"a lot better"!!???!#$&%&@(
"than what?" we ask.
after the jump: this rmn article on the recently revised denver justice center, a really crappy rendering [above], politicians trying to spin architecture...and the sound of a lot of people not giving a damn anymore...
now, to reminisce:
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Less than ordinary architecture and design should cause great concern among the citizen tax payers of Denver.
However, concern over the aesthetics of architectural and urban design should pale in the racket of alarm that should arise when a city manager in control of $230+- million dollars worth of Justice Center buildings has the audacity to utter self-servingly vapid quotes such as "we want to mitigate the heat island effect," as a way to spin this project as being about delivering to the city a 'green' building. A building that goes out of its way to make a fashion statement out of a glass facade is not a building about green design. Sadly, this building’s only legacy will be that it reminds the people of Denver that their public servants allowed the once promising opportunity to harvest a potentially great courthouse to wither and rot on the vine.
This city deserves and should aspire to much more than simply making a building look “a lot better.”
well said...
the public process was a wasted effort here, and a huge amount of money was wasted. this is not an art museum, so why treat it as another "attraction" in denver? teh DAM competition was a good idea, but it doesn't translate to courthouses and jails. there won't be any donor money to fall back on if the project goes over budget. advocates for this project will be placed in a similar category as those who vied for the "freedom tower". it will be a mediocre, sad remider of what it could have been, and that deserves a memorial in itself...
"...in order to conserve energy, making the building even more "green", we will be installing highly designed temperature control devices called thermostats..."
HA!
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