Heatherworld

I wrote down a rant the other day about Thomas Heatherwick getting to design the new Routemaster for London as Boris aims to trump Livingstones bendy buses and how it depressed me that his advisors sent him down the 'name' route after the terrible lost opportunity of the steel Olympic tower going to Anish Kapour who did a 'Kapour'. Kapours tunnel or trombone vision is an unmistakeable statement of self, a use of his vocabulary of form to impose himself on the Lodon skyline. When I saw that Thomas was doing the new routemaster I just felt that, rather than the best ideas, the big names were getting all the major jobs. I'd written something about how it would be better to have anonymous submissions. Thursdays bbc 2 Culture Show featured Heatherwicks British pavilion. I was blown away, te hairy fibre optic monster is a beauty. The biggest compliment I can pay Thomas is that he isn't about a single style. If you didnt know you would be unlikely to attribute all his works to the same individual.
Of course this has always gone on, Wrens cathedral Brunels 1 death a yard Box tunnel, but just because this has always been the way is a crap argument, take public hanging, bear bating, bull fighting etc. history is no reason to continue doing something. An open anonymous proposal system would dliver the best idea and we wouldnt be stuck with these dinosaurs of culture. Art has come a lon way sinc Kapour was at his creative peak. It feels like the mid 70s when rock giants like Yes, ELP, and Gentals walked the earth. Culture needs a fresh wave. A punk rock, YBA type explosion. There are now more body casts of Anthony Gormley scattered throughot britain than there are people. If they breed with the Henry Moores that wallow, hippo like in our city centres, thier offspring will take over. A job for Dr Who. We must take up arms.