Building FAIL
September 28, 2010
Renzo Piano. I.M. Pei. Frank Gehry. All nearly household names, all winners of the Pritzker Prize, and all architects who have been recently sued for or accused of mistakes and professional neglect.
This is the price of “Bilbao Effect” architecture: boundary-pushing geometries and physics-defying structural systems don’t necessarily yield the most well-detailed or well-constructed results.
Eric Felton has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal today, covering a slew of notable buildings that have had major structural or mechanical failures in recent years. More after the jump.
