Comments on: Storefront for Art and Architecture: White House Redux

By: eraidesigns

eraidesigns — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:09:17 +0000

oops! I meant to say I agree with “Snark.”

By: eraidesigns

eraidesigns — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:04:25 +0000

I agree with Urbanlegend. While one could say the competition was open-ended, the competition did call for ideas for a building -for which designs would be very helpful in conveying. That is not to say that we need technical drawings but even just basic renderings would be nice. I also agree with Urbanlegend that the winning design “Revenge of the lawn” is completely innappropriate and has nothing to do with anything at all let alone this contest. In fact, I am not even sure what is written on the proposal is English. Whoever came up with that proposal must either think they’re funny or be mentally impaired.

By: PatrickP

PatrickP — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:07:39 +0000

Did someone just say “step outside the box?”

By: Brian Bostron

Brian Bostron — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:44:43 +0000

I agree with urbanlegend.

By: urbanlegend

urbanlegend — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:52:34 +0000

well, Snark, the competition called for entries from any one, not only architects. The requirements for the cometition were open ended, meaning there were no requirements for actual architectural drawings – anything that could describe the idea of what to do with the new white house. so i think that the proposal for an “actual building” in this case would have been a bad idea, and would have failed badly…

i liked the winning entry, and i think it covered a lot of the issues that we face in american society, of course in a very absract way.

you should really try to step outside of the box and reconsider the necessity to redesign the box

By: Adrianne Jeffries

Adrianne Jeffries — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:16:25 +0000

i don’t disagree with you.

By: Snark

Snark — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:19:36 +0000

On what basis were they judging – sheer quantity of self-indulgent bullshit? Did they count off for actual diagrams or renderings of an actual building that an actual president could actually live in in Washington DC?

In absolutely none of the winning entries did I even see something that resembled a proposal for an actual building; instead, there were amateurish art projects accompanied by pompous liberal-arts gibberish that conveyed absolutely no meaning at all.