They also questioned why the state had spent $41 million on world class architects for what is essentially a renovation to fix the convention center's leaky roof.
BUS STOP Unveils 7 Unusual Bus Shelters by World Class Architects originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 15 May 2014.
It seems that almost every art institution in Los Angeles has hired a world-class architect to design a building.
A World-Class Architect Ratner did not want a sports architect for his arena, let alone the entire complex.
"Brooklyn is a world-class city, and it deserves a world-class team in a world-class arena designed by a world-class architect," he said.
The news that world-class architect Frank Gehry was selected to design a memorial to US president Dwight Eisenhower came as something of an odd surprise in Washington.
He had been pursuing an agreeable career as an upper-class architect of schools and mansions when, in 1922, he won an international competition for a new headquarters for The Chicago Tribune.
However, the guide was otherwise suspicious of this new, complicated real estate invention, noting in 1881 that a successful co-op operation needed "a first-class architect, a first-class builder, and last, but not least, a first-class lawyer".
A similar disjunction between form and content occurs in The Goat, which is about a middle-class architect having an affair, though with the twist that the infidelity involves bestiality with the title character.
When Bruce Ratner hired Frank Gehry in 2004 to design a wrinkled-looking 76-story residential skyscraper in Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, the market for eye-popping luxury condominiums was booming, and the world-class architect's multimillion-dollar fees probably seemed relatively insignificant.
His first challenge was to get a world-class architect involved.
