Instead of having been designed to make a statement, as in Beijing, London’s stadiums are a reminder of today’s austere times.
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Can Modern Architecture Ever Gain Favor in Historic Neighborhoods?
Nov 28, ’11
2:55 PM
There was a very good architect who’s very le Corbusier-ish. A lot of people don’t like his work at all. He did a building in the downtown. The building that he was replacing was a very nondescript building from the ’30s. It had been something like a sheet metal sales shop, and the facade was sheet metal. Planning wanted him to keep the sheet metal, and he didn’t want to, so he hired his own preservationists to argue that the sheet metal wasn’t significant. — theatlanticcities.com