From UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture:
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Kim Smith + Bo Helliwell – Blue Sky Architecture
January 13, 2014
6:30 pm
UBC Robson Square
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Helliwell and Smith are the inheritors of the organic tradition of modernism. They have been deeply involved with the ecology and topography of southern British Columbia and its interweave of sea, forest and rock. At the same time, they have always been open to ideas and influences from the rest of the world, translating and adapting them to their area.
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“They” Helliwell and Smith “have been deeply involved with the ecology and topography of southern British Columbia and its interweave of sea, forest and rock.” Nonsense.
They are merely the after effects of a once corpulent, over indulgent way of building we must now abandon. The contraption illustrated demonstrates my point succinctly: ponderous, wasteful, ugly!
Someone has more money than class!
This ponderous lumber pile illustrates just another unimaginative waste of natural resources: I am surprised, given our penchant for exporting what is left of our forests to China, there is anything left!
This is the reason good dimension lumber is scarce to unavailable.
These people cannot fool themselves much longer: time for a gullible public to awaken. There is nothing West Coast about this stuff: such sentimental design appeals to the thoughtlessly ignorant and distracted and at one time may have been found anywhere on the continent.
Apparently, and unfortunately, there is still an audience for this kind of retrograde sentimentality that does SALA no credit.
And there is a coterie of insensitive hangers on deluded enough to fall for it.