The Tulip by Foster + Partners is "not spooky enough" says Peter Cook
Architects need be more "nutty" in their designs according to architect Peter Cook, who claims that there isn't enough drama in the new London tower proposed by Foster + Partners.
"It's not spooky enough," Cook told Dezeen, describing the Norman Foster-led firm's plans for the observation tower, called The Tulip.
Critics and the public have been shocked by the shape of the 305-metre-high skyscraper, comparing it to everything from a cotton bud to a sex toy. But Cook thinks it would be better if it was even more strange. "It's [just] signalling," he said.
The Tulip by Foster + Partners could be more nutty, according to Peter CookCook – who is best known for being a member of experimental 1960s architecture group Archigram – said he thinks many of today's architects need to get in touch with their zanier, more creative side, to design more interesting and unusual projects. "I think they take themselves too seriously," said Cook, who currently co-directs Crab Studio. "There's a certain association with being very self effacing, with being honourable, which I don't think is true. But it's a current mode and mood."
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The architect, who received a knighthood in 2007, spoke to Dezeen following a talk at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam.
In the talk, titled Nutters of the North, he praised the "spooky" beauty of arch...
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