Summary
HOW are we affected by the design of the buildings we visit in our leisure time? Swimming baths? Theatres? Chiropodists? Architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff argues that architects are now designing buildings which are all about spectacle and cheap thrills (just look at the new Hanley bus station). He claims that, despite the money thrown at these projects, designers have forgotten the true purpose of 'play' - to bring people together for a communal experience. Although he draws the line at a Cheryl Cole concert. From shopping malls to football stadiums and museums, Dyckhoff reveals how important play is in our lives and argues that ever since the commercial success of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, a strange structure with look of several crushed baked bean tins, the buildings we're being given to play in are damaging us.
With their increasingly-crazy, computer-designed looks, they may seem playful, he says, but these individualistic, flashy, narcissistic icons produce an increasingly alienating and fragmented landscape where we feel less joined up and less playful, and make less sense of our world, not more.See the full content of this document
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New Buildings Make No Sense
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