Our friends from ICE (ideas for contemporary environments), an office featured on our first AD Futures, shared with us their proposal for the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award in Dubai. Along with the project, there’s a postscript Ulrich Kirchhoff from ICE sent us which in his words “is way more important than the project itself”.
Postscript
With the recent negative feedback on some websites about the winning entry and the initiative of Bustler to publish all non-winners, we have shockingly realized, that we have not been the only ones, who have been Dubai-tized. Even as we started the project, the boundaries of cynicism, architectural integrity and the potential of just doing anything have been extremely blurred by the word alone – Dubai. Given those parameters, we went down a road, which lies on the verge of our own office integrity and agenda and the insanity of an architect’s wet dream. Not that we want to start a discussion about ethics in architecture, but it seems that all of us are responsible for the direction architecture took. Please find here our last project in that direction.
Architect’s description and more images, after the break. read more »
