Well, I know I won't be like those well-known archi bloggers but here goes.

Lets start with something local.

Ahh... Vivocity. Its designed by a well-renowned and respected Japanese architect, Toyo Ito. So much hype about the architecture (locally). But in the architectural world (I don't mean to sound elitist) its a Disaster with a capitol D.

Here's what it looks like inside.

I don't mean to say Toyo Ito was out of his mind, oh no no no... in the first place I doubt it was his one hundred percent intention and design. Heard rumours that Toyo Ito and Co. had to clean up the mess of some bankrupt American architectural and construction firm at the last minute.

If that wasn't true, then I would highly suspect that the local companies were stingy; wanting to save money and compromise the design with cheaper alternatives for the form and material.

Proof of that? Well, Toyo Ito won a design competition for an opera theatre in Taichung, Taiwan. His entry (from the model below) looks a lil bit like Vivocity (hardly surprising cause architects tend to stick to their tried and tested designs, a.k.a recycled designs). If the real deal would look exactly like the model, then I believe that that would have been Ito's original intention for Vivocity too. This is probably what Vivocity should have really looked like.

Well, I know I won't be like those well-known archi bloggers but here goes.

Lets start with something local.

Ahh... Vivocity. Its designed by a well-renowned and respected Japanese architect, Toyo Ito. So much hype about the architecture (locally). But in the architectural world (I don't mean to sound elitist) its a Disaster with a capitol D.

Here's what it looks like inside.

I don't mean to say Toyo Ito was out of his mind, oh no no no... in the first place I doubt it was his one hundred percent intention and design. Heard rumours that Toyo Ito and Co. had to clean up the mess of some bankrupt American architectural and construction firm at the last minute.

If that wasn't true, then I would highly suspect that the local companies were stingy; wanting to save money and compromise the design with cheaper alternatives for the form and material.

Proof of that? Well, Toyo Ito won a design competition for an opera theatre in Taichung, Taiwan. His entry (from the model below) looks a lil bit like Vivocity (hardly surprising cause architects tend to stick to their tried and tested designs, a.k.a recycled designs). If the real deal would look exactly like the model, then I believe that that would have been Ito's original intention for Vivocity too. This is probably what Vivocity should have really looked like.