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  • Ashen Victor

    Just one thought: Calatrava con go f*ck himself straight to hell! 

    • stillcantfightthedite

      Why?

      • Ashen Victor

        Overpriced projects, repetitive designs, horrible cost overruns, stupid design decisions, insecure bridges, putting intellectual property over user safety, involvement in several corruption schemes, chronic delays, unusable spaces, non eco-friendly buildings, buildings inaccessible to the disabled, defection from his own country, a 20 million € mock-up, and general deep assholery.

        • http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

          But apart from those, what did Calatrava ever do to us?

  • stillcantfightthedite

    While Calatrava certainly isn’t a saint, neither are/were many other famous architects.  Frank Lloyd Wright, for example.  Can anyone name a famous architect who’s buildings were always completed on schedule, under budget, and functioned properly (i.e. no leaky roof) and were very personable and nice people?  I’m actually interested to know.

    • GuyInMilwaukee

      That’s a pretty high bar you set for the kind of buildings these starchitects design. That said, César Pelli seems like a pretty nice and competent guy.

  • el capullo

    Not including Buckminster Fuller and his Geodesic dome makes this list ridiculously incomplete.

    • DJ Tilley

      Well they’ve only got 26 spaces, plenty of important folks had to be left out.

  • http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley

    That was nice but I was puzzled to see “Secession building – Vienna” on there. That’s a little like saying, “Victorian brownstone – New York.” Not exactly one of a kind.

    • Frank W

      FYI: That’s not a Secession building, it’s The Secession Building. The Wiener Secession’s club house.