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The Scooby Doo.

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The wedding cake

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The Pirellone, or ‘Lower Manhattan’. That’s typical sardonic ‘Lumbard’.

https://www.bov.com/page.asp?n=newsdetails&i=9769

Fuori dentro dentro fuori. Geddit?

[Daphne – Oh, I think quite differently. That his behaviour and thinking account for his adoration of Joseph Muscat which is, incidentally, not the same as political support for Labour, as he doesn’t understand the first thing about politics.]

I would have thought he was better read in artistic matters and evalutaions of this sort. Sad, truly sad.

To think they started off criticising the bare structure, thinking it was the finished product. They hadn’t even seen the plans and models.

Piano’s also been criticised abroad for having diverted from rigorous function to ludical expression with this building. A diametrically opposed view to that of our native critics.

Piano should, according to them, relive the Pompidour. They haven’t been to this place.

Piano’s design was calculated to exploit natural light at different times of day all year round without the attendant heat gain of huge sheets of uncovered glass.

The aesthetics of the design are pleasing even if you’re not aware of the underlying thought and purpose. Once the building is open and can be viewed properly from all angles, public opinion will shift – not necessarily for the better, admittedly, but there’ll be something new to grumble about.

Shh. Hekk jonqos, pellegrinaggi mal-Hamilton tours.

The fact he has to assimilate geometry into objects of his personal memory proves he isn’t.

These defenders of fluted columns don’t even notice the paradox in making a fossil of abstraction.

Proportion, perspective, rythm, texture don’t matter to them.

Truth cannot move forward and pervade the times we live in. They prefer caging it in their dogmas, which faith, of course, belongs to their exclusive sect.

I stopped in my tracks next to the kiosks some time ago, watching the setting sun’s rays turn the altorilievo (because that’s what those facades are) into contrasting ochres and blues.

Building’s light, but Piano got himself engrossed in the interplay within the thickness of the outer skin, before carrying it inside. There’s so much to read, every page a delightful light-hearted composition.

Intilef jheda sakemm seta’. If that’s not Maltese.

It is not a coincidence that these two have taken it on themselves to be the ‘psataz’. They won’t acknowledge universality of beauty, geometry giving the right to everyone to enjoy it.

That’s too much to bear. Florentines have a word for their type, pisseri. Bow-ties, poses and all.

Expect nothing more, or anything better.

Analysis has shown the individual diamonds have their centres pointing towards a constant locus at eye-level, creating a holograph.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spumador/5102834799/

Piano’s west and north facades (still to be closed up) could carry an algorithm for us to decipher.

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