This appears to be just like what you have envisioned. Every detail is materialized as in the drawing. I am very excited to soon be able to visit the Light Pavilion when completed, to experience the space, the emotional quality, that one really need to be in it to understand the power of this piece.

Jackie

It is supremely exciting to see the progress of the Light Pavilion from its inception to these stages of construction. I have nothing short of pure admiration for your & Christoph’s principled, determined, and adventurous approach to the project enlarge–I am slowly building a China travel fund with the intention of experiencing the Pavilion first hand.

As for the anonymous digital shade throwing occurring on Architectural Record’s site, it is very fitting that a generation experiencing such a massive decline in job prospects and/or meaningful architecture has resorted to such tactics. Please pardon the cowardly vitriol spewed by my contemporaries, their lack of will or spirit has afforded them the free time to participate in such activities. They obviously believe the right of free speech allows for their uninformed opinion (as far as I know, none of them have actually inhabited/experienced the incomplete Sliced Porosity Block or Light Pavilion yet) to merit the same weight as an intelligent discourse on the project.

I look forward to more updates and the building’s imminent completion.

En avant.

finally (and this is a reaction to some of the comments on the arch record article), it seems to me that to limit the critique of the light pavilion to whether it’s sculpture or architecture is a bit like limiting the critique of globalization to whether it’s good or bad– a glib and unhelpful value judgement in lieu of a more difficult and relevant assessment of reality. and i’m less interested in what the ‘explanation’ of the project is, and more in what the consequences of the project might be (i don’t care if wright’s guggenheim was inspired by the tower of babel or a parking garage, i care that it permanently cracked open the city grid). the test of this project should not be whether one can literally or metaphorically live in it. the test of this project should be whether its participants come away permanently cracked open, or unfazed and happily consuming another smooth spectacle.

after all, a work of theoretical architecture is not an unbuilt project that asks if it can be built; it’s a built or unbuilt project that asks if architecture can still ask anything at all.