Bullshit Island

"Barcelona Island will be an out of this world experience for all guests of ‘Mobilona Space Hotel’ who wish they could travel to distant galaxies. The man-made island in Barcelona will be built by a multinational consortium under the leadership of Mobilona's Global CEO Jerome Bottari and represents an initial investment projected at €1.5 billion. Mobilona is committed to improving the climate by operating Barcelona Island with zero carbon emissions and by producing green energy for the people of Barcelona." [emphasis added]

Making Bullshit Mountains out of Buildings

"If architecture is landscape, buildings are mountains." 

-Vicente Guallart, chief architect of the city of Barcelona and general director of Urban Habitat, founder of Guallart Architects and of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Image courtesy Guallart Architects.

Provocative Architecture?

In "Little Frank and his Carp", a 2001 video of a performance by artist Andrea Fraser, architecture, replete with its institutional frame, becomes a stimulus for masturbation. Is this architecture at its most provocative? No, unless this was part of the architect's design intention; something which only Frank Gehry can tell us for sure. Architecture can't take all the credit here: it takes two to tango.