The giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk" needs his exercise!

An igloo in China?!?

You don't think this c-could MORPH into something, do you? Like a metallic toad?

The Eiffel Tower sprouts leaves!



An Interstate on-ramp?

A VISITOR CENTER IN TAIWAN?

NOT ARCHDaily!



Baltimore, aka Inner Harbor and a ghetto, brings back B of the Bang!

Where's Ren and Stimpy to go along with it?

No matter how you slice it and dice, it, it's still a parking garage in disguise.



Cleveland, not content to put a mausoleum on the lake, now must put a black box in its downtown.

Are those folks still mourning their deposed king?

A NEAR TRAGEDY IN LOUISVILLE: A team of STARCHITECTS was all ready to put up this masterpiece of toy blocks on the city's waterfront -- but then just as with THE DRILL BIT ON THE LAKE, the Babbitts financing it ran out of money, and the citizens of that burg could only dream of the great and noble edifice lost forever, except to the denizens of sites like ARCHDaily! Thankfully the local EDDIE!!!!!s, sensing the need to boost CIVIC PRIDE, applied for STIMULUS MONEY, and with luck in another ten years the locals will be demanding this nationally acclaimed eyesore be torn down, perhaps requiring more tax money.

The saying goes that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So why did so many have to flatter the CCTV Center?

Besides, this is the sincerest form of imitation.



A church or a high-end mausoleum?



The new gag: HVAC shafts with interior lighting!

A sequel to The Birds!

A $15 million hut!

Someone foreclosed on a third of our house!

Where are the showerheads?

A $10 million underground air shaft -- er, chapel!



A mosque in DUBAI!!!!! that resembles -- we won't say.

STARCHITECTS say organized religion in all its guises has never been more dense.

Is it us or does this proposed U. S. Courthouse annex in Salt Lake City look like a -- prison?

We repeat: what is with STARCHITECTS making stupid faces?

A bank? A school? a doctor's office?

A "drive-through restaurant"?



Aside from looking like the dream of a man who wants to keep all the sunlight out, this building is made of Cor-Ten steel. See that little out line of rust on the sidewalk? Imagine what this will look like in twenty years!

A $5 million optical store!



A $10 million hole in the ground!



A $20 million stairwell to nowhere!

A Guinness Book-record-setting HVAC system!



A front-page rave review in The Paper of Re-CORD! (Which, if CARLOS THE JACKASS is smart, He'll put behind the pay wall -- permanently!)



Why must STARCHITECTS always make these stupid faces?

It's been a while since we've parked our carcass there, so -- ARCHDaily!



A chic concentration camp!




A hip Iron Curtain!



Architect Marcelo Ertorteguy shared with us his project “The Stone”, for which he received first prize in the Art in Architecture Competition. The competition’s intent was to generate ideas about the relationship and interaction between the two.

The only interaction I see is between that box and gravity.



What is with STARCHITECTS and SEX?



The Tidal Resonance Chamber, designed by Robert Horner is an experiment between human perception and nature; it also serves as conduit for the development of sustainable construction techniques. The Tidal Resonance Chamber provides a harbor for the contemplation and reflection on the manner in which human beings have utilized and manipulated the natural environment.

Plus it's a neat looking shipping container!



A McDonald's museum!

MORE TO COME!

This site is still under construction; we hope to have it finished very soon.

See, now we're about to utter another kind word for starchitecture. This is far preferable to what might have been, given this is a water tower; and while the color scheme might not be to our taste at least the design shows some imagination.



On the other hand there has been a big self-serving debate among writers of Cute Little Pink Papers about this new depilatory device going up near the Empire State Building. We cannot entirely exonerate King Kong's favorite platform as it was built on government demand (like the WTC) and because for years it was called the Empty State Building, and its numerous owners are testimony to its commercial dubiousness. But it does have the flair of its era and the symmetry of a day when architects still thought it important. This huge starchitect's fee should be despised not because it's blocking someone's view but because it was made by Panasonic, and with luck the owners will have themselves a white elephant every bit as empty as was the Empire State. Given this non-recession we're heading back into I wouldn't bet otherwise.

P. S. The building, which His Excellency's City Council approved today, is still in the "planning phase". TRANSLATION: This WILL be built with GUVMENT FUNDS.

ARCHDaily! informs its admirers that "The Pultry Project [SIC!] is launching Chicken Coop Design Competition"!

May the ugliest, most expensive looking coop win!

And no, we DON'T mean "co-op"! Or maybe we do.

P. S. And in MORE GENIUS from Mountain View:

See? Not EVERYTHING in ARCHDaily! is ugly.



And we can fathom the point of this, so long as it doesn't clash too much with the surroundings.

Where's The Beauty In Today's Architecture [SIC!]

Every day in ARCHDaily!

The link, alas, is to one of those highly verbose think pieces to which AHTSJournal is always drawn like moths to a flame, though this one never gets singed.

Another stroke of genius for fans of ARCHDaily!

(Via the usual AHTSJournal)

An argument against war: Without war, starchitects wouldn't need to put up buildings like THIS.

I've got an idea! Let's have thousands of people run around in there like mice!

The next time you build a rocket ship don't forget the engine -- and don't have it launch from a dock!

A gymnasium!

Well, how were we supposed to know?

It's in WASHINGTON D. C., NATCH -- where they WOULDN'T.

Only a STARCHITECT would assume a virtue in designing a building that looks ready to fall in on itself.



If we set up border checkpoints like this with Mexico NO ONE could get past them! No one would want to!



A $5 MILLION SERVICE STATION!

Is that a Denny's in back? And are the restrooms upstairs?



How many people can say they live beneath a superhighway on-ramp?



A yellow valentine!