I don't know...to me it just looks like someone was trying to create something that they saw during a drug-induced hallucination. I find it hard to believe that this design was even taken seriously, much less CHOSEN as the winning design. I really do love creative thinking and avant garde design, but perhaps a design like this would be best left on the pages of a book on design theory, rather than played out on the streets of a gorgeous, historical city like Prague.
I'd love to know what you think about this. Is this great, forward-thinking design? Or does this cross over the line to utterly ridiculous.
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It looks okay on the design board, but I have a feeling this building would not stand the weather all too well.
Some modern day buildings really suffer from the weather which makes them look decayed after just a few years. It's the building material I suppose, but stil... makes those buildings really ugly.
This is definitely crossing the line into the utterly ridiculous. While I'm not against creativity, I've never understood the need to be different just for the sake of being different. Furthermore, I believe that real taste and elegance must necessarily take into account issues such as environment, appropriateness, and decorum. As you said, something like this does not belong in a city such as Prague, a city characterized by an older and much more traditional (also beautiful) architecture. I happen to think that this structure is fantastically ugly, but it would at least fit in better if it had been built in some place like Las Vegas, which is built on the principle of the fantastic. Architecture should look like it belongs in its environment, even when it is updated in method and material.
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