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Article: Letters.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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PROGENY OF CYBER ANORAKS?
SIR: Your January issue contained two buildings that seem to be 'all the rage': the Yokohama Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, and the Imperial War Museum of the North (what a dreadful name) by Daniel Libeskind.
Both of these are fashionable -- but why? The Terminal (which can be used but rarely) appears to be little more than a series of wandering rather gloomy ramps, and, outside, you are not even allowed to walk on the grass, an unlikely material which has been installed with such vast expense in the middle of the sea.
The museum is supposed to be a representation of shards of an earth shattered by war but ...