Friday, September 26, 2003
If you want to read and articleby an architect critic on a piece of architecture they hate you should read this @ the Chicago Tribune. It is worth registering for the website just to read a long well put together article.
Stadiums are supposed to be like parks, giving people of various classes a chance to rub shoulders, but the new Soldier Field extends the social stratification present in all American stadiums to a new and distressing extreme. Inevitably, there will be frigid and windy winter days when bundled-up fans in the grandstand will look across the field to see, in the suites, the masters of the universe lounging comfortably in shirtsleeves.
Nothing could be further from the social contract once implied by Soldier Field's "we're all in the same bowl" design
I am not a writing expert but as funny as Natalie Maines was on her website this is much better writing.
Stadiums are supposed to be like parks, giving people of various classes a chance to rub shoulders, but the new Soldier Field extends the social stratification present in all American stadiums to a new and distressing extreme. Inevitably, there will be frigid and windy winter days when bundled-up fans in the grandstand will look across the field to see, in the suites, the masters of the universe lounging comfortably in shirtsleeves.
Nothing could be further from the social contract once implied by Soldier Field's "we're all in the same bowl" design
I am not a writing expert but as funny as Natalie Maines was on her website this is much better writing.
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