The original Auckland art museum with a water fall in front
concrete ,glass,steel and funeral bouquets
Keep building the mega mall up and soon well block out the clock tower completley who caresThe Auckland art gallery is now a Mega mall where its free but you still have to pay if I wanted glass ,concrete and steel I would have gone to Auckland hospital WTF
this isnt the Auckland art gallery I remember the one I remember didnt block out the sun and infect the street like leporasy pretty soon they will close offf the whole road so they can expand.
The Auckland art gallery I remember is pictured at the very top I still remember letting my daughter play in the fountain 10 years ago and not having to look through oversized windows to see the trees
I remember space ,sun ,air and a charismatic building with a skyscraping clock attactched to it now this is all but a memory swept away by a fukin mega mall structure that is like walking around in a damn rubiks cube it reminded me of the David Bowie film Labirynth.
It is a shame that the once welcoming feel of days gone by is no longer welcome in the concrete jungle now every one wants space inside but wheres the space outside I think the architects must have ben exconvicts because they didnt give a toss about the out doorspace of the building.
Cold, dank, dark, surgical, shadowy and agrophobic is how I describe this building to me it is no longer the Auckland Art gallery it is far from it should be called the Auckland Art Gallery Mausoleum-a stately or impressive building housing a tomb of memories.
Cheers Maha,
ReplyDeleteYet again you go against the flow! Almost everyone I know thinks that the new Auckland Art Gallery is stunning, and an improvement, but I appreciate the fact that you are able to take the opposite point of view and remind us of what we have lost.
I think it would have been better yet if you could somehow bring the argument back to form v. function, or even to compare/contrast with other galleries in other places. Are we just going along with international trends? Or is there a gallery somewhere else that you think has the right ideas about architecture?
Quite funny that you say "Next they will be blocking off the street" as that's exactly what El suggested that they DID do - to create an arts and craft precinct that's pedestrian only!
TX