You've had your chance Buffalo. Now it's time to welcome new ideas.
The FLW Boathouse was a good start.
I do support projects such as Canalside that wish to invoke Buffalo's grand past as a building block for the future. However, the fact that it is the past that we're talking about means that there needs to be other avenues to a brighter Buffalo future. Simply recreating the past in much different modern times will only serve to fulfill a limited number of needs. It's time for this city to open itself up to the modern world.
Buffalo is a blank canvas... brownfields, parking lots and abandoned buildings.
Nowhere is the opportunity greater than Buffalo for architectural and environmental innovation.
Photo: City of Culture of Galicia
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The time to play it safe has gone (moved to Charlotte).
Buffalo needs to market itself as a city open to new ideas. The status quo should no longer be acceptable. It frustrates me that every national broadcast of a sporting event in Buffalo shows a cut-away shot of Niagara Falls. It should frustrate everyone that there is nothing in this city worth looking at, sort of speak.
The opportunity exists. Let's start with the National Weather Discovery Center. Let's create a modern marvel!
Take a look at Eisenman Architects. (click on the red N)
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Innovate Buffalo
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3 comments:
I agree w the Niag Falls always getting the view, although the Falls is about the only thing there that is worth viewing. A nice signature bridge would be nice, something that when people see it, it would be automatically known that it is in Buffalo, but instead looks like we'll be saddled w a twin eyesore.
what does this picture represent?
Jeff - follow the link under the picture
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