Well, I mean...it's just condos, y'know?
re: supergraphics - kind of a non-architectural architectural movement growing out of Op Art and a general interest in grooooovy environments through graphics. A Flickr search should turn up some typical images...here's a nice one:
You know, that stuff.
John McMorrough writes in Hunch 11:
Supergraphics are those big arrows, numbers or words painted on walls and seen throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though clearly a minor occurence within the annals of architectural history during its time as a fad, it received some amount of critical attention. It was, for a time, presented as an answer (or at least a tool) to elevate to the aesthetic, social problems facing the man-made environment.
Basically, the appeal was that with just a thin coat of paint you could - without doing anything traditionally associated with architecture or interior design - transform the social conditions of a space, let's say from "boring, uptight, 1950s corporation" to "swinging, hip, groovy 1960s corporation." The limitations of this are probably pretty apparent, but that was the thinking at the time, as I understand it.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK, fair dos, they were not just being pretentious then! (maybe just a little).
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, they are architects. ;)
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 00:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 all of you
also, are there any wittgenstein/popper-esque stories about famous architects beefing? i never encounter these. are architects just chill?
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
ALSO: do people exist who find this style strictly beautiful?
Not interesting, not important, just awesomely beautiful.
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not me, but you will find a lot of love for, and images of, that breed of blocky, primary-colored postmodernism in arch. magazines from the late 80s through the mid-90s - GA would be a good place to look I think. Also the later works of Aldo Rossi and Michael Graves, off the top of my head.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, that's a Graves there. I just can't stand that kind of thing, and I've worried about it a lot and can't figure out why! The colors, the shapes...I'm just repelled by it all. Maybe it comes from being a child of the 80s and being inundated with suburban sprawl (vaguely) reminiscient of the above. I really don't know.
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Damn straight, I love that deep blocky, colourful architecture, and naturally I love Aldo Rossi (these are great)and certain things by Michael Graves.
Also see that Loyola Law school by Frank Gehry, which, being somewhat of a Gehry-naysayer myself, I think is way better than his other stuff.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
x-post, that is
Wait, you can't stand it/are repelled by it, but still find it awesomely beautiful?
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just personally, I think a lot of this stuff does play out in a really plainly dialectic fashion - so a lot of that stuff emerged specifically out of people being sick of white-box modernism in whatever its forms, which the architects in question had all been inundated with in their own formative years. And so similarly, we grew up in a world where every movie theater, doctor's office, student rec center, etc. looked like THAT stuff and we can't bloody stand it.
This is an oversimplification in a lot of ways - the architects in question are a lot smarter than I'm giving them credit for - but it does play a role.
The other story (in terms of how it became so ubiquitous) is that postmodernism's own hype had to do with communicating directly with the people, providing symbols that could be understood, etc. Whether or not the people could understand them, it reflects an interest in playing ball with the market. The architects themselves were singing the voices of cheap materials, historical quotation, and so on. The color palette might just be zeitgeist - I mean the 80s and early 90s were not, in my opinion, great times for color in general...
As a side note, I'm learning to leave room in my own tastes for things I Just Plain Like and Just Plain Don't Like, even if I can't intellectualize them yet. I can't fully rationalize my hatred of the 80s stuff or my love of Art Nouveau, the latter's just pretty and the former's just grody.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm generally just interested in them on aesthetic levels, especially when they're really pared down, minimal forms. cf. Michael Graves, on the other hand, does tend to be repulsive in, I guess, depending on 'postmodernism's own hype' and tend to make some disgusting buildings. Stuff like the above, though, I really like. It feels like forever since I read anything about architecture though, so I'm out of touch.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
the above meaning that Theatre Square building.
Xpost to myself, I misread your post. And the answer is yes, me.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't mind the early Rossi (the image mehlt's just posted for example) which I think is onto a specifically interesting kick about type, history, collective memory, a lot of other dry and spooky stuff that makes a lot of sense for something like a crematorium. Rossi runs into trouble later trying to articulate things like conference centers and I don't know what else, but they start getting gross IMO.
Early Graves is also really good - let's say pre-1980, but there might be some good stuff later. In general I'm interested in everything about postmodernism EXCEPT the historicist language and material palette of the 1980s. Like, if you read Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction, everything he's talking about sounds great - complexity, multiplicity, layering of meaning, etc. The Hollein I posted to the last thread would be an example of that (to me), or for that matter this Ricardo Bofill project which I don't think I posted:
The language is cloying, but the spaces are fantastic!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Friday, January 2, 2009 9:27 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
No, I find it awesomely ugly, I was asking if anyone else found it awesome beautiful.
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Postmodernism breaks my heart, it's architecture's loss of innocence. Before that there had always been a utopian bent to the profession - even if the buildings were failures there was at least a continual hope and search for a better way to do things and a desire to lift society. Postmodernism purposefully stepped away from that in the face of modernism's defeat and didn't aspire to anything greater than a series of classical reference punchlines without the dignity of proportion. The buildings were never going to be awesomely beautiful because they weren't even trying to be, which is sad. I love beaux arts neoclassicism because it was at least made with a real BELIEF in classicism, I don't think postmodernists believed in anything.
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Saturday, 3 January 2009 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hrm, well, I think that varies a bit...one thread of postmodernism was certainly the "Collage City"/Jane Jacobs line (that eventually leads to new urbanism) where there's an active project of trying to save the city, move away from the monumental and embrace the fabric - that seems like a project with social ambition to me. Or in the Bofill posted above, maybe those images don't quite get it across but there was a clear desire to give "palaces to the people," quoting history specifically to create something that the residents would recognize as grand and honorific.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 January 2009 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I used to think that the only thing unifying about postmodernist thought (or the only thing postmodernists "believe in") is a rejection of enlightenment ideals, but that's obviously glossing over a lot. For me, it is easy to view Modernism as truly beautiful as applied to one building, but equally as easy to view it as one-note as an archtectural movement, and even potentially oppressive. One manifestation of post-modernism's "social concern" (lol) would be multivalence, and the presentation of a variety (I was going to say "of aesthetic sensibilities", but I think "variety" is enough).
― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes - and then you have even more severe examples like Lucien Kroll (I think it's Kroll) where the architect's office has an open door, serving soda to the people who are going to live in the building and inviting them to make design decisions. Or Leon Krier, who believed that industrial building practice was so dehumanizing that it was better not to build, so as to avoid participating in the alienation of the worker. Postmodernism was a big umbrella, for a while there - I mean if you read an early edition of Jencks's Language of Post-Modern Architecture it really seems exciting. By the fifth or sixth edition all the photos look like the late Graves and the jig is up.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, and I finally posted my pics of WORKac's Public Farm 1. On the previous thread, I wrote:
"re: P.F.1 - Yeah, it was great - particularly in light of the kind of stuff that typically wins. They seem to feel that the committee or jury or whoever realized they were getting really tired of atmospheric projects. "We could have won last year, but not ten years ago." It was refreshing to me as a living example of Dutch-ness here on our shores (they both worked at OMA) by architects young enough that you could imagine "hey, that could be me!" So that's always going to be encouraging. But I also loved how much it was filled in with fun little gimmicks and gizmos - the periscope, the audio and video of working farms, the chicken coop...it was cool."
Extended, archi-nerd ramblings here.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jencks's Language of Post-Modern Architecture
This is what got me into architecture in the first place!
― roxymuzak, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha! Just read it last year after it seemed to keep coming up. Good stuff, I read a later-ish edition that was starting to really drag by the end though. Needed a fresh edit I think, got repetitious, but as a showcase of just neat stuff and ideas the first half is essential. The "Death of Modern Architecture" chapter is classic.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still remember where I was when I read that.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
...don't leave us hanging!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, it's not exciting in re: this thread, but I was in Nashville sitting on a couch at Douglas Corners waiting to go play a show. It's just a vivid memory because I enjoyed the reading so much.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 5 January 2009 02:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Know just what you mean - although in these grad school years there's pretty much one of three places I'm ever reading anything.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
i got the other thread locked, i hope no one objects to this? i think it's just confusing having 2 threads being revived and it's more of a rolling discussion thread at this point so it makes sense. if you do i'm sure we can get it reopened.
last post on the previous thread was hyggeligt helpfully linking us to SpaceInvading
http://www.spaceinvading.com/
thanks for that, it's actually a great link and saves quite a bit of trawling around various different blogs although it still has links to those blogs for more description, which is cool.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sou Fujimoto Architects' Wooden House. love it or hate it, you've never seen anything like it.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/1483004884_detailed-section.jpg
!!!
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think anybody who ever had blocks as a kid has seen something like it.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha, i was just about to add a similar caveat.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
BLOOMFRAME®The BLOOMFRAME® breaks out of the 2-dimensional facade to add to the usable space in this innovative design by Hofman Dujardin Architects.
prototype that is expected to go into actual production early this year:
Bloomframe® is an innovative window frame that can be transformed into a balcony allowing an increase in usable space with minimal intervention.
Bloomframe® offers the user a flexible living environment. By opening the window frame, it is possible to walk out through the facade and to enjoy a comfortable balcony. The dynamic balcony enables adding outdoor space to compact apartments in urban high-rise areas.
The Bloomframe® balcony can be operated automatically with a simple push of the button. The system includes provisions to guarantee collapse safety during opening and closing.
The drive consists of an rpm-controlled electric motor that operates the balcony at two points via an auto-braking reduction (drop safety). The movement is transferred by tie rods from these linear guides.
The fully open position is limited mechanically, which guarantees optimum safety of the converted balcony. The application of a combined powered/mechanical movement makes the system user-friendly and easy to open and close for everyone.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think I really understand the Bloomframe? It creates a not very attractive half-window when closed and doesn't seem to offer any advantages over a regular building other than potentially animating the building facade more - and you have to keep your patio furniture inside when you're not using it. I think I'd like it more with a glass bottom panel since it'll be up 80% of the time.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
SpaceInvading is one of my favorite things about 2009
I'm glad so many designers are doing these weird 3D circulation intensive tiny houses/follies, but I'd sure like to see some upholstery in them or at least first aid kits for the inevitable bloody heads.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
bloomframe would be cooler if the patio furniture folded out with it, like a pop-up book.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd like that! Or if the patio furniture was permanently secured to it so it stuck out from the inside wall of your house when closed.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
and if it wasn't the color of an HVAC component.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha yeah it looks like a big access panel.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, i love it. obviously it doesn't have to be khaki/grey, it can be any colour, i would imagine. the bottom half could possibly be glass but people have vertigo. white steel is fine by me. also you just sit on a chair that you have in your lounge, or whatever. i wouldn't imagine you would have specific furniture for it unless it was some cheap folding deck chair you could keep in a cupboard?
haterz
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm getting one
― cozwn, Thursday, 15 January 2009 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
me too, on m4ryhi11 road end.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yay new thread!
Doctor Casino, though you are a medical man with a gambling problem so far as I can tell from login name, I do like your flickr. It has been very good recently.
Which edition is the better one to start with? Is this book the same one under a different name?
I like the Bloomframe! I think it could be a real boon to new apartments. I loathe buildings like the blocky ones upthread. They are just grotesque monoliths hammering the pedestrian down with sheer BLOCK COLOURS. Just awful.
Ha!
― hyggeligt, Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
hi architects
looking at going on a solo field trip in march. probably europe. have been thinking of istanbul but that's just because I'd like to go there. where would you go? for like six days or so. money is an object but where would you go?
― conrad, Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Where to begin! I've only really done Western Europe (no further east than Vienna) and with huge swaths of untouched territory in there. My gut says you kind of can't screw it up in terms of travel, life experience, food, all that kind of stuff - are you trying to see the maximum amount of architecture possible or just have a great trip where you also see some fab buildings?
hyggeligt - thanks! It'll be dormant again for a while, I am now entering my last studio at school and am busy, plus obviously not traveling.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
re: That 2002 Jencks - it certainly SOUNDS like a revised edition of the original - Now rewritten and with two new chapters, the seventh edition brings the history up to date with the latest twists in the narrative, and the turn to a new complexity in architecture. Rewritten with new chapters didn't really serve the previous editions all that well - just started to feel aimless and tacked-on-to. But enough time had passed that I could imagine the 2002 volume being interesting, and I appreciate anything that calls out and explores the fundamentally postmodern qualities of 90s computer projects (Greg Lynn et al). Dunno... haven't read the new bits so I dunno if it's worth it or not.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is okay, jealousy at fancy locations was eating in to my soul anyway. Could do with the spiritual break! (xpost)
Thanks for that Dr Cas, will chance it and see when I'm flush.
― hyggeligt, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I should have said - have been to budapest, vienna, brno, prague, zurich, basel, madrid, barcelona, rome, florence, naples, berlin, munich, paris, krakow, amsterdam, rotterdam, brussels and others and places in between like leon in spain and vals in switzerland etc. and some UK stuff (I'm in scotland)
so, having never been up to copenhagen/oslo/stockholm/gothenberg/helsinki/tallinn/riga...I'm interested but don't have a ready idea of what's the best destination. not limited to europe other than in terms of the money issue
was looking at v cheap flights to oslo but hostels there seem on the expensive side. cheap flights and accommodation for gdansk but...I don't know if there's that much to see and can't seem to find good info
great trip w/ fab buildings would be fine but as much architecture as poss would be more justifiable in a way
― conrad, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's a lot of places. are you in glasgow?
i hear Lisbon is lovely (and cheap on easyjet)
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
what about croatia? supposed to be gorgeous.
― jed_, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
in glasgow yes (I mentioned conrad to you at a party on new years morning but it was early and late so I don't blame you for forgetting!)
had thought about lisbon and about porto too but was looking for something direct hoping to minimise cost and travel time
marseille? venice??
I should have found a better thread to ask this stuff as I obviously haven't been thinking about enough architects
― conrad, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can anyone identify this building?
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 26 June 2009 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
^No-one? I searched around but there are a surprising number of buildings with that colour glass.
Meanwhile...here's some nice prefabs...
By Marmol Radziner - see more/ read more here.
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 July 2009 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey ned, do you know of any other residential houses in the UK with that gwynne homewood pre-war modernist vibe?
― caek, Saturday, 4 July 2009 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Spencer, that building is here:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=29.805983,-95.446998&spn=0.001974,0.004085&t=h&z=19
― magical city of a 1000 taco geniuses (I DIED), Saturday, 4 July 2009 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hmmm, tricky. Not so much that they don't exist but that photos are sometimes hard to find.
There are Gwynne's own houses - all post war and (unless you happen to have a copy of this - difficult to find photos of.
There's this Breuer/Yorke house from 1937, not much glass though, but on stilts!http://www.flickr.com/photos/moxette/134436773
The Lubetkin bungalows at Whipsnade are terrific.You can see some great photos of them in this book - along with lots of others. This is the book to get for this type of thing I think.
This house in Bristol has a kind of Gywnne feel to it, for me.http://www.flickr.com/photos/fray_bentos/238595277/
Erm...Landfall by Oliver Hill? (one of my favourite architects)
Stuff by Connell, Ward and Lucas, especially 66 Frognall.
And so on!
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 July 2009 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, that last one reminds me I should probably mention Greenside by Connell, Ward and Lucas.but the whole saga of that house is so maddening that it makes me want to cry. This is what is there now.
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 July 2009 23:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks ned, that's great! a lot of that is going on my list. i'm researching architecture helping out on a friend's movie. he's asked me to find stuff like falling water in the uk. am i right in thinking falling water is "mid-century modernism", which is different to "modernism"?
― caek, Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
We already have a pretty good idea of era and atmosphere of suburban/semi-rural offices for institutional architecture we need:
e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/2987839224/
Barbican Centre, Union Carbide HQ, etc.
Also been looking at things like St Catherine's College, Oxford. The US side of this type of quasi-academic campus/building/institution/corporation is covered well in http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02Rlandmark.html.
For the residential houses our archetype is Falling Water, at least partly because it's in a forest, but we haven't thought as much about materials, styles, scales, etc.
― caek, Monday, 6 July 2009 00:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
"There's this Breuer/Yorke house from 1937, not much glass though, but on stilts!"
The flickr photo is set to private. Do you have it's name or any other links?
― caek, Monday, 6 July 2009 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here's another photo of the Breuer/Yorke house.http://www.flickr.com/photos/10208807@N04/3599792205/
Again, though, best views are in Modern book by Alan Powers.
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 6 July 2009 07:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Slightly different but may be interesting to you is the Dorich House from the 1930s.
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 6 July 2009 07:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks!
― caek, Monday, 6 July 2009 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Went and checked out "Modern" in the library today. some great stuff in there, thanks for the tip.
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
p.s. don't care if I saw this hotel in esquire magazine, I still want to visit juvet hotel:
― caek, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
looking forward to this (out in the fall, festivals first presumably): http://www.coastmodernfilm.com/
― caek, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shed KM (for Urban Splash) - award winning housing.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
low ceilings : (, but otherwise would much rather live there than barratt home.
― caek, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, they're the original ceilings!
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe it's the photos?
― caek, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have been in India the last little while, haven't been able to do as much architourism as I'd like yet, but I have definitely been thinking quite a lot about B.V. Doshi. This is his IIM campus here in Bangalore:
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2661/3973805857_479835e0b4.jpg";>
Great stuff - the building is like 90% these exterior spaces, a grid of what would be cramped crappy little corridors in near any institutional building I've ever been. Really great sense of indoor/outdoor overlap, breezes going by, rain falling right next to you, etc. I have tons more photos but won't really be in a position to scan them for a longish while, but you can find some good ones Googling.
For academic archi-dorks I've done some initial blogging on this guy <A HREF="http://codename-albacore.blogspot.com/2009/10/doshi-primer-iim-bangalore.html";>here</A>, but I'm really hoping to see more of his stuff and revise/expand those thoughts, in a month or two.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 October 2009 14:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
god damn bbcode
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 October 2009 14:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
Is it just me or have these groupings of square off-kilter skylight things been popping up EVERYWHERE in the last couple years?
http://whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2009/12/barnacles/
― I DIED, Sunday, 13 December 2009 10:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ha, reminds me of this in my own fair city. Although obv. completely different.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 13 December 2009 15:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
I know it's not really something a fact check would cover, but I can't believe the New Yorker profile on Zaha Hadid has the line "There is no single Hadid style", especially when the rest of the paragraph exactly describes that style.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
Thanks for the ID upthread I DIED!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
lenny kravitz
― conrad, Monday, 18 January 2010 05:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
SANAA wins Pritkzer. Given Pritzker discussion upthread I figured I'd put it here rather than Let's talk Architecture . What do we think?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
I'm pretty surprised that SANAA got it - usually firms are much more established/have a much larger body of work before they get a Pritzker. It's nice to see a firm getting the award while they're on the upswing. Also it's the second time the prize has gone to more than an invidual/individually headed firm (Herzon & de Meuron were the other), and I think it's healthy to steer the public away from the notion that great architecture is the product of a single mind.
― I DIED, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
I wasn't sure from the renderings, but from the way it's turning out Heatherwick's British Pavillion at Expo 2010 is about to make him the next starchitect:
― I DIED, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
^ the photo makes it look small, but it's about 20m tall
― I DIED, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:01 (5 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, is there a website anywhere with complete Shanghai pavilion coverage/photos/data? I've found a few blog posts that show a few of them haphazardly but I'd really like some kind of overall who-did-what sheet. Some of them look amazing.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:09 (5 months ago) Permalink
I haven't seen anything like that, just random stuff popping up on Flickr and elsewhere. I'm sure a lot of the magazines will do full rundowns w/ the opening of the Expo.
― I DIED, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:12 (5 months ago) Permalink
there are some amazing british pavilion photos at http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/shanghai_prepares_for_expo_201.html
― caek, Monday, 29 March 2010 15:13 (5 months ago) Permalink
Decent collection of Expo shots here - nothing near comprehensive, but the most I've seen in one place
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/28/shanghai-expo-2010-pavilions/
― I DIED, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
Some pretty cool things in there, I kinda wish North American would get the Expo bug again, I think it would be really cool to see what would come out of one.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 22:56 (4 months ago) Permalink
Thanks, I DIED. Serbian Pavilion ftw!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:34 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://en.expo2010.cn/participation/pop/moren.htm comprehensive. Check out the spectacularly bad SketchUp renderings of the Nepal Pavilion! There's hope for the rest of us.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 29 April 2010 22:22 (4 months ago) Permalink