Archicritic James Gardner is no big fan of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architecture firm recently chosen to design both Columbia University's new medical school building and the Cooper-Hewitt's expansion. Quoth Gardner: "The results look to be far more arresting visually than they are functional, their grand strategy?as so often with this firm?being to call attention to the architectural act in itself. Even though the tangled asymmetries of the rendering strike this critic as ugly, and no less so for being intentionally ugly." [Real Deal; previously]
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