Comments on: Designs for Burnham Plan Centennial by Zaha Hadid and Ben Van Berkel

By: Burnham Pavilion / UN Studio | ArchDaily

Burnham Pavilion / UN Studio | ArchDaily — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:11:32 +0000

[...] If you want to know more about this pavilion’s background read our previous article. [...]

By: Burnham Pavilion / Zaha Hadid | ArchDaily

Burnham Pavilion / Zaha Hadid | ArchDaily — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:59:14 +0000

[...] by UN Studio and Zaha Hadid have been temporally installed at the Millenium Park (read our previous article about this), hosting multimedia exhibits on the future of Chicago. The pavilions will be opened to the public [...]

By: Peter Klick

Peter Klick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:50:53 +0000

Millenium Park Chicago, New Pavillon: http://bit.ly/XAMRI

By: 2MACoff

2MACoff — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:27:52 +0000

НЕ Я ПАЦАН КОТОРЫЙ ВСЕХ ПОБЕДИД…

By: BROSALIN

BROSALIN — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:00:07 +0000

клевый пикчур….захахадид ты трангладид….

By: AyhamW

AyhamW — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:18:09 +0000

Zaha you are the most powerfull architect on the world . Keep destroing the past zaha! Keep giving us hope of change! …

By: katanaman

katanaman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:07:27 +0000

beam me up Scotty !

By: dgw

dgw — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:30:32 +0000

enough with Zaha, C’mon! That proposal is ridiculous!

By: tor erik

tor erik — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:19:48 +0000

I agree, these pavillions are just stupid and pointless, no function at all. I agree that it should rather be young stundets who got the chance to explore making a piece in the public space, rather than just getting left-hand signature-pieces from established stars. And if so, why not place them, I don’t know, somewhere else than a park? There must be other needs in Chicago than this.

By: evren yildirim

evren yildirim — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:51:50 +0000

calm down everyone… these will all pass… we are going to forget about these in 10-20 years…

this is just an over-exploding trend… an easy way to get contracts…

By: reynot

reynot — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:33:08 +0000

Could someone please put Zaha out of her misery? Please

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:43:32 +0000

I agree with Lucas. Zaha seems to be doing a lot of interventions lately. They are interested from an engineering standpoint, and I understand she was a mathematician before going into architecture, but it is nice to be able to visually read structure every once in a while. The architect is going to be replaced by the computer if we continue to drool over this type of work.

By: Lucas Gray

Lucas Gray — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:50:48 +0000

I like the Van Berkel one quite a bit.

QUESTION:
Why don’t they let young designers from the area have a shot at something like this? Let a studio at a local architecture school take on the project and give birth to the next great architects instead of seeing the same old forms flow from the same starchitects.

By: Francisco Pardo Téllez

Francisco Pardo Téllez — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:19:28 +0000

Espacios escultoricos, recorridos dentro de nuevas formas, texturas y especialmente nuevos materiales… Construcciones temporales, pequeñas maquetas de una arquitectura más organica…

By: Rut

Rut — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:12:39 +0000

The Berkel Pavilion isn’t touching on 2 points but 3. the chosen camera stands are so that you cannot see the other stand.
it’s a bit like a table by Zaha Hadid, but then a bit adjusted…
http://www.stylepark.com/db-images/cms/established_sons/img/p262237_488_336-1.jpg

By: tk

tk — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:07:35 +0000

zaha is washed-up. she and gehrey should both teach pottery.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:33:09 +0000

I still want to know what on earth these things have to do with Burnham. I’m not saying I don’t think they’re beautiful (albeit completely pointless) but I agree that these architects are just phoning it in once again. Have the big dogs lost the ability to think critically, or is that unnecessary in the digital age?

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:05:20 +0000

I prefer the Van Berkel, the zaha piece feels like it’s been done before, like it’s just another math object with some skylights in between the ribs and some ovals booled out. Also a bit too much resemblance, formal and material, to her chanel pavilion.

While I’m not wild about the van berkel either I think the experience of being under all that cantilevered weight could be nice and I like the challenge of it only touching at 2 points. Really needs to lose the plinth though.

By: theDude

theDude — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:51:44 +0000

Van Berkel says: Salvador Dali eat your clocks out! Zaha is welcoming Easter eggerly!

By: NMiller

NMiller — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:08:11 +0000

I think the Berkel pavilion is more interesting from an engineering standpoint. Of the two I think it has the potential to be an interesting piece of public art in the way the Cloud Gate is (the bean shaped silver thing).

I have seen the Zaha one too many times before and I think it feels more like a copy than an original piece(the pleated roof especially)… but it is still ok. It actually reminds me more of Greg Lynn than Zaha (embryological house?)