The Yellow Pages choice
Plenty floating around in the news today about the 2012 Olympic Stadium, very little of it gushing. Ellis Woodman, over at the Telegraph , describes HOK Sport as “the Yellow Pages choice” of architects. And Marcus Binney of the Times describes the stadium itself as “a bowl of blancmange“. Ouch.
Ellis’ final point:
The intention to make the stadium truly sustainable is really welcome, but it does not excuse the low level at which the bar of architectural ambition has been set.
keys in to a theme which I see becoming more important in the inevitable backlash to sustainability in the future - does sustainability equal dull, boring, unimaginative architecture? Can anyone nominate a building which ticks the three boxes of imagination, quality and sustainability?
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Mel, this is still the form and function debate isnt it?, but the definitions of form and function have moved on, incorporating, or trying to incorporate being fit for plant people and purpose in the function box. We have two extreme in the news at the moment - the MIT building and the Olympic stadium.
I would suggest … off the top of my head…where most ideas come from… projects like the Eden Center are closer to getting it right.
Rgds, Martin