Wednesday 1 October 2008

Reversible Destiny

A pair so-called "architect-poets" are behind a block of flats that are intended to keep their tenats young and healthy by providing them with "perpetual challenges".

The fact that these "challenging" Tokyo flats are indistinguishable from poorly executed examples of self-indulgent posturing, bad taste, and incompetence masquerading as a gross delusion that anyone would actuially want to live inside such a monstrosity is purely coincidental.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The most appropriate challenge here is to take a chainsaw, an axe, rough sandpaper and other stuff so that you could straighten the floor, move the switches to where they belong, cut the windows to size, widen the narrow passages and determine which of the boxy rooms you don't really need, so that you could give them to a friend of yours as an outhouse.
Or you can simply saw it off the rest of the structure and drop it on a car on the road.

Sergej said...

Ivan is right. If I had the unenviable job of making this bad boy suitable for living in, I think I'd start with several sticks of dynamite. It's faster than a crow bar, and in the worst case, could hardly make the thing any uglier. This is probably why I'm working as an engineer and not a host on one of those shows on the Home Redecoration Channel, by the way.