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How practical is City Hall?
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ArcelorMittal Orbit - London England
- Thread starter Jonny5
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Not very, according to some who've worked there.
The Kapoor is expressive as all get-out, and has to be engaged with like a building to be appreciated. But does that functionality - meeting building codes, providing a viewing platform for tourists etc. - diminish it as sculpture?
Here's the Eiffel Tower as a piece of bare-bones engineering, before architect Stephen Sauvestre tidied it up for public consumption:
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/g_invention.html
The Kapoor is expressive as all get-out, and has to be engaged with like a building to be appreciated. But does that functionality - meeting building codes, providing a viewing platform for tourists etc. - diminish it as sculpture?
Here's the Eiffel Tower as a piece of bare-bones engineering, before architect Stephen Sauvestre tidied it up for public consumption:
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/g_invention.html