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Eavesdrop> LA's Westside Urban Forum hands Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor Darth Vader Awards

Eavesdrop> LA's Westside Urban Forum hands Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor Darth Vader Awards

 

It’s good to see some good old-fashioned roasting, and that’s what the Westside Urban Forum’s WUFFIES awards are all about. This year’s event, held earlier this month at the Los Angeles Times of all places, was full of the usual snipes on botched RFPs and difficult County Supervisors. But it also got in some good jibes at architecture’s expense. Our favorite: the Darth Vader Award, which went both to Peter Zumthor’s foreboding, jet black LACMA expansion and to Renzo Piano’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum with its helmet-looking theater bulging out of the old May Company Building.


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