Which isn’t really a surprise. Perth’s only genuine architectural movement Shedism is referenced in myriad ways here. The shed shape, the (transparent?) corrugated iron motif on the top floor, the disdain towards location and heritage buildings. That Koolhaas has finally come out as a Shedistophile, also not surprising. The only thing it’s not is ‘bold and distinctive’. It also has a touch of traditional Noah’s Ark representation about it, which being nautical design Shedism also not surprising. The artist impression didn’t add the logo.Now corrected.
The Worst of Perth 
“Lots of things are built in the Sheds of Australia……….. But who builds the sheds”, is the real question.
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Will it have asbestos?
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With gyprock over the stud wall inside. One can hope.
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To be fair, this is only a design concept. No one has yet designed any real building, nor is there approval for works to start. It could get a lot worse yet.
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Imagine if Koolhaas wasn’t involved, albeit half asleep.
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Delirious Perth ?
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I would like outrageously bad – which has a chance of being regarded as good later, much better than mediocre which will always be the same or worse.
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and yet you loathe the arena?
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I don’t think it’s bad in the right way. It looks cheap and a poor copy of fed square.
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The deep long span diagonal panel truss only semi concealed within der top – floor Transparenz means about 35 more storeys may be added as part of a future redevelopment for a really really great high rise mixed – use residential ‘ tower ‘ . This will transform the museum site into the Raine Square of creative culture .
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Imagine if they tried to build this in Guildford. Imagine…
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Lol. How are the apartment sheds going?
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A giant colourbond rollerdoor would, I admit be a nice touch.
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Think Sauerbruch ; think Hutton ; think Sydney ( West Circular Quay ) ; think 2001 ; think public competition ; think fiasco ; think Sartor .
Maybe better not think Sartor .
Definitely think big beautiful light box ‘ hovering ‘ over ( not ‘ hoovering ‘ ) dark opaque historical old ugliness . Think another BBLB already a few years old atop State Theatre . A third will make a ‘ collection ‘ of them . Where will it go ?
Has Rem OMA never visited that post Olympic purposively globalised Sydney City of the mind ? Where only Danish Modern has ever been grudgingly allowed to drop anchor , disembark and procreate but not to engender anything other than warmed over Harvard Bauhaus over and over again ?
This amnesiac BBLB is just another refugee from Europe who couldn’t get a job back east . It has settled with another of its kind and will soon create a family and then a ghetto of its kind in Northbridge .
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We need enough to fill out the coffee table book “Masters of Shedism”. Yes the top of the theatre is Shedist.
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Have updated the photo.
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Ah that explains the crowds near the entrance, looking for sausages.
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and how glorious it is now.
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There has been commentary that if only we had a rockstar architect involved, we would finally see some good new architecture in Perth. But this shows that it is not necessarily the case. Koolhaas has phoned in his contribution (whatever it was) on this one.
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Back of the napkin?
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He then phoned in that napkin.
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Faxed?
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He forgot the fineals.
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It’s not your job to be as confused as Nigel.
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Rem OMA is not really an architect so much as a cultural phenomenologist , a sort of Roland Barthes of urban architecture .
There’s more delirious Perth stuff happening on this site than he appears to have realised … Or about which this design may be capable of enlightening everybody .
Was there a literary text accompanying the submission ?
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I’m hoping haiku.
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The Emperor has promised a rapid rail tunnel to the museum
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I like the little neo-Gothic granny flat.
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It s an ‘ American Romanesque ‘ granny flat . Pre – Bauhaus ( what the hell ! pre – architecture school ) Harvard with a soupçon of Porcellian – flavoured Ecole des Beaux Arts .
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Yeah I knew I was close.
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A Miss Thang is as good as a mile …
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All they need to do is put Dean Nalder in charge of it and it and it just won’t happen.
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The museum will be installed in a series of tunnels to be named Das KunstBunkerMuseum
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Would be even better if it were converted to a mosque, either after Bunnings sells it, or as part of a joint partnership.
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Just teabagging that little church.
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Correct.
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Surely there will be a lot of Masters mosques.
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Such a shame. Another case of accountants winning. Could the enormous overhang/shadowing of the heritage buildings be the most symbolic element of the whole project? Well, apart from the rampant shedism.
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There’s a lot of that going on here too – the NYC Art Student’s League will soon have a 90-story tower “cantilevered” over it, cutting off rooftop studio light. I think the message is “if we can’t stomp the past into oblivion, we can at least express our contempt for it by making it look as if we’re just about to do so.”
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it is just another nasty way of getting more floor space when you can’t demolish the nice old stuff.
i fucking hate it.
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Maybe the overhang should be shaped like a cloud. A cloud that rains down hate onto the old building below?
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Have we discussed here the weird District Court building in the east end of Hay St? It has a sort of retained heritage portico.
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Not sure. How about the Alex Hotel.
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a classic example of facadism, and a ridiculous outcome aesthetically speaking.
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This would appear to beg the question as to where any good architecture is these days. The above design is a tweak or so away from Rem library in Seattle (which was actually lauded by the architectural press at large when it was completed).
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I like his qatar library.
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The Seattle one looks better to me. That it’s not overhanging an old building might be some of that.
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Isn’t the hangover supposed to kick in after you’ve gone home from Northbridge?
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john day will make a cheap and versatile exhibit and comes ready stuffed. They can put him inside the whale skeleton or stand him next to the thylacine
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The bison is the best thing in museum. Should be on the roof as a finial.
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I hope future kuntz like it more. It will be about 2090 by the time it is paid for along with the $31bn on Emperor Barney’s credit card.
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i beg to differ – the sunfish is the best thing.
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Is that the thing under glass out the back?
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yes.
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Thought it was some kind of shark. I want to say basking…
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Bludging more likely.
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Sunfish more of a huge round slab. Like a semi submerged shipping container.
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whatever it is, it is my favourite thing.
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I’m a bison fan from way back but the blue whale would be a close second. Vintage cars on the other hand…
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They sold them years ago.
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Hopefully they grind the Muttaburrasaurus into the new foundations. Lamest dinosaur ever. A source of national shame.
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How true.
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The Meh-asaurus.
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I tell my kids it’s from New Zealand.
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The Crowded House of dinosaurs.
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A stuffed john day exhibit could also stand next to the dinosaur. Because he’s versatile. And drive vintage cars in period costume. And he makes a great argument against intelligent design for those school excursions.
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