Once again we get, surprise, surprise, a glass box from aA. I'm sorry, but this kind of repetition is just starting to get boring. I love Sp!re, I really do. I like how its slender body makes it seem much taller than it really is. I love its stark simplicity; I can look at it for days and still find things which intrigue me. I even like the off colored panels, though I would have gone with a color that didn't make the results look like plywood. The CCBR is another example of a thoughtful, intelligent building which succeeds in being green in a more natural way, providing a garden with full grown trees and the like.
But this is too much. Theres nothing to attach myself to here. Its not bad but its not engaging either. As a piece of architecture it just seems like another low-rise, loft-style condominium with a slick interior design team and I, for one, am bored.
Clewes and the rest of aA have proven on a number of occasions that they've 'got the goods' to produce outstanding architecture. I might also state that my favored aesthetic 'style' would lie in a more modernist tradition, similar to that which Clewes practices. But theres so much you can do with a box; to, excuse the pun, take the box out of the box.
