architecture

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Bad Building Roundup

Lots of crappy architecture making headlines these day. Here's a sampling:

Blair Kamin pans the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield, IL, designed by HOK and set to open this weekend. (alt. link for Kamin article and more news at the Chicago Tribune)
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Get your appetites ready. McDonald's new two-story "flagship" in Chicago's River North opens for business Friday. Would you like a clunky building with that?
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James Howard Kunstler's latest Eyesore of the Month is a lesson not only in bad architecture, but also extremely bad circulation.
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And Design Observer tackles the latest unfortunate trend in Southern Californian residential design: Tuscan.
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