[adma]

How practical is City Hall?

 

[Urban Shocker]

Not very, according to some who've worked there.

The Kapoor is expressive as all get-out, and has to be engaged with like a building to be appreciated. But does that functionality - meeting building codes, providing a viewing platform for tourists etc. - diminish it as sculpture?

Here's the Eiffel Tower as a piece of bare-bones engineering, before architect Stephen Sauvestre tidied it up for public consumption:

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/g_invention.html