Ghery's new shoes
I read this article about a new Frank Ghery building! Alright! No matter how ostentatious his style is, you gotta love him. Yea, he uses unnecessary and environmentally detrimental materials in most of his buildings. But hey, they look cool. This time he is going all glass. This is going to be the Luis Vuitton headquarters, and to be honest it doesn't look very LV-esque. The Prada building in Japan by Herzog and Demuron does an amazing job of emitting a "Prada vibe". Now, this new Ghery building looks cool, but not like a Luis Vuitton building. In fact its seems to be following a completely different vein of inspiration. For example, the building is going to act as an entrance to Jardin, in Paris France. I didn't know what that was so I googled it, and found out that it is a botanical garden/school for botanists... What??? Then i was looking at the building, and I made a kind of elementary observation, but i thought it was funny so i will share it with you. To me the building looks like a giant beetle or cicada, heh.. So i am asking myself, is this a building that is for Luis Vuitton, a world renowned label and bag manufacturer, or is it for Jardin: botanical garden/school? Now to be fair, the article mainly focused on the buidlings positive impact on the residence in and around Jardin, so maybe it has nothing to do with Luis Vuitton, except in name... I am not sure.
posted by toddevan @ 10:06 PM
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