Posted on 04/15/2025 4:17:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Behold the lovely new Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Complements the nearby parking deck! It’s a cancer research center, designed by HDR Architects, Omaha. Certainly has that American heartland tumor spirit! The promotional literature says, “the COVID-19 pandemic significantly influenced the design.” The building is intended to symbolize “hope and progress,” it says. Strange to relate, the percentage increase in cancer cases in the USA from 2021 to 2024 (the latest fully projected year) is approximately 12.6 percent. Could that have anything to do with the Covid-19 vaccines? Perhaps researchers in the Kellen Building can figure that out. By the way, in July 2021, Mayo Clinic announced that all staff, regardless of work location, were required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. They were dead certain it was the right thing to do.
Eyesore of the Month Ping
Looks like my garden hose after I accidentally mowed over it
Let me guess: that’s what the inside of your arteries look like, after the jab…
Trying to decide what is uglier, this or a similar-sized Brutalist structure?
I’ll call it a tie. Which is quite damning for this monstrosity.
Kunstler hits another home run that smashes up another cultural eye-con. Fixing this is probably more expensive than tearing it down and starting all over again. What would amaze me is that any competent cancer researcher would chose to work in a building like that unless cancer research is another scam of the grifting classes where excellence in achieving results is not actually a part of the job description.
Oh this is far worse.
A few weeks ago I recall that Trump said he wanted to return to having beautiful architecture. I understand that he was referring to federal buildings, but when I saw this, what he said came to mind.
What were they THINKING? An embarrassment.
It’s one building but is a part of the overall corruption of the country - art, architecture, science, education, entertainment, family.
Lol!
Excellent connection!
I expect that building to fare worse than anything designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
“It’s a cancer research center, designed by HDR Architects, Omaha.”
Well it certainly looks like a tumor.
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That is exactly how I described it to my wife.
You're pretty darn smart!
I’d like to see some of the other HDR’s buildings.
The Sponge Bob Building
It amazes me how they want us to celebrate their ostentatiousness while disease burdens skyrocket. My father told me as a young child “insurance is a scam, but health insurance is the ultimate scam.”
Reminds me of the Obama Presidential Temple ... I mean Presidential library.
Thanks for the link. I checked out the reviews and it looks to be a very good book. But, as one reviewer noted, “prepare to be depressed”, which makes sense.
Give me a little white church with a steeple in the country.
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