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In NYC I lived in Gherry's giant apartment building. One thing that struck me was that the kitchen drawers were inside the kitchen cabinets, so if you wanted to
by liminal 4y ago
In NYC I lived in Gherry's giant apartment building. One thing that struck me was that the kitchen drawers were inside the kitchen cabinets, so if you wanted to get something from the drawer, say a knife, you first needed to open the cabinet. That was an action I could easily do dozens of times in a day and it always irritated me. Apparently, Gherry's office designed the kitchens and (I think) that was done to reduce the number of visual seams(?). Otherwise it was a mostly nice building.
- notjustanymike 4y agoSounds like him and Jony Ive would get along.
- tptacek 4y agoWright had the same kinds of problems, right?
- Zigurd 4y agoIn high school I hung out with a youth group at Unity Temple in Oak Park, which is beautiful but beset by problems. Repairing the cracking exterior surfaces was a major project. Distinctive architecture is risky. At elite levels it amounts to signing up to live, or work, in a major artist's work of sculpture, made with novel methods and materials. Repair becomes equivalent to art conservation. Budget accordingly. The MIT campus is full of similar stories, not just Building 32 (Stata Center).
- tptacek 4y agoI just remember a Wright exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry when I was a kid, and them explaining that all the furniture was built in to the house.