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Remarkably similar?
Jordan / 1 April 2010 / Opinion / 1 comment
Spot the difference: well at Thorpe Park you can actually ride the rollercoaster, therefore (to use the old design cliché) form follows function: ergo a successful design. The Olympic Tower on the other hand… sorry, I do understand about creativity and expression and the need for public art and big ideas, but… it is at best an eccentric and very expensive white elephant, at worst a symbol of dysfunctional design and squandered resources. In China they had the ‘Birdnest’ stadium – eyecatching, iconic, and functional; and they had the group of ‘panda’ mascots which were friendly, cuddly and people especially children loved them. What do we get? a huge lump of pointless engineering masquerading as art, and two hideous sci-fi mutant mascots (Dounreay and Windscale, I think we should call them).
Now this would complete the cycle superhighway to the Naked Creativity office nicely: http://bit.ly/aTJklW
@BarclaysCycle I think Kennington needs some more empty cycle hire. Been hunting round for somewhere to park for a while.
Just shared a Tesco Lasagne sandwich around the office as an experiment. Absolutely disgusting and best avoided!
Spot the difference: well at Thorpe Park you can actually ride the rollercoaster, therefore (to use the old design cliché) form follows function: ergo a successful design. The Olympic Tower on the other hand… sorry, I do understand about creativity and expression and the need for public art and big ideas, but… it is at best an eccentric and very expensive white elephant, at worst a symbol of dysfunctional design and squandered resources. In China they had the ‘Birdnest’ stadium – eyecatching, iconic, and functional; and they had the group of ‘panda’ mascots which were friendly, cuddly and people especially children loved them. What do we get? a huge lump of pointless engineering masquerading as art, and two hideous sci-fi mutant mascots (Dounreay and Windscale, I think we should call them).