You Can't Make This Stuff Up

I stumbled on this extraordinary combination of lack of imagination and poor taste from Curbed:
Leaning Tower of 87 Lafayette Explodes Our Brains

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, by Lockhart

---

Welcome the Frank Gehry/Post Modern age of Gimmick architecture....lets' turn New York into a giant, condo-crazed flashy glizy funhouse for novelty seekers.

It obviously is meant to defy basic engineering principles - and in doing so requires an enormous amount of resources. (ironically gimmick 2.0 of this design is that he's 'reusing' shipping containers) Were it for lasting beauty it might be justified - but clearly it is not.....Such is the age Frank Gehry helped usher in - novelty flashy 'architecture' that critics can coo over....it reminds me of the increased gimmickry towards the end of the dot com bubble.

I find it amazing frivolous waste would be contemplated in age of increased environmental concern.