Friday, April 15, 2011

basically uninhabitable but highly regarded



In May, for a cover story in The New York Times Magazine, Michael Kimmelman, the chief art critic of The Times, interviewed Richard Tuttle and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, an artist and a poet, who complained that the 1,300-square-foot guesthouse Mr. Holl designed for them in New Mexico had cost more than $600,000, twice its original budget, and was, Mr. Tuttle said, “uninhabitable half the time.” Mr. Holl said that he had received nothing but compliments about the house. (A representative for the artists said they were too busy with current work to offer any further comment.)



Science Museum on Sacramento River which closely resembles failed Fukushima Nuclear Power Works













Recent Science Museums (2 within an easy drive of Sacramento), which one would hope the designers of the above museum have visited, but whose message has been completely ignored by the designers, as if they even could understand....