On
Lynn Becker's blog a commenter named Erik compares the Metra station designed to replace a Mies van der Rohe building slated to be torn down this summer to the very basic graphics in the old video game "Donkey Kong."
I couldn't resist:
Read about how Chicago will soon tear down an integral part of Mies van der Rohe's historic, groundbreaking campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology
here.
(Of course I believe in public transportation and that the stations should be
accessible. I don't believe we need to tear down part of Mies's campus for this when vacant land stands on the other three sides of the intersection.)
More on saving the Mies van der Rohe Test Cell here (scroll down). Test Cell.
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4 comments:
I sense a performance art piece waiting to happen. Every Halloween, people in costumes will show up with little blue ladders and brown plastic barrels. There will be an Ape Team that rolls barrels, and a Mario Team that competes to climb to the top.
If you changed the title of this post to Tear down a really ugly building in Chicago and put up Donkey Kong I might be able to get behind it. The building needs to go and quick. It is a blight on the landscape. If it is in fact a Mies, we may need to all rethink his contribution to the world of architecture.
The new station looks like a skater's paradise. Does a skateboard park/transit station/donkey Kong monument trump a minor building by an Internationalist architect that many believe responsible for spawning some of the ugliest buildings in the nation? This is a tough one. Why not avoid the question altogether and build on nearby vacant land as you suggest?
Nice analogy. There is certainly a resemblance. That screenshot sure takes me back some years....
The switchbacks do seem excessive and it makes for a lot of concrete wall.
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