re: I.M. Pei R.I.P. (1917-2019)

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I will, and I disagree. I took a picture of the glass pyramid and didn't go into the Louvre because the line was outrageous.

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dude

"I disagree, museum is the only draw"

"But I took a picture of it despite not going"

If you disagree it's an icon of Paris, why bother taking a pic of it?

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Most (in)famous project? The new entrance to the Louvre;

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I always wondered who Pei had dirty pictures of as his company's massive failure - building the John Hancock Tower in Boston - would have sunk most firms.

The quote below is just some of the problems with it (I am old enough to remember the news coverage), the part of the wiki ....well it was full of architectural problems...


There were problems with the innovative use of blue reflective glass in a steel tower: Entire 4' × 11', 500-lb (1.2 × 3.4 m, 227 kg) windowpanes detached from the building and crashed to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below. Police closed off surrounding streets whenever winds reached 45 mph (72 km/h). LINK

It's always like that. I'm neither pro nor anti-pyramid, but people adjust and it blends into the surroundings in time while gaining status as an icon.

People bitched about Haussmann and they bitched about Eiffel and now I'm sure Parisians generally appreciate both.

Probably about to see something similar happen with Notre-Dame.

I hope they rebuild Notre Dame exactly the way it was. I was there when it burned and saw the fire almost from the beginning. It was a heartbreaking sight.

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His work in Alexandria is amazing.

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My favorite work of his is Middleton Library in the middle of the quad.

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My favorite work of his is Middleton Library in the middle of the quad

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Skip Bertman told me the best architectural work done in Starkville was done by tornadoes

Was he in on the whole Da Vinci code thing?