terra non firma: pickles, gherkins and giant penises

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Torre Agbar, Barcelona, Jean Nouvel

copyright seems to be a hot topic these days in architectural circles (or maybe I've just become more sensitized to it because of the book proposal aram and I are working on). so in the past few hours I've come across this article from the independent online on the non-plagarism of jean nouvel's gherkin-like structure in barcelona, torre agbar, which bears a striking resemblence to norman foster's swiss re building in london. to make sense of it all (and possibly use as fodder for the book?) I might attend this lecture - achitectural copycats: copyright myths and realities.