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Top 10 Architecture Controversies Of 2012

December 17, 2012


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The Orange County Center in Goshen, New York, faced demolition this year.

Copycat architecture, greedy developers, threatened buildings, student protests: 2012 definitely had its share of architecture controversies. But really, with all the egos involved is that really surprising? From Zaha Hadid’s faulty Olympic swimming pool to Wolf D. Prix’s screed against the Venice Architecture Biennale, here are the top 10 scandals that shook the design world this year. Click through to see them all!

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by Architizer Editors

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tagged 2012, Arizona, Brutalist, chad oppenheim, Chicago, controversy, daniel libeskind, demolition, diller + scofidio renfro, Eisenhower memorial, frank gehry, frank lloyd wright, Ice Cream City, London Olympics, Miami, Orange County Center, orange cube, Pharrell Williams, Philip Nobel, Prentice Hospital, Princeton University, renzo piano, Robin Hood Gardens, starchitects, swimming pool, Wolf D. Prix, year in review, zaha hadid

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