incredible
― jed_, Friday, 17 April 2009 11:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that stair is sexy as hell. The room, of course, is playing a big part in that - not so bad to be surrounded by a striated wall cove lit from top and bottom.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 17 April 2009 14:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
I would love a video compilation of the first time people with new badass cantilevered stairs in their house have to carry something heavy on them or try to navigate them while drunk.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Friday, 17 April 2009 14:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
omg
i'm in love again. and i can't rise above it. i'm in love again. and i love, love, love it.
― jed_, Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
!!!!
― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
just imagine... working there!
― jed_, Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://www.archdaily.com/21049/selgas-cano-architecture-office-by-iwan-baan/
― jed_, Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
So, I been a-travelin' again. As always, continuing coverage at my Flickr, and links below take you to lengthy babble by me...
Future Systems - Metropolis Tower
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
PLOT (now BIG and JDS) - VM-Husene
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
(More and better to come! A lot of this batch are kind of dingy and gray - Copenhagen weather turns on a dime, so I have tons of gorgeous photos of buildings I wasn't in love with, and then by the time I got to the real treats the clouds had swung overhead.)
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
love this!
― jed_, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ouroussoff brings the hammer down on the latest version of Calatrava's WTC transit hub:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/arts/design/11calatrava.html
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Sunday, 10 May 2009 23:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
God I loathe Calatrava, honestly, one of my least favorite architects. Instinctive challops to some degree, but also I just have never been stirred by the soaring poetry of big white strutty things. It just doesn't do anything for me, and it's always the same damn thing. That said, I wouldn't wish the WTC quagmire on my worst enemy - see the very accessible popular-press book Sixteen Acres for a painfully thorough discussion of that...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2009 03:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh, and
Sigurd Lewerentz, St. Petri Church in Klippan, 1962-1966
My exterior photos are mostly kind of cruddy, the light was coming and going and I'm still getting used to this camera. Seier and jmtp both have really nice ones though.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2009 03:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
(xpost) I'm the same way - with the complexity of the site and Calatrava's tendency toward simple solutions and poor grasp of circulation mechanics (hello Milwaukee!) it seems like the transportation hub would have been much better suited to an SOM or OMA.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 03:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
OMA would have been amazing - they stayed the fuck away from Ground Zero, though; the author of that book speculates that it's because Rem knew a no-win scenario when he saw one.
If the competition were happening now I suspect a few of the form/blob/"flows" types might be big enough names to take it on - FOA post-Yokohama for example, or UN Studio (inevitably with SOM or somebody else who really knows train stations). Might have still ended up a signature piece with too many cooks in the kitchen... but there is a whole school of architecture that has been trying to reckon with paths/vectors, motion in form, blah blah, it would have been an interesting moment for them. For better or worse. Instead, oh boy, another Calatrava building...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2009 03:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/2009/05/11/hadid-opera-house-burns/
lol china?
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 18:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
result!
― jed_, Monday, 11 May 2009 19:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
maybe they have a starsonist
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 19:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
agh thats killing me about hadid's
― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 May 2009 20:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, good laugh.
― jed_, Saturday, 16 May 2009 00:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Wrapping up my recent trip, here's two AWESOME churches in/near Copenhagen...
Jørn Utzon, Bagsværd Community Church, 1968-1976
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Grundtvig's Church, 1913-1940
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
Absolute musts if you're ever in CPH. Both are within ~5 minute walks of metro stops, maximum 15-20 minutes out of town on the metro. And they're gorgeous.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
waht?
― jed_, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
They are filled with spices and stuff. Very fun.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I have been thinking about Patrick Gywnne because I went on a tour around his house in at the weekend. A (quite big) bit of modernism in the Surrey suburbs.
― ned trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 5 June 2009 11:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
VG
― jed_, Friday, 5 June 2009 19:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
Quit my job. Starting my own firm. Full time bar/club/restaurant/retail design. It's about to get stressy!
― It's set in "Kazakhstan" not Kazakhstan. (I DIED), Sunday, 21 June 2009 18:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
woah good luck!
what are u calling it?
― jed_, Sunday, 21 June 2009 18:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, well done and good luck. Let us see the results!
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 21 June 2009 19:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Provisional, pending approval of my LLC registration.
I'm not licensed and I don't intend to be, so I'm labeling myself as a hospitality design consultant but it pretty much just means I'm not the one who stamps drawings (working w/ a friend for that). Got five projects underway and solid leads on another half dozen, all the numbers seem to make sense so far but we'll see how it goes. I've put in my notice and I've got another month at my current job while I get everything set up . It's going to be nice going from 200,000sf interior projects to 2,000sf ones.
― It's set in "Kazakhstan" not Kazakhstan. (I DIED), Sunday, 21 June 2009 21:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
it will be great working on a small team on a small project, more direct contact with clients. love the name. mine is called coh (my initials). or coh design i guess.
― jed_, Sunday, 21 June 2009 21:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow, I DIED, good luck! That's really exciting.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Can anyone identify this building?
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 26 June 2009 22:33 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years ago) Permalink
thanks!
― caek, Monday, 6 July 2009 13:05 (3 years 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 (3 years 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 (3 years ago) Permalink
looking forward to this (out in the fall, festivals first presumably): http://www.coastmodernfilm.com/
― caek, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Shed KM (for Urban Splash) - award winning housing.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 15:28 (3 years ago) Permalink