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Known by the locals as "el muerto," "el gusano," "el monstro," if ever pathos and architecture have merged, it is here between the shore of a mystic pink salt lake and the edge of a modest neighborhood of white stuccoed homes. On this threshold, Toyo Ito was commissioned some years ago to build a spa, and in the process (over-run by the Spanish financial crisis and local internal politics beyond Toyo's control), the local powers-that-be pulled the plug on the project leaving the semi-naked structure of this potential gem to rot under the blistering sun...or is the other way around? Is it a gem precisely because it sits unfinished in a beautiful state of decay never intended? Every year since 2010 we visit this mummy, this spiraling crustacean, this whale's carcass levitated on a concrete pedistal, and every year it is more beautiful in its entropic un-life. May we see you again in 2016, you tar paper croissant...you beautiful parametric-turd-you....love you loads.
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Just a thought: Cal should just buy us this toy and make it the official summer studio in Spain headquarters! Anyone know any donors?
A.S.J.
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