Commenter calls Heatherwick Studio's 1,000 Trees development "sublime"
In this week's comments update, readers are analysing Heatherwick Studio's 1,000 Trees development and discussing other top stories.
The first section of the plant-covered 1,000 Trees development, designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio, has opened in Shanghai, China.
Designed for developer Tian An, the mixed-use development has been described as "Shanghai's Hanging Gardens of Babylon" and features up to 1,000 pillars, each with a tree planted on top.
"Like the trees were retrofitted onto a 1970s hotel"
Commenters are divided. "Sublime," said Don Bronkema.
FMB agreed: "Great building, and unique in its own right. This is one to stay. So much to discover and to wander around and through. I guess all the dissing architects will keep dissing, but average people and visitors to this beautiful site will just love it." "What a conceptually moribund and fundamentally ugly project," disagreed Ralph Kent.
"Intense and clunky," concluded JZ. "Like the trees were retrofitted onto a 1970s hotel to Disneyfy the place."
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Mario Cucinella Architects creates "serene and monolithic" church in Italian hill top town
Commenter says "it's unimaginable that somebody can be this creative"
Readers are worshipping the Mario Cucinella Architects-designed Santa Maria Goretti Church in the town of Mormanno in southern Italy. The building features...
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