"Ghastly" isn't strong enough.
"Ghastly" isn't strong enough.
Gehry saddled us with that monstrosity in Seattle at Seattle Center.
If you haven’t seen it, it is truly horrible. It is a building housing the Experience Music Project - which is a melted guitar over the track of the monorail there.
Ugly doesn’t begin to describe it.
Whadda goof. If you pick Gehry to memorialize anybody but himself, you lose!
At first it is Ghastly, but like the Vietnam Memorial, it will soon become un-ghastly. Growing up under Ike, I would prefer a statue as large as the Hussein one that was torn down in Baghdad. It could be up on a pedestal, wearing his Ike jacket uniform, and have a gulf club in one hand and a fishing pole in the other and I would still like it. My greatest fear of ghastly is that one day we might find Obama on Mt Rushmore next to Jimmah Carter.
(I assume the dead trees represent Europe after Eisenhower bombed the crap out of it)
That was poison-dripping sarcasm, BTW.
That is not a monument to an American Hero. It is a monument to a post-modern architect.