In this week's comments update, readers are debating whether The Twist art gallery by BIG is silly or sophisticated.
Over the top: readers are divided over The Twist art gallery by BIG, which twirls "like a deck of cards" and bridges the river dividing Kistefos sculpture park in Norway.
"It's maybe one of the best things BIG has done to date," praised Melon Design. "It's a building for a sculpture park that is itself an iconic piece of sculpture, and creates a better logic to the circulation of the park itself. Success. Well done."
"The twist is very elegant," added Patrick Kennedy.
Troles Steenholdt Heredal disagreed though: "What a self-centred bridge. It's like it doesn't even know that it's in a beautiful landscape." "The architectural equivalent of a high concept movie," continued Heywood Floyd. "A blunt, unambiguous, easily marketable idea which its creators use to bludgeon the audience until they cannot remember the difference between nuance and clarity."
This reader was also unimpressed:
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