In this week's comments update, readers are critical of Zaha Hadid Architects' recently revealed designs for a housing development.
Curve appeal: readers were disappointed with plans by Zaha Hadid Architects that have been unveiled for a housing development in Bristol, comprising 550 homes.
"Compellingly awful", offered a concise Princenitram.
An equally unimpressed Doesil said: "No imagination. Just another set of 60s bricks on end. Where are the Hadid signature curves""
Some readers, including Arc, had emotional responses to the scheme, fearing how it would affect the city: "Every firm has a B team, and bread and butter projects, to pay the rent. Sad that a city I love is getting stuck with these. Especially a city so filled with great engineering wonders by Brunel." "And so Zaha's legacy slowly fades into the history books," mourned Conor Austin Jesse Sass.
One particularly disgruntled reader agreed:
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Fake news: Sean Griffiths claimed that architects have an obsession with fake meanings, following the unveiling of Stephen Holl's design for University College Dublin's campus, and not everyone shares the sentiment.
"Holl's reference is undoubtedly clumsy and inappropriate, but I don't think it speaks for architectural metaphors as a whole," argued Blaeh.
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