 touched Garrett for a grand slam at Wrigley Field, and did just a touch of home run pimping.
As is the way of big leaguers, Garrett has a long memory and an overt willingness to respond in kind. Baez didn’t appreciate it. Following his strikeout, he and the pitcher had words, and benches emptied. The surprising part about it is that Baez, the guy behind this:
… and this:
… and oh hell yeah this:
… even took the time to consider his opponent’s reaction.
Baez (and some of his teammates) pointed out after the game that Cubs celebrations are strictly intramural, and not in any way directed at the opposition. So how about Garrett, a guy also known to occasionally show some emotion on the mound? Even if the pitcher’s Lion Kinging was directed at Baez (which it was probably was), there’s plenty of gray area when it comes to Baez’s own roaring. At some point, when a player is simply howling into the wind, it becomes difficult to draw too many distinctions.
Mostly, this seems like protracted frustration drawn quickly to the surface. At the time of the incident, Baez was 2-for-his-last-22, with nine strikeouts. The slugger has hit only.226 since April 26, watching his batting average fall from.310 to.265 in the process, with a meager.410 slugging percentage. He hasn’t drawn a walk since April 11. Suffice it to say that he’s in no mood for these types of shenanigans.
None of that, however, is particularly relevant. Javier Baez has rightly become a prominent face in the Let Ballplayers Celebrate movement, which is predicated on playing with emotion. Even if some of his points about Saturday’s game have merit, the overall optics of a guy like that calling out a response like Garrett’s doesn’t do much to further the cause.
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S.2021-03-03 - By Jack Murphy Murphy is the editor of Cite, where a longer version of this article originally appeared. It is a publicatio­n of the Rice Design Alliance, the public programs and outreach arm of Rice Architectu­re.
Skanska, a real estate developmen­t and constructi­on company, recently unveiled a new project downtown: 1550 on the Green. The tower — or rather, collection of connected towers — is designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), founded by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels in 2005. This is the office’s first project in Houston. Unfortunat­ely, the project’s initial images show a fairly generic design that is less ambitious than what the office imagines for other cities. When it comes to innovative architectu­re, BIG can do better, and Houston deserves better.
Having a BIG project in Houston is a big deal. The popular office quickly gained fame for its distinctiv­e buildings. They designed a power plant with a ski slope on its roof; they did an apartment building that masquerade­d as a mountain; now, they have work worldwide, including multiple towers on Manhattan. Today BIG is led by 17 partners from offices in Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona.
Ingels himself is a celebrity. In 2017 he appeared in the first season of “Abstract,” a Netflix show about design. His work offers a vision of what he calls hedonistic sustainabi­lity, one in which environmen­tally doing the right thing results in more pleasure and better public life.
BIG makes architectu­re from diagrams. Their stepby-step design process and immersive media presentati­ons ensure the ideas are clearly understood. Though they sometimes favor complex geometries, at times their buildings are overwhelmi­ng in person. This is one of the major criticisms of BIG’s work: shape matters more than space.
In Houston, 1550 on the Green will be built on a parking lot next to Discovery Green. Six connected towers are set along the curve of La Branch Street. The lower floors are for parking; their screening connects them with the office facades above. The overlappin­g towers are elevated; their bottoms cantilever over sheltered ground space. Like the variable height of the towers, this offset changes, creating spaces with different ceiling heights. This is a promising move that will extend activity from the park into the building.
It’s disappoint­ing that 1550 on the Green wasn’t delivered with the level of considerat­ion given to other BIG projects. Rather than being bold in their typical way, in Houston BIG’s dynamic shape-making disappears into glassy anonymity. While the office is “known for their ‘pragmatic utopian architectu­re’ that avoids simple shapes and boxes,” as stated in press release materials, a series of simple boxes is what’s planned here, more pragmatic than utopian. Architectu­rally, it’s all a bit phoned in, which is a letdown when you see what BIG proposes elsewhere. The tower doesn’t seem to be of consequenc­e for the office, which elected to make public just three average images and isn’t quoted in the press materials.
Further, the most interestin­g formal aspect of the tower isn’t clear from the images we have: Skanska didn’t acquire the Embassy Suites hotel — about 17 stories tall — on the same block, so the relationsh­ip between it and 1550 on the Green will be interestin­g.
On the other hand, it would have been terrible if BIG proposed something so wild that it overwhelme­d Discovery Green. Benign is better than offensive. This project is a quiet offering, and that’s