i couldn't actually work out whether they were trying to take the piss by going on about how serious they were? or do they just have zero sense of humour?
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― jed_, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
also, i still don't get the Bloomframe exactly - why not just...have a balcony?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think they were taking the piss, but trying to be funny by talking about how serious you are only works if you're funny.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Friday, 16 January 2009 17:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
i just see it as another way to have a balcony. it's neat and clever and seductive!
― jed_, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Well yeah, transforming stuff is kind of guaranteed to be cool in my book.... but would you ever actually have it in the closed-up position?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
I guess it depends on climate really..
if you were in glasgow the question would be - would you ever actually have it in the open position?
― jed_, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
No, the question would be - why do you actually live in Glasgow? Ba-dum-CH!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'd laugh at that if i didn't take myself so seriously.
― jed_, Friday, 16 January 2009 17:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
I beg your pardon; I know next to nothing about Glasgow and am just free-zinging.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2009 18:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
;)
― jed_, Friday, 16 January 2009 18:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok were the designers of Jenga paid off for this
― roxymuzak, Friday, 16 January 2009 22:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
also, "free-zinging"! cute.
― roxymuzak, Friday, 16 January 2009 22:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
I blogged about Michael Graves :/http://theskyscraperblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/something-about-hating-michael-graves.html
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 17 January 2009 04:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Great Blog Name!
― mehlt, Saturday, 17 January 2009 05:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
THANKS!
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 17 January 2009 21:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
hi, what's happening in architecture? has spaceinvading replaced our lovely thread?
― jed_, Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
Frozen skyline
And I guess things have got worse since then. Mentions Newhall in Essex, which has some quite interesting smaller houses.
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Reversible Destiny Housing by Arakawa and Madeline Gins
Neo-Hundertwasser?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ooooh speaking of Spaceinvading these are great: http://www.space-invaders.com/ I saw a good few in Paris (including on Picasso's chimney). Great fun!
I've a few on the flickr account thingy but can't post private pics to ILX sadly...
― hyggeligt, Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ha, I've seen a few such things too, never realized it was a movement (or whatever)!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
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― jed_, Monday, 9 February 2009 20:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
wtf?!
― jed_, Monday, 9 February 2009 20:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's not the actualy 'square' that went up in flames, no? 'Just' one of the buildings next/across it?
Anyway, a sad thing. They had Rem Koolhaas on Dutch TV and he was pretty gutted.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
ah yes, the news reports on this are pretty confusing. still an unfinished koolhaas building goes up/down. sad.
― jed_, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
this one:
which i think is hideous but there's little point in discussing that now.
― jed_, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
It looks like an uncomfortable chair. Still RIP and all that...
― hyggeligt, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
ha, yes it does!
― jed_, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
symbol of 2008 starchitect culture inadvertently becomes symbol of 2009 starchitect culture
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Monday, 9 February 2009 21:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think you can. At least I have in the past.
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 February 2009 21:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
guys, teach me about Lebbeus Woods and where to start with his work
― mh, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 01:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act is good.
He's a good thinker and a great draftsman - he started out doing renderings in Saarinen's office! Super radical unusable proposals, but at heart he's a big classical softie with all the attendant ideas about the shape of a city reflecting the shape of a culture that you see in Boullee or Alberti's work.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
I should look him up - I know him only from the rather stiff treatment Neal Leach gives him in Anaesthetics of Architecture for, I guess, taking formal inspiration from the devastation of Sarajevo? Or something? It's been a little bit and I was reading it in a hurry.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
should be 'neil'
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
― mh, Monday, February 9, 2009 8:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^fuckin huge stan of this guy
― lol (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 05:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
haha my friend texted me "did you hear about rem's building getting butthaased"
― lol (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 06:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 February 2009 21:53
Okay will try.
― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 09:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yay!
― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 09:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
That Q-Bert is great!
This is my favorite that I've seen:
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 13:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Understated but ratjer cool I think (and reminds me of the Langston Hughes Library that was posted in another thread).
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
And this house in Paris looks interesting. Although you can't really tell from this pic...Lots of pictures at the architects website...http://www.new-territories.com/lostinparis.htm
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
Maybe that should be in the fantastic buildings thread...
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
I love that house! The glass pine cones do look like willies though so A- as final result.
I am jealous of Doc Cas' space invader! My first was on the chimney of that old studio in Montmartre. Too lazy too google it I'm afraid, Picasso did his thang there.
― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 15:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, Francois Roche (the "duck blind" house in Paris) has some great stuff. Check out this project for a museum in Bangkok that would be covered in an ionized mesh that would pull pollution out of the sky and turn the building into a giant fuzzball:
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
hyggeligt has obviously seen some stranger willies than i have.
― jed_, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
― jed_, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
"The structure was set on fire by stray fireworks fired by revellers celebrating Chinese New Year."
i feel bad about it but i had to stifle a laugh when i read this sentence.
― jed_, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
They were either quite some fireworks or the building was not up to code...
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
well, the building wasn't finished and anyway who knows what chinese building codes are like or if they even have any.
― jed_, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
Rem has never been known for his build quality.
― jed_, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink