Frank Gehry building to be sandblasted

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Apparently the metal skin of the Walt Disney Concert Hall is too reflective and is causing a major disturbance around the area in which it was built. The glare is potentially affecting people in cars and has even increased the temperature of a nearby condominium.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/02/arts/design/02gehr.html

Some pics of it.
1A.Disney.jpg

1B-Disney.jpg

1C-Disney.jpg


If anyone has wallpaper sized images of this place, i'd really like some links. The building is just gorgeous. It's sad that this has to be done to it though.
 
Gorgeous?
It looks like the absolute ugliest building I've ever seen.
 
It looks a tad better in real life (lack of depth perception kills it on flat images), but not much. Whatever happened to one of the big design theories (or points, whatever), symmetry?

Oh, and, I have to say that the street that goes by that place is downright terrible. It's steep (very steep—just look at the bottom portion of the first picture), crowded, and ancient. And if you go up it a few more miles you run into hookerville.
 
Symmetry sucks. What if your ass looked like your face? Balance, on the other hand, is important.

Gehry's older work is much better but much less famous. One thing he has always managed to maintain is a good spatial feel to the rooms inside those weird shapes. Other architects of that school just wrap weird box around normal rooms, which begs the question of why you'd pay such a hideous amount of money just to look cool.

Gehry buildings routinely cost $600-$700 a square foot to build, as opposed to more regular buildings that cost $150-$200 per square foot for a decent quality design.
 
where is that located?

i cant get into the NY times site.
 
gah, now that's annoying... the site came up perfectly when i found it on google :irked:

Try this: The NYTimes article should be the first on the list :)
 
I'd really like to make a time-lapse movie of that building showing all the shadows and reflections over the day. It'd make a really cool screen saver.
My camera can do it, I just need the time/place/vast memory card to do it.
 
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Symmetry sucks. What if your ass looked like your face?
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Okay, symmetry along one axis…? ;) Scratch that, I see what you mean.
 

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