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Modern Architecture

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

I recently stumbled across the story of the proposed new library in Prague. Here's the winning design: Res ipsa loquitur, as we lawyers often say.One of the library's defenders described the design in the Prague Daily Monitor: The term which has been used to describe the proposed shape of the National Library building on Prague?s Letná plain corresponds to a new worldwide trend, dubbed ?blob architecture,? ?blobism,? ?blobitechture,? ?blobismus,? or simply ?blobby.?Blobitechture is not very well known in the Czech lands. However, in the world around us, amoeba-shaped buildings are the latest rage in architectural design, and they would make our little ?Octopus? feel right at home. As luck would have it, not everyone is pleased with the "blob," and the proposed design has run into a bit of controversy...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).