― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
?
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago) link
The solution is not pink paint but light-emitting concrete.
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago) link
and do you mean Emley mast Ed? Ilkeston is at the bottom of a valley near Derby? If so yeah, right on the tops above Bradford? dominates the skyline for miles and miles - fantastic stuff
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
http://mimezine.com/~uhtu/2003.08/lr_marina_city.jpg
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago) link
The biggest problem an architect faces with concrete seems to be rain stains - remember the stuff was invented by peoples who didn't see as much rain as the rest of us.
A painter ex-neighbour of mine has just been rehoused in the Brunswick Centre, where he is in delirium about the light he is getting in his conservatory, which fills the flat with lovely sunshine. These are meant to be machines for living in, so I can forgive the hallways somewhat in the knowledge that nobody in the place suffers from SAD. However Pete is right, they ought to blanket-ban net curtains there - ruins the sightlines.
― suzy (suzy), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
Ronan Pointhttp://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/ronanpoint_lrg.jpg
Vs.
Roehampton estatehttp://www.geocities.com/simpsonneil/roehamp1_lrg.jpg
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
xpost
Oh go on, why not.
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://alantrewartha.20m.com/cattank-t.jpg
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, it is Marina City in Chicago and the building on the Wilco album - you should look up Bertrand Goldberg if you like it.
I'll ask the mods to take it down and use the link instead.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/archkit.jpg
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
tadao ando.
http://www46.tok2.com/home/arc/osaka/galleria_akka_01.jpg http://www.philau.edu/schools/add/ugradmajors/Architecture/BuildingTech/Images/KidosakiExt.jpg
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
salk institute:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/11.kahn.salk.ext3.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/12.kahn.salk.towers.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/10.kahn.salk.ext2.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/09.kahn.salk.ext.jpg
national assembly in dacca:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/19.kahn.dacca.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/20.kahn.dacca.1.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/23.kahn.dacca.light.int.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/23a.kahn2.dacca.int.jpg i http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/21.kahn.dacca.int.1.jpg http://falcon.jmu.edu/~tatewl/KAHN/22.kahn.dacca.int.2.jpg
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
http://society.guardian.co.uk/housing/story/0,7890,496657,00.html
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/metro/01/0109/21/hoover.jpg
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
bah.
― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
http://stlcin.missouri.org/images/devprojects/pulitzer-pp2.jpghttp://www.taschen.com/media/images/190/excerpts_arch_now_ii_14.jpg
http://www.pulitzerarts.org/architecture.htm
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
london zoo's penguin pool:
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/penguin/ppool.jpg http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/penguin/ppoolramps.jpg
highpoints:
http://housingprototypes.org/images/highpoint_01.jpg http://housingprototypes.org/images/images/highpoint_03.jpg
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― robster (robster), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
damn those fuxoring peasants
'However, the external decoration of the houses at Alton East irked the hardline Modernist faction in the London County Council's Architects' Department. The brightly coloured brickwork, painted window frames and wide bands of concrete at regular intervals on the exterior were all considered frivolous, and lacking any obvious function. However, the housing at Alton East has proved to be popular with residents.'
yeahyeahyeah but what do they know...
'The absence of frivolous detailing and the angular simplicity of the concrete frames signalled a return to basic Modernist principles.'
where did they get the idea that modernism wasn't some kind of aesthetic (= 'frivolous') in itself ?'functionality' <=> dressed-up aesthetic preferences
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 16 April 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link