The Times has a piece on the status of the US Embassy in Berlin (apparently the plan to hire Jeff Koons to make a humongous stainless steel ‘Surrender Monkey’ fell through). This is not a ‘local’ story, but the accompanying photo provides a good in-progress view of the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which was designed by Peter Eisenman. Eisenman’s weakness has always been too much of a gap between drawing and form (or, sometimes, a too literal transformation). Though I’m in no position to judge, and indeed don’t even necessarily have a negative conclusion to present, it is an interesting image to see after all these years of wireframe CAD renderings projected at a much lower angle.
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Incidental Insight.
The Times has a piece on the status of the US Embassy in Berlin (apparently the plan to hire Jeff Koons to make a humongous stainless steel ‘Surrender Monkey’ fell through). This is not a ‘local’ story, but the accompanying photo provides a good in-progress view of the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which was designed by Peter Eisenman. Eisenman’s weakness has always been too much of a gap between drawing and form (or, sometimes, a too literal transformation). Though I’m in no position to judge, and indeed don’t even necessarily have a negative conclusion to present, it is an interesting image to see after all these years of wireframe CAD renderings projected at a much lower angle.