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Inside the Ugly: Gehry's IAC HQ Opens

if_i_only_had_a_heart — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:40:57 EDT

so, what do you think the offices are like where the walls are all funny? functional? not?

in chicago, the hancock tower imposes giant sideways crossbeams in the offices of people who work where that part of the structure is; hideous to be there

if_i_only_had_a_heart

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Larry Forney — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:29:18 EDT

The windows are covered in applique, it's shaped like a DQ blizzard, I don't get how it's supposed to be dynamic, it's a mound of semen. When I first saw it I thought it was a sad attempt at Gehry, whatever that means.

Larry Forney

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Ray Gunn — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:26:30 EDT

@Imipolex_G-Unit: If only Marinetti had included that very premise in his futurist manifesto, the movement would have lasted more than a few years.

Ray Gunn

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Imipolex_G-Unit — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:15:32 EDT

@Ray Gunn: So, you're saying the building is a giant baby head that can go from 0 to 60 in under 1.5 seconds? No wonder I like it so much.

Imipolex_G-Unit

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Jamie — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:44:28 EDT

I hated it from the outside, but inside there are awesome free snacks and a nintendo wii and a freaking telescope. It makes me want money and power.

Jamie

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Otto-Reimer — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:49:01 EDT

@The Brazilian: I write for Facades Fälschung, which also doubles as a tribute to your ego.

i ckheced avobe, hte spelenig wsa corecrt. Uyu slepl cehcek yuor cmemnots?

Otto-Reimer

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Constantine — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:47:47 EDT

Thanks for explaining the reference, Ray Gunn. That makes your positive impression of the building a bit more tolerable.

Constantine

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Ray Gunn — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:26:30 EDT

Sorry for the obscure reference, "fast and bulbous" being from a Captain Beefheart song, but yes, it is a compliment.

But rather than getting into a protracted and unwinnable argument over both semantic encoding (fast = good for cars, women, etc. and bulbous = good for cute things like seals and baby heads) as well as aesthetics, let's just agree to disagree.

Ray Gunn

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sailor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:26:14 EDT

@Otto-Reimer: If you learned how to spell, maybe we'd take your architectural criticism a bit more seriously.

Again, just for the record, who do you write for? Architect Manqué?

sailor

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Constantine — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:19:04 EDT

It's fast and bulbous.

That's supposed to be a compliment?

Constantine

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palpitations — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:14:46 EDT

"Fast and bulbous?"

I had something removed from my ass once that looked like the IAC building. The last guy who saw it said it was "oozing and bulbous."

Hindsight is twenty twenty and surrouded by pretention.

palpitations

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Ray Gunn — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:03:02 EDT

@Constantine: False. Sorry. I live here and love the heck out of the thing. It's fast and bulbous.

Ray Gunn

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Constantine — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:45:32 EDT

Gehry creates monstrosities that reflect an outright disdain for urban areas. Inevitably, the only people who enthusiastically rave about the results of his works never seem to live in the same cities in which they are built.

I might also note that it is a sign that a company is going downhill when they start blowing a lot of time, money, and energy on constructing a showy, wannabe-famous headquarters.

Constantine

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air polloi — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:17:52 EDT

@Lucia Toledo: If that doesn't get you a night in the Gold Star Motel, it's because IAC is about to buy out Nick Denton.

air polloi

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Lucia Toledo — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:55:26 EDT

Soon it'll be the only iceberg left in the world.

Lucia Toledo

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worth79 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:55:08 EDT

gehry - designing straight from the ego.

"look at how bold, visionary, and yet oddly unoriginal my latest take on the 'gehry warp' is.."

worth79

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Otto-Reimer — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:44:35 EDT

This building is to industrial design as "Starving Artists" sales at obscure hotel lobbies in New Jersey are to high art.

Cheap, bowdy, and reeking of over-production.

Yes, Gehry, I. M. Pe(e)ing all over your construct.

Otto-Reimer

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Ray Gunn — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:33:59 EDT

Hm. I guess I'm a fan of puffy buildings and puffy sleeves.

Where is everyone's sense of whimsy?

Ray Gunn

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DorothyMantooth — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:29:13 EDT

You know a building is hideous when effing Chelsea Piers looks positively staid in comparison.

DorothyMantooth

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Sue Duhnim — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:13:49 EDT

Where's an aneurism when ya need one????

Sue Duhnim