Comments on: Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower in Dubai / L-A-V-A

By: Student of Architecture

Student of Architecture — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:18:01 +0000

Is this what architecture has been reduced too? Even though Michael Schumacer is a world legend, I believe that to “theme” a building accordingly is a joke and smack in the face of what architecture is and what it should respond to.
And regarding the form, any 1st year monkey can draw this “objet d’Art” in less than two hours on a program as simple as SketchUp.

L-A-V-A should review what architecture is about. Its a social condition, not a fashion parade.

By: Zaki

Zaki — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:58:36 +0000

hehehee- good one :)

By: Mortimer

Mortimer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:18:07 +0000

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I hate architects now.

Almost totally.

Nearly categorically.

And I nearly was one.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:45:17 +0000

I actually like the design, it seems to flow,and kind of resembles several of those FIA trophies that this Schumacher guy has. I hear he actually has quite a few of them. So what’s the big fuss. Let them market the Tower however they ant. Lots of vain people like to be associated with winners. It sells, and frankly, that’s their job, to sell office space. I’d stop in to check it out the next time I’m in Dubai, after it’s actually finished…of course.

By: hakachata

hakachata — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:59:26 +0000

Why wouldn’t they just make it penis-shaped?

By: Dubai Travel

Dubai Travel — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:52:08 +0000

Well done, nice post, comprehensive and well written. Thanks :)

By: Dr. Dot

Dr. Dot — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:27:24 +0000

There are those that hope that Dubai doesn’t grow too fast for its own good.

I’m afraid it has probably already happened. An economy with a single driving element, in this case oil, is a shaky economy indeed, especially with the price of crude in constant flux. There are countless examples of this on the world’s geo-economic landscape, from the factories of Siberia to the oil boom towns of Texas and California USA to the manufacturing plants of out-moded and obsolete items the world over.

By: Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down - Page 2 - TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:19:05 +0000

[...] Since there have been no more posts about the wonder that is Swizzleland, here is another interesting piece about Dubai: Goodbye Dubai | Smashing Telly – A hand picked TV channel Dubai is a place for the shallow and fickle. Tabloid celebrities and worn out sports stars are sponsored by swollen faced, botox injected, perma-tanned European property developers to encourage the type of people who are impressed by fame itself, rather than what originated it, to inhabit pastiche Mediterranean villas on fake islands. Its a grotesquely leveraged version of time-share where people are sold a life in the same way as being peddled a set of steak knives. Funny shaped towers smatter empty neighborhoods, based on designs with unsubtle, eye-catching envelopes but bland floor plans and churned out by the dozen by anonymous minions in brand name architects offices and signed by the boss, unseen, as they fly through the door. This architecture, a three dimensional solidified version of a synthesized musical jingle, consists of ever more preposterous gimmickry – an underwater, revolving, white leather fuck pad or a marina skyscraper with a product placement name that would normally only appeal to teenage boys, such as the preposterous Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower. [...]

By: Kevin O'NEILL

Kevin O'NEILL — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:59:04 +0000

Laughable.

By: Z-lot

Z-lot — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:52:54 +0000

“Lava” must be short for “Lavatory”. The press statement is nothing short of sickening I’m afraid, a product of sensationalistic marketing and cotton-candy PR. You cannot, I repeat, cannot wrap an idea as this one into a project of nicely-sounding words, hoping that 200 buyers will get lured into the trap. This is not a toy for children, big or small.