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May 23, 2005
Rem & Wal-Mart
Looking back on all the haters fastidious vitrol for 'star architects' like Koolhaas, and their buildings, like the Seattle Public Library, it seems a year later the numbers will bring the real heat to their position: "Daily visits have doubled, circulation is up more than 50 percent, and 26,000 people have lined up just to tour Seattle's new flagship library since it opened a year ago tomorrow." -Seattle Times
Wow - I guess this is good news (good PR for sure), its surely the first fine thing Wal-Mart has ever done for architecture since their insipid takeover of all things localized. They've released designs for their 100,000-SF, $50 million Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, AK. They've enlisted Moshe Safdie to build their homage to American Art and these spiffy new renderings look good - following Moshe's extremely good intuition for site needs, (yea, thats right you modernists, site matters!) ecology, and context.
[via Archinect]
Posted by jmarston at May 23, 2005 05:06 PM