Does Will Alsop Suck?

Phreakhog · Post by **Phreakhog** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:09 am

Probably

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:10 pm

Who on earth is Will Alsop?

Post by **Mike** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:42 am

Will Alsop is a famous architect who is famous for designing colourful blobs and renaming existing things.

Will Alsop Website

If you can navigate the above website easilly it will be a mirical - what a useless way to transmit information. . .

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:12 pm

Will Alsop famous, you say? So famous I've never heard of him...

What A website he has though - like drowing in treacle...hmm, treacle

idlewood · Post by **idlewood** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:30 am

ahhh damn read the whole line wrong

does will alsop suck

take it his isnt about gay porn then?????

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:19 pm

Will Alsop does suck, purely for that piece of shit web-site. But some of his staff are well fit. Did he do the super-city thing? That was quite a cool idea. Hooray for high-speed train links.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:00 am

mr_e wrote:Hooray for high-speed train links.

That ironically already exist. Wow, all that promotion for a rail line upgrade. . . .

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:28 pm

We have high-speed trains? Oh, hang on, are those Pendolinos up and running then?

Post by **Mike** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:52 pm

Sorry my grammer is dreadful. The lines exist, all he is proposing is a rail upgrade.

John Knight · Post by **John Knight** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:53 am

Indeed. as does the supercity he just propsing calling it one.....lets be honest if you drive along the M62 you have exactly what he is proposing dense urban centres along a transport spinewith some green spaces between them. Except we call them Liverpool,Warrington, Manchester, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds..

mr_e · Post by **mr_e** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:56 am

Thinking about it, that really reminds me of those Richard Rogers proposals in Cities For A Small Planet, but slightly more crap. You know, the linear ones, where everyone is within fifteen minutes walk of the main transport spine?

It would appear that Will Alsop does indeed suck.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:11 pm

mr_e wrote:It would appear that Will Alsop does indeed suck.

Or indeed he is very clever as he has worked out a fascinating way to get paid for thinking up new ways of presenting old ideas. Maybe we should call supercity a 'Re-branding' exersise.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:04 pm

:D I am not really sure how I came across this sight, but I was trying to research Will Alsop and am not too sure where to look. :( Really annoying. Could anyone help?

Post by **Mike** » Thu May 05, 2005 9:05 pm

Anonymous wrote::D I am not really sure how I came across this sight, but I was trying to research Will Alsop and am not too sure where to look. :( Really annoying. Could anyone help?

That is rather random isnt it. I would first suggest checking out his website. Click Here. This website is sort of difficult to navigate but it is a start. Other than that try his books, inspirationally called;
Will Alsop Book 1, 1968-1990. Kenneth Powell, ISBN 1856692388, ?28.99 new, ?12 used on amazon.
Will Alsop Book 2, 1990-2000. Kenneth Powell, Mel Gooding, ISBN 1856692795. ?42 new at amazon.
Or you could try the SuperCity exhibition in Urbis (if you are in manchester)
Or the New Islington plan for Great Ancoats area.

I am sure if anyone else has any suggestions they will post them here. Out of curiosity why are you researching Will Alsop? Are you a student architect?

Mike

idlewood · Post by **idlewood** » Fri May 06, 2005 11:00 am

off top of my head (which is quite an empty an windy space i admit)

schemes will alsop has been involved in are:

Modern Art Gallery, Toronto (big coloured glass building on stilits)
Peckham Library (big coloured glass building on stilts that won the stirling prize; the interior has some wicked looking timber pod/rooms of weird shaped but i believe they are coming apart at the seams now)
New Islington masterplan (for the ancoats area of Manchester; lots of coloured glass buildings on stilts around a new extension to the existing canal. a better proposal would have been touse the canal to droen the preponderance of scallies from there THEN build)

I also believe he did the master plan for Barnsley, which is based on the idea of a Tuscan hill town, where he wanted to flood the centre of the city and then design around it.....

also, his supercities theory which would have linked the country as a giant Z of cities literally (glasgow to edinburgh down to newcastle across torks thru manc/liverpool down birmingham etc...u get the idea??

also and worth to note:

am not a big fan of will alsop