Writing in Fast Company, journalist Cliff
Kuang describes several high-profile
architectural blunders (of the stone and steel variety). Kaung
makes this observation:
For all the money good architecture commands (the National
Gallery cost half a billion to make--and will cost 85 million to
fix), we want it to last forever, a monument to wealth, power, and
genius. But they don't. Nothing we make really does, it's just
buildings are vessels for so much emotion (and ego) that we...