Update to this post on Libeskind's "Spiral Extension" In London

A Blow, Perhaps Fatal

LONDON, July 27 - Eight years after the Victoria and Albert Museum chose Daniel Libeskind's radical design for a modern extension, the building still exists only on paper. Now, for the third time, the museum has been refused public money for the project, and it looks increasingly unlikely that the Spiral, as the extension is called, will ever be built.

Comments

[winifer skattebol]

Not surprised to find that he is as much a pain in the ass (arse) in London ashe is here.

[Michael Blowhard]

Wow, so there is a god!

[David Sucher]

And the irony of course is that I believe -- as I think I said in the original post -- that the Spiral Extension could very well be a positive element in a city IF it met the sidewalk well.

A year ago I was in correspondence with Libeskind's office to determine what -- EXACTLY -- was happening at sidewalk level but I could never get a straight answer. Too bad.

That's how I would have sold the building to the public: "Sure it's unique but it is still a good urban building. Consider how it meets the sidewalk..." (If indeed that was the case, of course.)

[ian]

I think the proposal would have been an unmitigated disaster in that context. It was arrogant, overbearing and inhuman. It was too much 'look at me I'm cool' not enough about being a good neighbour.

I have no idea how it would have worked as a Museum but even if it would have been brilliant that isn't enough.