What do you think of Coop Himmelblau’s HS No. 9 school in L.A? (Metropolis Magazine, July/August 2011 issue)

They had an article in Metropolis that wasn’t about chairs? Sure, now that I’ve cancelled it.

Obviously that student has never been in a correctional facility. There are too many windows and no barbed wire. I think alien spacecraft meets nuclear power plant is a more fitting description.

The building is so dumb it’s cool. I’ve passed by there there many times and it’s inspiring. My high school was pretty, but it’s definitely on the lame side. Comfortable or not, the building gets the creative mind going- fit for a performing arts school.

I dig the architecture.  I am tired of everything being safe, so kudos for that.  Kids need to be aware of the possibilities of life, this could stimulate them in an interesting way.  On the other hand, the landscape seems to have been treated with indifference, which sends a really poor message.  The landscape from what I have seen looks like a sea of concrete… which is like applying a 1950’s site design approach with a 21st century building popped on it.

Go forth and subdue nature, bend her to your will, for you are man, superior.

Just saw the thing online..UGGGG. It doesn’t look like a prison, prisons are nicer than this. It looks unfinished, or in a state of abandonment. The design is downright Soviet..or gulagism. What was the school thinking of? In places such as schools, form needs to follow function, and there is a long wstablished method for design. These ‘architects’ don’t seem to subscribe to practicality, or even what is proper. Kind of like several famous libraries designed by famous architects. You know the ones..the roof leaks on to the stacks, and there are nore windows than a solarium…neither of which are great for the preservation of books.

Morons