It's been announced that the Architecture Foundation can no longer afford to build Zaha Hadid's design for their new headquarters. Since their role is to 'promote and encourage the best in contemporary architecture, and bringing it to a wide public' I can only imagine that they're not happy about it. But not as unhappy as I am. Zaha is certainly the world's greatest living architect and possibly the greatest ever (apart from Louis Khan, but I don't think he really counts since it was more than likely he wasn't human, but in fact an angel) and the failure to build any of her designs is a great loss to the world at large. So this is the closest we're ever going to get to it:
Sad. Saddest of all it means that England is still without a single building designed by her. I think we shoud all stop what we're doing now, get down to the foundation and give them a hand. We could get it done by the end of the day if 57 million people help. While I'm on the subject, whoever was in charge of the Cardiff Opera house should be ashamed of themselves, ASAHMED. We could have had this:
Bit instead have this clumsy, hulking, eyesore:
An homage to tasteless comtemporary design with not an ounce of tension, excitement, beauty or merit. We could have had art, but instead we've got Jack Vettriano.
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