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Monday, November 30, 2009
The Unlovely Bones: Big Jim Deslabbed
Minimalism meets deconstructionism:Our original post on the $1,000,000+ project to remove the granite panels on the arcade and its disappearing columns to avoid unintended flattenings of passerbys.An intimation of structure gone ghostly, stripped naked, knife-edged helpless. A playful, mysterious parti dematerialized down to a moody, unsettling nightmare of the street.
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So you're saying the Thompson Center is now just a large, glass building stripped bare by her bachelors, even?
Steel framing angles and masonry grips - not "An intimation of structure gone ghostly, stripped naked, knife-edged helpless. A playful, mysterious parti dematerialized down to a moody, unsettling nightmare of the street"
Whatever the hell that means. Are actualy an architect?
Have actually experienced how this looks?
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