Looks familiar? No, it's not the carbuncle cup-winning ferry terminal on the city's waterfront, it's the design for a hotel overlooking West Kirby's marine lake which looks as though it's been given the green light (http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/09/22/controversial-west-wirral-hotel-plan-looks-set-to-move-forward-92534-24747849/ ).
The design has been criticised for being "not iconic enough". That's one way of putting it.
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It makes me dizzy just to look at it.
It's supposed to make you seasick.
I can see what the architect is getting at here. He (or she) has noticed that boats - cruise liners for example - increasingly look like buildings. So let's fight back and make buildings look like boats. The one on show here is, I guess, designed to look like a yacht leaning into the wind.
That's all very neat and dinky. I bet it raised a few chortles around the laptop when they first put it together. But a building isn't a boat; and just because it's by a yachting marina, it doesn't have to look like a yacht. Airport terminals don't look like planes; and hospitals don't look like an oxygen cylinder.
If a building has to reflect what it's for, then every public convenience would look like a bog roll; and the Council offices would be made from porcelain.
Just build, will ya! And kick the gimmicks!
Well if this is the thinking Ronnie, let's hope they don't build a new IVF unit.
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