Hasta La Ideas

While everyone seemed positively aglow over the finally-together Burnham pavilions here in Chicago just last Friday, it appears that things aren’t going as hot as they should have. Zaha Hadid‘s pavilion was rolled out six weeks late early last week, but now its partner, Ben van Berkel and UNStudio‘s pavilion, is being removed for a few days while it gets patched up after weeks of people crawling all over it. What’s worse, less than a week old and already Hadid’s pavilion looks as though it’s been trampled on too, with many visitors stepping all over its cloth exterior. So who is to blame? According to this piece by Blair Kamin, it’s sort of a mix of everyone. Van Berkel and Hadid should have known to build sturdier structures, the city should have shared more concerns with their hired strarchitects, and the American people in general, for being louts (we should note that these aren’t Kamin’s words — and we decided to use “louts” as shorthand for what’s written in the piece because it’s fun to be mean and use the word “louts”). In the end, it seems like the whole thing is a good learning experience for 2109, for Burnham’s 200th anniversary celebration.

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