On the top of the old people's home, taking the place traditionally occupied by a religious statue, the golden, overscaled TV aerial makes a statement about electronic communication and physical space. The super-sizing and material coding of this piece of broadcast infrastructure is both functional and symbolic. Just as Chuck Berry had sung about radio in a secular musical form derived from religious origins, the Guild House aerial can be read as an acknowledgement of the complex relationship between architecture and the buzz of communicational networks. More specifically, it asks us about the relationship of architecture to media.
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