Architecture: It Fails Us Now

Attention, Mon. Latouche, wherever you are..

A devastating NYT review of brilliant architecture finally gone too far in legitimizing the unquenchable corporate maw.

Its mysterious nautiluslike form, which can be easily dismantled and shipped to the next city on its global tour, reflects the keen architectural intelligence we have come to expect from its creator, Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born architect who lives in London.

Yet if devoting so much intellectual effort to such a dubious undertaking might have seemed indulgent a year ago, today it looks delusional.