This is a building, that doesn’t exist in reality yet, not even in the finality of a plan (at least a publicized one) but through a couple of 3D renders, a section and a few model pictures. May be too little for someone to make sound judgments by appropriation, but it is unlikely that it was merely an advertisement exercise. The school really wanted a new art school building. And Steven Holl delivered just that. An interesting introverted building, that on deeper digging, could easily be anywhere in the world. This is an extension per se, but it actually is a new building across the block. Still, the challenge in the project was not the art school but the response to Macintosh that Holl doesn’t really prove through his visuals in the media at least. The connections that he did attempt to make with Mac, for example the use of daylighting, etc. to me, seem too weak to notice; the sections do not appear interpreted. The fine tuning from a conceptual idea to an actual built work seems to have been overlooked. May it has all been figured out in the heads of the firm and gone on their drawing board, but the world audience has clearly been deprived of the information.
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