4 ms·
I don't even know where to begin with this article. It screams of some hipster annoyance at Facebook (uncool) liking Gehry (cool): "Asking Gehry to design thei
by taligent 14y ago
I don't even know where to begin with this article. It screams of some hipster annoyance at Facebook (uncool) liking Gehry (cool):
"Asking Gehry to design their latest building is the classic no-taste-masked-as-taste, socially accepted anti-establishment move."
- thraveboy 14y agoTotally agree.
- dustincoates 14y agoCompletely agree. I'm no huge fan of Gehry, but if I had Facebook's money I would hire a top-line architect to design my building, too. If they had gotten a drab, soulless building, there'd be complaints they had gone too corporate.
- philwelch 14y agoI don't think it's a hipster comment at all; it's spot on. Gehry doesn't get these projects because he's such a great architect. He gets them because he's a brand with a certain reputation, and the OP basically summed up what that reputation is and what it really means when someone hires Gehry based on that reputation. It's clear Facebook is trying to emulate Apple, but somewhere in the process they missed the entire damned point and took the easy way out.
- jcampbell1 14y agoI agree. My guess is Zuckerberg hired Gehry because that was the only architect whose name he knew. Gehry is very old and his buildings are just expensive attention whores. I really wish he went with someone younger with actual talent. Jeanne Gang would have been a good choice.