Ship of Glass for Chelsea Waterfront
Babble like this is why most "art critics" drive me outta my mind. Almost to a man (or woman), these pundits bloviate away without any real-world success in the field they pontificate about. Usually, somewhere in their treatise (sp?), they drop the giveaway bomb and use a passage along the lines this schmuck shucks:
I have my own version of the "broken windows" theory of urban decline. It's called the "cheap glass" hypothesis. Both concepts deal with the power of small causes to produce big effects. The broken-windows theory, which got great play in the Giuliani administration, states that when smashed panes aren't quickly repaired, it signals neglect and decline. Neighborhoods become targets for burglars, who beget drug dealers, prostitutes, muggers, murderers.
The cheap-glass theory states that when so-called "value engineers" are hired to reduce building costs, mirror glass quickly follows. Mirror glass induces low self-esteem, depression, poor citizen morale, reduced productivity, strained personal relationships and ultimately broken windows of the soul. This is not the way to go.
Why don't you go score a contract and design something so we can test your hypothesis, putz? Oh, that's right. You're just a snarky git with a soapbox.
Oh, and in the reality of post 9-11 New York, sheathing a building in glass is just plain dumb. One half-assed car bomb wipes out the entire facing of the building on the side where the bomb was blown.
Babble like this is why most "art critics" drive me outta my mind. Almost to a man (or woman), these pundits bloviate away without any real-world success in the field they pontificate about. Usually, somewhere in their treatise (sp?), they drop the giveaway bomb and use a passage along the lines this schmuck shucks:
I have my own version of the "broken windows" theory of urban decline. It's called the "cheap glass" hypothesis. Both concepts deal with the power of small causes to produce big effects. The broken-windows theory, which got great play in the Giuliani administration, states that when smashed panes aren't quickly repaired, it signals neglect and decline. Neighborhoods become targets for burglars, who beget drug dealers, prostitutes, muggers, murderers.
The cheap-glass theory states that when so-called "value engineers" are hired to reduce building costs, mirror glass quickly follows. Mirror glass induces low self-esteem, depression, poor citizen morale, reduced productivity, strained personal relationships and ultimately broken windows of the soul. This is not the way to go.
Why don't you go score a contract and design something so we can test your hypothesis, putz? Oh, that's right. You're just a snarky git with a soapbox.
Oh, and in the reality of post 9-11 New York, sheathing a building in glass is just plain dumb. One half-assed car bomb wipes out the entire facing of the building on the side where the bomb was blown.
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