i went through a bunch of the curbed posts on gehry's new chelsea building today (right, image via curber). as i read through the comments sections i realized just how ornery new yorkers and people in general are with mr. gehry - these posts have inspired some of the funniest commentary! i was sitting here in the lab just laughing out loud (or screaming OH SNAP!!!). people are so up in arms - most of the comment threads turn into big, flaming verbal wars between people ala livejournal. it's so weird. here are some of my favorites:
15. Someone told me over lunch at Swifty's that Frank G. hires sophomores from C level architectural schools to come up with concepts for new, exciting and unsustainable buildings. But at the same time he hires detailers from the mobile home and trailer industry in Elkart, Indiana to follow the concepts through the construction phase. Is this true?
7. Paging Mr. Gehry, your buildings are giant metallic turds.
6. goddamn, that building is ugly...not homely, but certainly chinsey.
02. It looks like two ugly, gigantic robots somehow managed to get drunk and have sex, then the female ugly gigantic robot got pregnant and had a ugly, gigantic robotic abortion in the middle of Brooklyn, and this is the ugly, gigantic unwanted discarded robot fetus.
6. There's something about those windows that look like ghetto tint jobs or Walgreens Christmas Window spray.
13. what the hell is this crap? it looks like something i saw under construction in Mumbai three years ago. (re: atlantic yards)
23. This is just the architectural equivalent of a logo handbag.
46. So after this is built, what project will you idiots bitch about next? Maybe you can stop the Calatrava transit center from being developed. Or perhaps you can endlessly complain about the Silvercup Studios project. It must be exciting to have so much progress to fight against!
61. shit someone put that thing too close to the radiator and it got all melted.
and one kicker:
14. Obviously, your demented mother dropped you on the floor (head first) when you were born. She was probably scared to death to see what an ugly troll you are and does not remember who's your actual daddy (what a whore).
HAHAHaaaaaa
