Posts Tagged ‘design’
Why I Like the Canadian Olympic Pavillion
It's very classically a shed. What could be more Canadian? It looks like you could buy it at Canadian Tire. In fact, one wonders why they didn't go a small step further and invest the $9.2 it cost in actual sheds and duct tape them together. They could have bought 920 of these babies and after the games they could have distributed them to backyard [...]
Reading architecture – Frank Gehry’s Art Gallery of Ontario
Bruce Mau, whose studio has done a lot of work with Frank Gehry, once described Bilbao as a home run. Today even calling it a grand slam would be an understatement; the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain made an impoverished industrial wasteland of a city into an international destination. Gehry's reno of the Art Gallery of Ontario is less [...]
