Showing posts with label Egomaniacs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egomaniacs. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

I'm not Alone. Nor a Gay Fish. And Now to Toot my Horn.

Been a few days. I was in my home state landing some Medical District Planning work with an ultra-progressive, informed, and aware facilities planning group for a hospital. It must be my lucky day when I land back in Dallas, fire up the DVR and find that South Park had trashed two of the people in show biz that I find to be the least talented, most overrated hacks/posers: Carlos Mencia and Kanye West...

Friday, March 27, 2009

Architects, Cities, Countries, et al. Missing the Point


Look Ma. It's so green, you don't even have to go outside...because the air is too umm visible to breathe!

TreeHugger on the wonderful world of "green" buildings in China:

Let's go thru a sampling of the slideshow, shall we:


I see London. I see France. I see a tower, a park...oh, it's a tower in a park. How has that worked?



And here we have Stephen Holl doing what he does best. Hideous effing buildings.




And here is a drive-in movie theater.



And getting the scale of space all wrong. Unless Godzilla and Space Godzilla choose to move their young family across the East Sea for the better schools.