On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Tim Fenton wrote:

"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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Zaha Hadid, IM Pei, Frank Gehry, even Richard Rogers, could produce a
stunning terminal
No. They could produce an eyesore. They've done that before.

Before advocating Zaha Hadid as an architect for any project, check out
the analysis done by a Real Firefighter (tm) on her Fire Station (in
Germany IIRC).

I'd love to. Could you supply a URL, or even some slightly more specific
information?

If a building she designed isn't fire-safe, though, that's not really her
fault, it's her civil engineer's fault - it's their job to turn the
architect's high-level design into something that actually works, meets
the standards, etc, and if it can't be made to do so, to veto it. Of
course, if the civil engineer is incompetent, then that's really the
management's problem - and that's probably Ms Hadid aagin!

Not that i'm a big fan. I think her buildings are ugly and superficial -
like the output of most of the big-name architects of today. Still, at
least she's not Frank Gehry.

tom

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