Prada Transformer, Position 1: Fashion Exhibition

This takes the biscuit as the single most ridiculous starchitect ego-mess built to date. Such breathtaking hubris cannot fail to invoke nemesis.

Earlier this evening I was looking at Francois de Menil’s website and thinking of the wonder an inspiration of the profession at art of architecture when approached with humility and attention to scale, form, and materials. It is reassuring to know that there are still people out there in the world making something that isn’t, well isn’t this Prada transformer nonsense.

Terry Glenn Phipps

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Love it. It’s such a statement

This building is pretty far out there conceptually but I think it’s great due to that it’s an exhibition and the program is more flexible. I apprectiate that he comes up with these progressive ideas and get’s them built.

would it KILL iwan baan to provide us with slightly bigger photos? ffs, it’s killing my eyes to get a closer look at some of the details…

all you doubters and haters out there…

…bite me

Very creative. Love it.

That pleases some one who is tired of generic show room of vertical gypsum walls. And the space inside is simply, naturally lit, and the visual aspect of the space is the one you have never seen before. Which means original creation of the designer.

For those of you who love his delirious new york, I find not so much value in his book although I could find so much value in his buildings. I read the book twice trying to see what is there inside. Then I began to believe that some people are just echoing what other people are saying, just like some professors do. I haven’t heard my colleagues or some professor say the delirious new york is not so much of a great book. Are we just afraid to go against the trend?

Been inside.
Prada waist down exhibition?
Nice.
Rem’s transformer?
Not so nice.

A little dirty on the inside
badly done detailing
nothing special
just some rubbery material
over structure.

and wot…like it takes
4 cranes and 3 weeks to
“transform”???

Pls Rem next time you
design something for Seoul
try a little harder
(same disappointment as the Leeum Museum)

The world would be boring: – if we couldn’t complain.
if everyone would have the same ideas.
The world would be boring if everything would be alike.

I think this building challenges a lot of what is being digested by architectures students today. It is a very surprising and exciting design because it refuses the familiar ways of addressing obsessions with craft/material, balance, purity or tension.

Yeap, fashion and architecture – may their paths never cross again, ever! zach’s statement is right on the nose and it made me chuckle too. Cheers for that. Precisely what the phat-chick said when looked in the mirror, “no fancy shapes, no wind dia……, result!”

… and “flip” will inevitably be followed by “flop”. Ok ok, I’m outta here!!

Although it dose not have a beautiful aspect,it contains many things.

Stone has summed it up perfectly! haha, well done.