Today the Nakagin is but a vibrant reminder of a path that was not followed, a sculptural ode to an unrealised future. Did anyone truly expect otherwise? This

Today the Nakagin is but a vibrant reminder of a path that was not followed, a sculptural ode to an unrealised future. Did anyone truly expect otherwise? This sort of straw-into-gold intellectual pandering is the meat and potatoes of the art world but buildings are real things that run on people and money. Self-congratulating we're-so-smart-ism tends to get smashed to pieces when it runs into unblinking reality.