Undulating 'Blobitecture' Is The Latest Trend In Building Design {image warning}
http://www.businessinsider.com/emporis-blobitecture-buildings-trend-2013-10?op=1***SNIP
Spain's Metropol Parasol (2011) claims to be the largest wooden structure in the world. The building was designed to look like a giant mushroom, and visitors can walk on top to see gorgeous views of Seville.
Kunsthaus Graz (2003) or the Graz Art Museum in Austria looks like an alien spaceship compared to the red tile roofs of Graz's old town. It houses contemporary art and lights up at night.
Experience Music Project (2000) is an undulating museum in Seattle founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Seattle Center Monorail even runs directly into the gold, silver, and violet building.
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It looks like a giant turd with horns.
be bored by all the cool old buildings. Especially if they have classic old apartment buildings like those everywhere.
Just a thought. 
I suppose that giant glass stomach will teach 'em to be bored.
All the weird bends and curlicues make for a lot of wasted space on the inside. Some of it looks neat, especially since, unlike the outside, it's not trying to coexist with the cool 1960s Zeerust of the Seattle Center, but there's surprisingly little square footage devoted to the exhibits for such a big building. Which is a problem, what with it being a museum and all.
Compare it to the downtown library:
It's architecture-as-ornament, too, but it doesn't look like a melted pile of crap, and they remembered to lay out the inside so that they could put a bunch of books in it. Although it too has a fair amount of underutilized space, such as this frankly unnerving 1970s dystopian sci-fi hallway:
Mostly I like them because you're all so horrified. épater la bourgeoisie!
Here's the Seattle Public Library, by Rem Koolhaas:
Certainly they are not like anything that's come before them -- each able to stand, or sit, on its own aesthetic and utilitarian qualities.
Kunsthaus Graz is the Awesome.
