{"id":343,"date":"2003-12-19T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:16:15","slug":"it_doesnt_look_like_ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"it doesnt look like ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>current selection<\/b> | sting \u2013 <i>if i ever lose my faith<\/i><br><b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>friday-like<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">wow\u2026the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/19\/nyregion\/19WIRE-TOWER.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed freedom (aka: french) tower<\/a> by daniel libeskind and david childs looks alot less ass than i had anticipated. i personally think highly of libeskind\u2026and while his initial proposal was merely a suggested design approach, i took to its fragmented shard form. when it was rumoured that david childs was fucking up the design of the tower, i despaired a bit. i dont know many architects who ever remarked how david child\u2019s\/som\u2019s designs were highly evocative and beautiful. thats akin to saying how microsoft makes pretty software. aka, never. but the proposed tower, with the childs-suggested wind-farm lattice at the top of the libeskind-inspired asymmetrical tower, actually de-solidifies the mass of the tower\u2026making it almost dissolve into the sky. i kinda like this approach. <s>theyll hopefully have a render up soon to give an indication of the material use of the tower<\/s>\u2026since all towers look swishy in plexi-model form. hmm\u2026the renderings make it even more swish. woo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/19\/nyregion\/19WIRE-TOWER.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tower design (via ny times)<\/a><br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daniel-libeskind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">daniel libeskind<\/a><br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.som.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skidmore, owings, &amp; merrill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tower1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tower1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tower1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tower1-250x202.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tower1-223x180.jpg 223w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tower1-371x300.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>current selection | sting \u2013 if i ever lose my faithfeelin\u2019 | friday-like wow\u2026the proposed freedom (aka: french) tower by daniel libeskind and david childs looks alot less ass than i had anticipated. i personally think highly of libeskind\u2026and while his initial proposal was merely a suggested design approach, i took to its fragmented shard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8555,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}