Self sounds quite aggressive in his writing and the use of swearwords in an article was a shock but all helps make his article to stick in the mind. He discusses how London has grown around the power station and even next to new sky scrapers and other iconic buildings the sheer size of Battersea makes it still an iconic building. He almost seems to admire Hitler and how he supposes he would love the Battersea Power Station.
On the other hand Meades seems to almost be making fun of Hadid throughout his article. A few times in the article he makes comment on her English and seems annoyed that she is not communicating clearly with him. I actually found his English difficult to understand because is he being sarcastic to Hadid or trying to be nice to her? It is difficult to tell.
Meades seems to be admiring Hadids ability to design in different styles and admits that she ‘has style all right, but not a style.’ Then he goes on to say how she is scared by understanding her process and calls her a starchitect, I’m worried that he is kind of jealous of her celebrity status and like he is looking down on her because she lives in London but does not have any building in London by her name apart from the Olympic Aquatic Centre which he calls a scheme.
Where Self is almost seeming to admire Hitler and the Battersea Power Station Meades makes comment after comment about Hadid’s English, sex, talks about her as an artist rather than architect and even questioning her reason to live in London. Its all very strange. His article is difficultto read and understand his opinion because he does not seem clear on what his feelings for Hadid and her work are.....
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