I did the
Komen Houston Race for the Cure this morning. There were just a few people there.
It wasn't actually a race for us. Not when I am dragging along two kids who alternate "My feet hurt, Daddy" and "When are we going?" So we did the walking route. Which took me by a building I have heard about but have never seen before: The Houston branch of the Fed.
It is indeed hideous beyond words. It looks like a scaled-up version of the Children's Museum, only without the charm.
Looking closely, it seems the architectural firm was so busy fiddling about with the color scheme that they failed to account for hurricanes. Unlike the non-descript 5os-era Fed building that looked like a bunker complex, the new Fed building suffered substantial roof damage. Whole entire sections of roofing were peeled off.
This is inexcusable for a critical building that is brand-new.
It wasn't actually a race for us. Not when I am dragging along two kids who alternate "My feet hurt, Daddy" and "When are we going?" So we did the walking route. Which took me by a building I have heard about but have never seen before: The Houston branch of the Fed. It is indeed hideous beyond words. It looks like a scaled-up version of the Children's Museum, only without the charm.
Looking closely, it seems the architectural firm was so busy fiddling about with the color scheme that they failed to account for hurricanes. Unlike the non-descript 5os-era Fed building that looked like a bunker complex, the new Fed building suffered substantial roof damage. Whole entire sections of roofing were peeled off.
This is inexcusable for a critical building that is brand-new.
3 comments:
Well, I agree construction is clearly lacking, but I think that building looks pretty cool. Sort of like it's made out of legos or something.
The bad roof may not have been a design issue but a construction issue. I've seen houses whose roofs literally had 1/2 the nails miss the 2x4's and were just there for show. But you would expect that it being a federal building, and the Fed at that, they would do more than your usual Ryland home inspection.
Still, it does look like a bastardized Children's Museum. Something that ugly just had to have had a large committee deciding what it would look like. Peter Keating must have been the architect.
Bob, the problem highly stylized architecture is in 5 years this building will look severely dated. It will be like a guy trying to score in 1985 while wearing his disco duds.
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