Cultural Architecture’s Uncertain Future
January 13th, 2011
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Architecture has been one of the creative industries hardest hit by the economic downturn. BOP offered its thoughts on building cultural icons on Tuesday – including the entreaty to think big – but there’s no doubt that it is becoming more difficult to do. Dundee’s ambitious proposed new V&A museum is off to an uncertain start, while in Spain’s Galicia province the City of Culture (a vast complex of six cultural buildings designed by Peter Eisenman for the city of Santiago de Compostela) is running late and hugely over budget.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that younger architects are more cautious, though this article from Rowan Moore in the Observer suggests that the best of them are nonetheless doing some striking work.
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