Comments on: Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum / Trahan Architects

By: Petere

Petere — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:01:33 +0000

Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum / Trahan Architects | ArchDaily http://t.co/Jp4Kh6o via @archdaily

By: as

as — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:06:29 +0000

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By: zac

zac — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:02:25 +0000

Mary Pruitt,
There’s a difference between preservation and perpetuation of history. There are small towns all over the world that welcome this kind of architecture amongst historic buildings. Why do we cling to this idea that new buildings must mimic they’re surroundings in order to belong. It’s just small minded.

By: L. A. McMURTRY

L. A. McMURTRY — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:08:14 +0000

Sir or Madam, your ill-mannered and coarse response to Ms. Pruitt’s post is insensitive and contemptible! However your bloviating is reflective of the boorish manner in which this incompatible exterior design has been inflicted upon an averse community.

Professional architects who practice their art as though people matter are less likely to receive scorn like this design exterior has engendered.

By: mk

mk — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:49:49 +0000

Having studied under Zaha for a full year and seeing first-hand the level of talent and committment, I can say that her forms are exceptionally hard to ‘rip-off’. Her work is not successfully copied on a superficial level because it is simply to hard to do.

I find this design intriguing, and while certainly influenced by the Pritzker-winning architect, the architectural language has been digested and apparently reinterpreted with some rigor. I wish Trahan Architects every luck in completing this project.

By: L. A. McMURTRY

L. A. McMURTRY — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:43:55 +0000

¡Exijo una explicación!

By: Exploring Heritage Resources

Exploring Heritage Resources — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:27 +0000

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By: D

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:54:49 +0000

Obviously they are working with ideas that are influenced by Zaha. But this is the way that architecture has always worked. Architecture develops/disseminates by imitation and influences. But I agree that it is a knee-jerk reaction to call something a Zaha ripoff, and this is not a real criticism, only a shallow comment. Actually any form that has been touched by an animation program, people will say this. This kind of work is dealing with a new (in the past 20 years) language, and it is aggravating that every utterance has to be legitimized or delegitimized with reference to some master-personality.

The way they described this project is shallow, but the project itself has a lot of substance and is an impressive and beautiful demonstration of techniques that the office is working very hard to develop in Baton Rouge of all places.

By: at

at — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:17:14 +0000

Mary: You really went looking for this one didn’t you? Not too much to do these days? It is exactly this attitude that has prevented this project from living up to the excellence and praise of Trahan’s earlier works. The design looks like it still needs development, and I’m sure they will pull off some great details, but such reminiscing about antebellum louisiana days could pull a good project into mediocrity, or worse. A Hayes Towne? Come on. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. “Please get a life”
P.S. I would suggest letting professional architects practice their profession.

By: mary pruitt

mary pruitt — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:08:51 +0000

i am writing this as a plea for re-consideration on the exterior design of the museum. i am a citizen of natch. and i love my city. the historical aspect is what makes the town so unique. your structure would be fine in a cosmoplitan city but in natch. it is a monstasity. i cannot believe that a man of integrity and your expertise would force feed this atrosity to the citizens and tourists of natch. in my opinion it is worse than horrible. change is not always good and this is a ridiculous argument and does not apply. i am 62 years in this beloved town and i have always heard you can’t fight city hall or “the good old boys” please please prove this wrong and change the exterior befor we are forever forced to look at what is just not right. this could be something we could all be proud of instead of it being so controversial.”please tear down this wall” p.s. i would suggest that you please look at a few of hayes townes plans.

By: ema

ema — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:19:57 +0000

plop! como condorito

By: Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum | Selectism.com

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum | Selectism.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:41:09 +0000

[...] The Louisiana State Sports Hall of Fame and Regional History Museum will open its doors in fall of 2011. Trahan Architects handled the design. More info at ArchDaily. [...]

By: abstracted

abstracted — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:19:22 +0000

In response to the Zaha thing, I think one of the project architects at Trahan used to work for Zaha. So that explains a lot.

I tend to prefer Trahan’s earlier work over his new designs. The new stuff just seems like they a trying a little too hard sometimes…

By: Mookie Wilson

Mookie Wilson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:40:51 +0000

Couldn’t they have just made it in the shape of a big football?

By: Abe Froman

Abe Froman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:54:26 +0000

Yeah…let’s bring Dubai to Louisiana!!

By: the dude

the dude — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:26:36 +0000

I am not sure if this project will be accepted by the local region or eventual users of the museum. It seems like an overly complex concept for the purpose or functionality of the building as a sports museum. However that being stated as my case, I still enjoy the depth of the design, and the process used to create such interesting geological/hydro shapes. I just do not translate how this concept directly relates to the history of sports in the region. It just seems like an extremely dynamic design for a seeming static sport/history museum.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:03:26 +0000

german osorio: So only zaha is allowed to do “organic spaces” inside a box? Does this apply for everything and everyone? Are we not allowed for others work to influence our own at all? Haven’t you realized by now that for almost anything that you can think of that you think is original, someone has already thought of it?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:02:05 +0000

Every other image of this project is more interesting than the first one. Why lead off the article with the least appealing image?

By: german osorio

german osorio — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:47:05 +0000

where have i seen this before, the organic spaces inside a box… mmmmm…. zaha hadid rip off!!

By: arch critic

arch critic — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:38:27 +0000

Because they’re LOCAL duuuuhrrr