Is ‘Zombie Building’ Trend Ruining Our Cities?
"According to Australia’s top architect, the national built environment is at risk of losing any form of substance or cultural contextualisation.
Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) gold medalist Lawrence Nield has gone so far as to say many structures in the built environment are essentially ‘zombie buildings’ and has called on architects to move away from the ‘look at me’ architecture styles that competes with its surroundings rather than reflecting them.
“Now an architect, not a society or the taste of the aristocracy, decides individually on a building’s language,” he says. “This has turned our city environments into an often-noisy collection of individually competing buildings that are expressions of architects’ personality. We are getting a look-at-me architecture that does not have any cohesion in the city.”"
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