Buildings

摘要

Time, perhaps, to talk about orthogonality. Remember the late 20th and early 21st century years of Blobism? The swirls, the swoops, the Mr Whippiness of it all? That formal approach, visually exciting and constructionally costly, was not killed stone dead by the financial crash of 2007-8 as many hoped - it is still an option chosen by certain people, organisations and states with an eye to the 'icon'. But as several of this issue's buildings demonstrate, the rightangle has reasserted its dominance.