3 Responses to “My eyes have been violated!”

1. Doug Says:
   February 12th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

   How about Frank Lloyd Wright's "The Illinois"
   500+ stories…. over 1 mile high:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Comment by Doug — February 12, 2007 @ 5:36 pm

2. Tim Berglund Says:
   February 13th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

   Put it this way, Krauze: at least you don't have to live in the same city with it. The thing is a giant postmodern temper tantrum. The best thing that can be said about it is that it's really hard to get a good look at it from any of the major streets nearby.

   There was a delicious article in the Rocky Mountain News a few years before the building opened. It described the sophisticated technology that had to be developed–including never-before-seen CAD software and neat-o construction techniques using lasers–to make a building look like it disobeyed the laws of physics. I can't say we should be surprised that this is a hard thing to do, but the irony of the hyper-modern construction process being put in service of the law-less, limit-less, foundation-less design was apparently lost on the author of the article. Too sweet.

Comment by Tim Berglund — February 13, 2007 @ 10:46 pm

3. Douglas Says:
   February 15th, 2007 at 4:51 am

   Weird. Just a week or so ago, while traveling through I think it was Ligonier (or Lagrange?), Indiana, I saw what I thought was the ugliest building that I had ever seen. It was the most prominent building in the downtown area, and was probably 6 stories tall at the peak of its "tower" portion. It's hard to describe, but it was a butt-ugly rust colored stone, done in what I think was the formerly fashionable medieval vomit style. Oh, and the tower portion had four sides, and at the top, was open on those four sides, with giant clock hands centered in the openings. The whole building was just grotesque, and not in any kind of nostalgic or historic sense, either.

   I don't know if one can find pictures of it online, but for all our sakes, I hope not.

Comment by Douglas — February 15, 2007 @ 4:51 am

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