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Behold the Aspen Art Museum designed by Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize for Architecture. As the old joke goes: is that the building or the box that the building came in? Beneath the plywood lattice stands something that looks like a dog food processing facility. See below, closeup of cheap, crappy windows behind the sportive climbers — who were slapped with a $150 fine and 10 hours of community service for attempting a technical ascent of this humdinger. Thanks to Brian Sherwin for the nomination!
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World Made By Hand (Fourth and Final)
New Interview with JHK about The Harrows of Spring
Praise for A History of the Future:
“Kunstler skewers everything from kitsch to greed, prejudice, bloodshed, and brainwashing in this wily, funny, rip-roaring, and profoundly provocative page- turner, leaving no doubt that the prescriptive yet devilishly satiric A World Made by Hand series will continue.” — Booklist
My local indie booksellers… Battenkill Books (Autographed by the Author) … or Northshire Books…
or Amazon…
Also: Published as an E-book for the first time!
The 20th Anniversary edition
With an entertaining new introduction by the author
Bargain Price $3.99
Amazon Kindle …or … Barnes & Noble Nook …or… Kobo
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You insult honest dog food companies everywhere.
That’s a humdinger alright. Built in a resort town full of mountain and
rock climbers, good luck keeping them off of it!
A monument to impermanence it there ever was one. Wonder how long it will be before all that plywood starts to delaminate?
It is not supposed to last: impermanence is one of the tenets of Japanese aesthetics. This screen is a Koshimado which both conceals and reveals. Like it or not, it is another example of the ephemeral, the temporary-ness of everything on different time scales. Be patient my friends for this too will disappear in time.
the structural framing is incredible. google some interior photos for an example. the exterior weaving does look chintzy. i’m not sure how durable that will be after a few winters. (ephemerality aside).
rich people build cool stuff. who cares if it falls apart? just keep prep’ing
Anyone got a match? Why bother. Send in the termites.
Now THAT’s an eyesore
As routersurfer suggests, a bit of kindling on one corner and whoosh
Lovely looking countryside behind it mind you
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