The story goes that Frank Lloyd Wright upon entering a Las Vegas style casino for the first time, remarked on the architecture with those same words. Maybe it's more myth, than any amount of truth. I hope my photographs give you that same feeling of disorientation and bemusement. The plan is to abstract the crap out of architecture I like and throw in non-academic, pop culture infused musings whilst I'm at it.
The most likely result if Ellsworth Kelly [link] and the creator of Magna Tiles [link] were doing lines of coke together at the Venice Biennale and thinking outside the square.
The redevelopment of the facade of The Strand Arcade was completed by Studio 505 [link]. The facade redevelopment was completed in 2014.
This redevelopment of Gehry's own residence in Santa Monica kind of reminds me of The Simpson's episode where Homer becomes an outsider artist through his poorly executed attempts at constructing a BBQ which apparently was the apogee of found art in Springfield town. Marcel Duchamp would no doubt have approved.
I'm kind of surprised he hasn't upgraded to titanium cladding from the drab corrugated iron by now.
On a side note, a car was parked in the garage through not sure if he was home at the time. Either way kind of felt awkward photographing his house.
The redevelopment of the Gehry residence was designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 1978 and further work done in 1991.
