Wednesday, November 4, 2009

A Trimming Prospect

Thomas Heatherwick - East Beach Café, Littlehampton, West Sussex, England (2007)
Swiss Museum of Architecture Re-Sampling Ornament

I have a range of feelings about this building. Initially I think it is childish and playful, like some kind of 3d puzzle, that has been completed and displayed on a shelf. But I also feel attached to it, as a living creature, and I am saddened to see it beached and immovable, like a mechanical whale that became distracted from its course, and came to its final resting place in a rusted heap.

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