it looks like an office building that got drunk at the christmas party and is trying to do a mean impression of Torre Agbar because it's jealous.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
it looks like a red plastercast
― stimulus package (cozwn), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
cozwn: http://www.spaceinvading.com/index/page/9
I DIED - i'm guessing that ice-cold bar thing upthread that you hated so much has been usurped as an unfavourite?
― jed_, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Botta = missed his chance I think - last ten years have not been sympathetic to this kind of stuff
Ban = agreed, total lock
Diller & Scofidio = after a few more buildings, yeah
Maki = already got one
Calatrava = oh god please no
Predock = plausible but not adding much
Morphosis = Thom Mayne, already got one
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
nope! I think my intense hatred of that wine bar is based on the fact that I do a lot of bar/restaurant/nightclub design, so I know damn well I can do and have done better than that. When I look at even the ugliest 30 story building I think "well, it got built, it's standing up and it's probably waterproof, got me beat".
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I agree that Holl is almost certainly getting a Pritzker in the next few years.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"well, it got built, it's standing up and it's probably waterproof, got me beat".
qft.
― jed_, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
When I look at even the ugliest 30 story building I think "well, it got built, it's standing up and it's probably waterproof, got me beat".
I really should print this out and pin it up at my desk as a reminder to be humble..
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
c'mon, it's not like he did it himself.
― jed_, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
can someone explain all the massive ooohing and aaahing that goes on whenever someone builds a catilevered stair? sometimes it seems like the only reason a design gets any attention. it doesn't always look bad, sometimes the more blocky ones look very good but when i see something like this
http://materialicious.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/17/samalot_4.jpg
i find it not only unsafe-seeming but actually fairly ugly too. also i kind of wonder to what end the trick is being performed in the first place. it just seems so one-note and joyless to me.
― jed_, Friday, 17 April 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
oops - like this:
http://www.stairporn.org/images/2008/08/17/samalot_4.jpg
― jed_, Friday, 17 April 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
OOOOH:
http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/650127592_em2n-022-lie-070720-047023-cg-0720-047035-hannes-henz.jpg
http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/1961022048_em2n-022-lie-070720-046546-cg-0720-04655830-hannes-henz.jpg
― jed_, Friday, 17 April 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
incredible
― jed_, Friday, 17 April 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
omg
http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/30040912411331892017396872_selgascanooffice2381.jpghttp://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/30040912411331901035034548_selgascanooffice2507.jpghttp://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/3004091241133192339777624_selgascanooffice2885.jpg
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 (fourteen years ago) link
!!!!
― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
just imagine... working there!
― jed_, Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.archdaily.com/21049/selgas-cano-architecture-office-by-iwan-baan/
― jed_, Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
So, I been a-travelin' again. As always, continuing coverage at my Flickr, and links below take you to lengthy babble by me...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3491589926_62d4dea3d4.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3304/3491547738_b1e76c3630.jpg
Future Systems - Metropolis Tower
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3495061524_bc508c3ea3.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3494992794_8e30934402.jpg
PLOT (now BIG and JDS) - VM-Husene
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
(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 (fourteen years ago) link
love this! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/3494169041_a1f622eb9f.jpg?v=0p9
― jed_, Sunday, 3 May 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, and
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3514820228_03f34d05f5.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3514982637_679d55fa30.jpg
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 (fourteen years ago) link
(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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
result!
― jed_, Monday, 11 May 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe they have a starsonist
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
agh thats killing me about hadid's
― (b)admin (roxymuzak), Friday, 15 May 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, good laugh.
― jed_, Saturday, 16 May 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Wrapping up my recent trip, here's two AWESOME churches in/near Copenhagen...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2108/3542480664_26cd66a0a8.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/3541688721_e6e267b1ab.jpg
Jørn Utzon, Bagsværd Community Church, 1968-1976
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3538731797_f0f44e3b87.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2443/3538927007_b1617ff9c4.jpg
Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, Grundtvig's Church, 1913-1940
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
waht?
http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/andrea/neto04.jpghttp://www.designboom.com/cms/images/andrea/neto09.jpg
― jed_, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
They are filled with spices and stuff. Very fun.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3404/3597899338_e037d6f2db.jpg
― ned trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 5 June 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
VG
― jed_, Friday, 5 June 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
woah good luck!
what are u calling it?
― jed_, Sunday, 21 June 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, well done and good luck. Let us see the results!
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 21 June 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img36.picoodle.com/img/img36/2/6/21/brianm/f_EDITm_e12afd4.jpg
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, I DIED, good luck! That's really exciting.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Can anyone identify this building?
http://butdoesitfloat.com/media/39141/11_o.jpg
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 26 June 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^No-one? I searched around but there are a surprising number of buildings with that colour glass.
Meanwhile...here's some nice prefabs...http://www.marmolradzinerprefab.com/images/new_landing.jpg
By Marmol Radziner - see more/ read more here.
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 July 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link