JG Ballard, On the Other Hand, Really Dislikes the Bilbao Guggenheim

Perhaps knowing that we’d be offering up a story yesterday on Gehry‘s Guggenheim in Bilbao, we found by way of Archinect that novelist JG Ballard came up with his own take on the building, asking if the museum is architecture at all. According to Ballard, it seems to him to belong “to the category of exhibition and fairground displays, of giant inflatables and bouncy castles.” That’s not to say Ballard hates the Guggenheim with a passion, he just doesn’t see this kind of structure, and others like it, Gehry-built or otherwise, as being anything more than a building ported from its true home: Las Vegas.