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Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by liminal on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:25AM (#32096457)
In NYC I lived in Gherry's giant apartment building. One thing that struck me was that the kitchen drawers were inside the kitchen cabinets, so if you wanted to get something from the drawer, say a knife, you first needed to open the cabinet. That was an action I could easily do dozens of times in a day and it always irritated me. Apparently, Gherry's office designed the kitchens and (I think) that was done to reduce the number of visual seams(?). Otherwise it was a mostly nice building.
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by notjustanymike on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:38AM (#32096611)
Sounds like him and Jony Ive would get along.
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by geodel on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:21AM (#32097161)
Jony would design cabinets so slim that one can put only single knife lengthwise in a drawer.
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by cjbgkagh on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:14PM (#32097955)
If you need more than one knife then you are doing it wrong.
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by toyg on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:00PM (#32097763)
Surely you mean a single iKnife™
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by dehrmann on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:16PM (#32097982)
Sometimes, but aside from the use of stainless steel, Ive wouldn't approve of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tptacek on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:22AM (#32097186)
Wright had the same kinds of problems, right?
Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by Zigurd on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:09PM (#32097897)
In high school I hung out with a youth group at Unity Temple in Oak Park, which is beautiful but beset by problems. Repairing the cracking exterior surfaces was a major project.

Distinctive architecture is risky. At elite levels it amounts to signing up to live, or work, in a major artist's work of sculpture, made with novel methods and materials. Repair becomes equivalent to art conservation. Budget accordingly.

The MIT campus is full of similar stories, not just Building 32 (Stata Center).

Re:Frank Gehry has a few things to get off his chest by tptacek on Thursday July 14, 2022 @01:19PM (#32098886)
I just remember a Wright exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry when I was a kid, and them explaining that all the furniture was built in to the house.