A sort of Jacob’s Ladder and Labyrinth that only accentuates the empty longing of alienation and unfulfilled needs.
It’s like someone copied a stepwell, but didn’t understand the purpose of any part of its design.
‘in a city full of eye-catching structures, our first thought was that it shouldn’t just be something to look at,’ explains heatherwick. ‘instead we wanted to make something that everybody could use, touch, relate to. influenced by images we had seen of indian stepwells, made from hundreds of flights of stairs going down into the ground, an idea emerged to use flights of stairs as building elements.’
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/thomas-heatherwick-vessel-hudson-yards-new-york-09-14-2016/
if you look up other works by this designer/studio, there sure seems to be a theme of pretty bazinga ted talk stuff
and they seem to be a bit of a nepo baby too
It looks like an Unreal Tournament map, like the kind you’d design for 1v1 instagib
Brutalism died for this kind of sleek monstrosity.
No yeah she’s onto something
I just looked this thing up and it was estimated to cost between $75M and $200M, that’s pretty impressive for something made entirely of stairs.
