most famous living architect.
I imagine, though, if everyone remembered that he was in the "Think Different" ads, they would be lining up to suck his dick... - brianbennett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a big difference between 'outside the box' and utter crap. This is definitely the latter.
I'd pity the contractor on this project. - bombadier337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like it was already bombed....
- billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1blah, double post.
- justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's hard for me to psychologically justify spending this much money on a building just to make it purdy. I am not saying that buildings shouldn't be beautiful, but I think the percentage of the budget that went into making this a work of art may have been a little too high (once again, my opinion) - and I mean the money that's going to be spent on materials, structural engineering, etc. Doesn't the guggenheim at bilbao use lots of pure titanium? Anyway, if this building isn't completely solar powered, or something like that, then the money could have been better spent, in my opinion. I think it's gorgeous, but perhaps a little wasteful.
Gehry himself admits to being uncertain about his design style, and has suggested that if he is wrong, then the market will bear that out. It's hard to take him seriously when he takes such little responsibility for his design strategy. - billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a fan of Gehry's architecture (links below) I have to say this one *might* push it a bit too far, looking at first glance more like a mess than anything else. But it'll undoubtedly be spectacular to behold; I'll never forget seeing some of Gehry's buildings when I visited Dusseldorf, Germany last year. My friends and I spent at least half an hour just checking them out, from all angles. They seem so full of life and energy, you can't help but feel the spark of curiosity when you see them.
http://www.itea.arcelor.com/imagenes/edificios/estado/223-126-Guggenheim%20(Large).jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Prague_-_Dancing_House.jpg - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yet another crashed jumbo-jet as architecture.
http://www.emplive.org/aboutEMP/index.asp?categoryID=157 - Paintbait, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1....is all I have to say.
- MrZaiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kanye West just got a hard on
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ugly bags, uglier architecture models.
No doubt these buildings will cost more than a spacecraft. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why are people digging down the Zoolander reference?
- diulei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope the real thing looks better than the concept. Looks like someone got his hands on a 3D rendering program and went nuts with tutorials and random seeds.
As far as LV + luxury goods go, if you buy it for soley for the name and can't afford it, maybe that says a little something about you and you need to rethink some things. If you _can_ afford it, by all means, do it. I have a few designer items myself (but nothing over the $500 mark. I'd rather buy a new computer). - C4RL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@scottmoss
You might stick with a $700 bag ... because for $2k you get a square foot of floor space.
$127,000,000 / 65,000 ft^2 = $1,954 / ft^2 - kooftspc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Although a bit off topic...
I think it's really pathetic that a big name (though, for the most hideous products on the face of the earth) must resort to advertising in the ever-so-tired world of, "bling, bling," and weed smoking to advertise an otherwise exhausted product.
Have any fellow diggers watched a, "rap," video in the past two years??
I think it's safe to say that when a man with a self proclaimed worth of a mere 50 cents becomes your spokesman, you're *****!!
***** PLEASE!!! - Yashu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I prefer more functional designs... more functional, yet wonders in their own right. Alot of the skyscrapers going up in saudi arabia (the same country that sent guys to destroy american skyscrapers... ironic eh?) are pretty neat-o.
Let this ghery guy design a 100 story mutli-use skyscraper with beauty in form and function, and watch him fail. Crumpled trash does not stack well. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Louis gave me a WTF look when I presented him with an Origami Boulder for his birthday two years ago, but I see he found it inspiring after all.
http://www.origamiboulder.com/index.htm -
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