Architecture

[Egpt]

thought i'd post some stuff in my city:

casa da musica:

vodafone porto: (couldn't find any non-rendered pics that showed the building properly, but from driving by i think it's finished by now)

[MrBurns]

Ah!

either you photoshopped it or the building to the right does not exist/look like that.

origami architecture at its poorest.

[my gym shorts]

this new building being put up in cerritos town center bases

millie and severson

its not completed yet but its starting to resemble capital hill sort of

[billionaireboy]

i would like to say your understanding of design does change once you study ,understand and are exposed great architecture. This is why at my school we visit great architecture and have case studies, once you absorb it, your palette for design becomes larger.

i must disagree, first if you call architecture art, you are wrong, architecture is architecture, and art is art.

art exist for no other reason then to exist for itself and serves no other purpose, so therefore anyone can judge art. Art is about revealing emotion or to appeal to a sense. Architecture is so much more then this.

Architecture is so much more complex.

you need a little bit of expertise to fully understand true beauty in the concept of form and the logic of space.

Anybody can say ya, that looks beautiful. but very few and truly understand why its beautiful.

architecture is not art, there are aspects of art in architecture, but if anyone is looking at a building with this singular aspect taken into account, they are already ignorant and therefore have bad taste.

neways...

the new building which will hold the arcopllis site

I am glad this is getting some publicity here.

My good friend's father (Bernard Tschumi) is responsible for this.

[semper]

A warm hello from Bochum, Ruhrgebiet, Germany.

[Analog]

Love Rem Coolhaus [sic]...Preston Scott-Cohen...

This makes me curious to see your fathers work.

mine is yokohoma ferry terminal, even though i havent been there, it just looks cool.

I've not visited either, but I did meet Farshid Moussavi about a year after they'd won the competition. She was pretty hot (for an architect).

Their winning entry at the time was very pie-in-the-sky.

[VuONG]

"coolhaus" is an ice cream company "koolhaus" is an architect

http://www.eatcoolhaus.com/

they came from sci-arc haha and they have very delicious ice cream

[semper]

It's Rem Koolhaas, pronounced "(rolling r)rem cole-hass"

[STFU]

I am fond of La Defense in Paris. Not to everyones tastes - perhaps my tastes are simples........

my favourite

[mr fluffernutter]

I'm sad that people don't do tile facades as often as they used to.

[Appleseed]

Get them tiles down to the stucco / vinyl siding price point, and then you'll see them everywhere!

[STFU]

I'm sad that people don't do tile facades as often as they used to.

I'm sad that the most impressive and modern building I have ever seen was built in the 80's.

[Appleseed]

To actually contribute; I was pretty stoked to see these this week-

http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6697648.html?desc=topstory

New Morphosis in Texas

[Analog]

They used to build such fantastic models. Now their models are rather generic.

[VuONG]

that new morphosis in texas is quite beautiful.

i think tom is still design what he believes in.

to him his building does not need to be beautiful as long as it serves its purpose.

theres nothing generic about there designs, just because they dont look like spaceships doesnt make it any less fantastic

[Appleseed]

They used to build such fantastic models. Now their models are rather generic.

As much as I love their old paint-splattered chipboard stuff, when you're going to sink $50~$100K into a model, it also kinda has to be appropriate for design review, planning commission, fundraising, etc. Occasionally review boards will stipulate color, material for physical models.

such is the difference in paper vs. real architecture.

[jeepster]

Analog - here's my dad's firm's site. Not very recent, and it's hard to say how relevant the information on my dad's specific work is on there, but http://www.gwgarchitects.com/

I could identify them if I took the time to go through the whole site. His style is his own compared to his other partners/the other architects in the firm.

[entropy kid]

To post a bit of my town: law school library by Calatrava (this is a real photo, believe me).

Link to a virtual tour:

http://www.ius.uzh.ch/static/virtuellerrundgang/start.html

[poshpol]

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[semper]

To post a bit of my town: law school library by Calatrava (this is a real photo, believe me).

I was in Zürich in August and I missed this. I think I had the worst possible tourist guide.

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

two recent projects that I liked...

especially this interior.

not usually a fan of religious sites and the corresponding structures, but this one struck me.

(yes, these were blogged about by untold millions within the last two days, sue me)

[HOLY]

i kinda like the Internarional style

only if i had some thing smart to write about the conection between fashonz and architecture aesthetics and shit

but im to tired to think

discuss

[jack napier]

does anyone have a source for decent photos of the stonborough house?

would greatly appreciate that... gotta see what wittgenstein was up to...

[Doom Phd]

thought i'd post some stuff in my city:

casa da musica:

vodafone porto: (couldn't find any non-rendered pics that showed the building properly, but from driving by i think it's finished by now)

The first thing I thought of when I saw this lol

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

digging it.

via.

it's a shame more doesn't get posted in here...

[mr fluffernutter]

building within a building

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

Though I personally find the Richard Meier led proposal the overwhelming worst I'd agree that the Libeskind design is pretty obnoxious. Especially from street level. Actually the only aspect I like is the voids they created out of the footprints of the towers... but I'm not sure about the the cascading waterfall aspect, might have been more powerful to actually leave them unfinished as some kind of actual loss.

If I had to pick from the options as they existed I think I was most drawn to the SOM/SANAA proposal, (though I think they withdrew, no?)

[octo]

some different stuff

Canadian maritimes

French Alps, Mont Blanc

Montreux, Swiss.

Montreal

[Appleseed]

^ While I would mostly consider the above 'vernacular' and not Architecture with a capital A, I would LOVE to know the story behind that off placed window in the third shot. I will give the benefit of doubt and assume it's intentional, but it looks like it could be one of those contractor horror stories we all have.

[keska]

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/9416811.jpg