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Architecture
MOMA Linked HybridPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, March 19, 2008 2:29 PM
 This photo, from TooManyTribbles' blog, shows the progress of construction of the awkwardly-named real estate development called Linked Hybrid, also known as MOMA Phase 2 or 当代MOMA. The complex was designed by American architect Steven Holl. It was selected at the end of last year by Time magazine as one of ten best new architectural marvels. If you have Youtube access, below you can a promotional video interview with the architect, and an interview with him on the Charlie Rose Show. There are more Beijing architecture photos by TooManyTribbles with Danwei annotations: CNOOC building, the National Theater a.k.a The Egg, and China World Phase Three. |
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Comments on MOMA Linked Hybrid
I got some pictures of the bird's nest and the CCTV building last weekend when I was in Beijing for the Dodgers vs Padres games:
http://flickr.com/search/?q=beijing%20architecture&w=35468134321%40N01&m=tags
momo is a blight on the beijing landscape.
phase 2? that must be phase 6 by now. The owner of that development, I suspect, suffers from ADD. He has found it impossible to come up with one consistent vision and instead has commissioned a hotch-potch of crappy designs. mega hall any one?
at least that pan fellow from soho had the good sense to build his various developments at different locations, rather than pile them all into the same, limited space.
Yes, let's talk about MegaHall (previous name of MOMA). It had couple of serious fire during its first year in operation.
Couple of days ago, the security guards at MOMA got arrested for stealing property.
I wouldn't feel safe to live there because the developer definitely compromised safety for fat profits.
Hopefully, no more tragedy will happen there again.
in case any of you are wondering, and I'm sure you are, apartments there are going for 4万/平米. Sign me up.
Living near the linked hybrid, I have to say that is one crappy design. Why try to be different in that way? There are many other ways to link buildings at that level, but why such an asymmetric piece of crap? It looks like me seven year old boy built it out of an erector set using only the parts that were left. Why so disjointed? To many artists and architects want to be different, at the cost of being visually pleasing. Different yes, cool NO! Take your US designed crap back to the US, there is nothing Chinese about it. As for the CCTV building, that is cool, until the substandard steel gives.
M.P.S.