Comments on: The Grinning Smithsons http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/09/10/the-grinning-smithsons/ contemporary metamorphoses Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:57:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: seier+seier http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/09/10/the-grinning-smithsons/#comment-108725 seier+seier Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:26:18 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/?p=255#comment-108725 visited this summer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/5414092044/ I heard the new owner is an architect, is cleaning up the outside areas according to original project, and will be extending the smithson shed. visited this summer:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/5414092044/
I heard the new owner is an architect, is cleaning up the outside areas according to original project, and will be extending the smithson shed.

]]> By: seier+seier http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/09/10/the-grinning-smithsons/#comment-46652 seier+seier Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:39:45 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/?p=255#comment-46652 ironic is not the word, paradoxical is more like it. the smithsons are still hated by their british colleagues even after they are dead and the rest of the world looks on in wonder. we did the same in denmark with utzon who was given one public commision in his entire career. but we don't use this disgraceful behavior of official denmark as a reason to question utzon's talent as has happened in so many articles and blogs about the robin hood gardens. ironic is not the word, paradoxical is more like it. the smithsons are still hated by their british colleagues even after they are dead and the rest of the world looks on in wonder.

we did the same in denmark with utzon who was given one public commision in his entire career. but we don’t use this disgraceful behavior of official denmark as a reason to question utzon’s talent as has happened in so many articles and blogs about the robin hood gardens.

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