“The global financial meltdown is likely to have one unintended side effect, predicts David Chipperfield: Fewer attention-seeking buildings will go up. ‘It’s an architecture of excess, a consequence of there being too much money around,’ says the British architect. ‘At a time when people are worried about other things, those things become really irritating, and probably less relevant.'”
Tag: 11.04.08
Frank Capra, Shakespeare and Trollope On Trade and Trust
“You recall George: in the person of James Stewart he stopped a run on the Bailey Brothers Building & Loan Association that would have destroyed it in the film ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ His predicament, with its eerie prefigurement of the present, provokes a closer look at the crossroads in which culture and finance intersect.”
Good For Google, Bad For Broadway?
Google and other tech companies are likely to get an Election Day gift “when the Federal Communications Commission votes on a proposal to make a disputed chunk of radio spectrum available for public use. … But a coalition of old-guard media — from television networks to Broadway producers — is objecting to the proposal, saying it needs a closer look. The opponents argue that signals sent over those frequencies could interfere with broadcasts and wireless microphones at live productions.”