10(+) architects I have been thinking about

i got a bit carried away with this. there are a lot of buildings in recent years i prefer to this one but yes, it's great!

i'm off to Berlin again on wednesday. i may even see the Libeskind this time even though i loathe his work in the way the only someone who once loved his work (as a student) can. i did a 180!

i saw the crystal at the ROM in Toronto. one of the worst, maybe thee worst, building i have ever entered.

Incidentally, don't know if this has really circulated outside the architect school/blogger set, but, check out this video of a Romansch rap group called Liricas Analas, filmed entirely at the Zumthor baths in Vals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvM2KKDeGA Really captures the spirit of the place!!

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afgh, "concrete home"

very nice, would like to see more before i commit to buy.

Dr Casino, the Scharoun Philharmonic building went on fire in May. it seems the main hall has escaped the worst of the damage but the building is expected to be closed for an extremely long time. :-(

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3352629,00.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/20/world/20berlin-600.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44674000/jpg/_44674563_firefighters_ap466.jpg

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is in berlin

http://www.afgh.ch./bilder/vna/04.jpg

I love the herz de meu caixa forum btw

[edit: not in berlin, which I had read elsewhere, but in vnà, switzerland]

i'll take it! where did you find it?

the interior is incredible.

http://design-milk.com/concrete-home-switzerland-by-afgh/#comments

I love the envelope, not feeling the interior, so cold. Except for maybe the dining area but that's because of the windows, not the furniture.

The interior feels a bit too Spartan and, lord help me, Swiss!

I don't know where to put this lego model of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye but it seems too good not to draw attention to!

http://mocpages.com/user_images/10605/1213809820_DISPLAY.jpg

More here.

fantastic.

:-o

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i207/modernlover62/ALBUM%208/1-20.jpg
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Klein Bottle House by http://www.mcbridecharlesryan.com.au/core.html

Australian architecture is so hot right now.

I was reading about that house a while ago and had the woah hawt reaction. One thing that has become clearer to me now that I've had to do it: how the hell are you meant to paint these things!? So beautiful though.

everybody thought 2000s was going to be the blob but it was the facet

that's a nice way of putting it. i think blobitechture is the only area of modern design that's a total no-no for me so i'm quite thankful for that.

Love this thread! Of all the architects I've got the most love for Zumthor. His buildings could have been built yesterday or 1000 years ago. They look timeless.

museum castle freudenstein in Freiberg by AFF architekten

http://www.designboom.com/tools/WPro/images/08julyblogs03/castle01.jpg
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the middle image in the last post is a model of the volume inside the old building.

Haus 9×9, Stadtbergen, Bavaria, Germany by Titus Bernhard Architekten

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try again, sorry.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i207/modernlover62/ALBUM%202/ALBUM%203/ALBUM%205/ALBUM%206/4-9.jpg
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i've never seen a gabion wall used like this. a gabion roof too!

It's that time again, folks! As before, links are to my flickrblog babbling in pointless sophomoric detail about these things.

Miralles & Tagliabue - Cemetery in Igualada (1984-1994)
(speaking of gabion walls!)

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Jose Oubrerie (picking up from the unfinished work of Le Corbusier) - Eglise Saint-Pierre in Firminy (1960-2006)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/2746368473_1b06677aac.jpg

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i've never seen a gabion wall used like this. a gabion roof too!

jed, what about H&dM's Dominus Winery from 1997?

http://digilander.libero.it/mary.rag/winery.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/mary.rag/winery.jpg

Ah! I need to look at this thread when I am at work, and then I can look up these architects in my big database of architects! hurrah!

I went to the Dominique Perrault exhibition in the Centre Pompidou. It was interesting, I wasn't too sold on a lot of his stuff but there was some greatness especially his Bibliothèque Nationale de France but there were a fair few duds. When I finally upload holiday pics on to flickr I'll link to some of the models and things that I managed to get pictures of.

Also Dr Casino's flickrblog was great when he was in Europe. Highly recommend. Must look at updates now.

Thanks, Hyggeligt! Nice to hear about the Perrault exhibit - it was going on while we were in Paris, but the incredible group/student rate we swung for the building didn't apply to special exhibitions. As far as Perrault goes, for me, the Bibliotheque Nationale has a certain appeal but it's hard to get over the Hilberseimer quality of it. Last year we visited his would-be Olympic buildings in East Berlin and they were quite bleak.

This thread is like going through a pile of AR back issues. Which I've been doing, lot of crossover (such as the winery I DIED just posted). Anyway, interior shots of Berlin concrete/plywood house = jaw-dropping.

Don't worry about it, loved it. (xpost)

His olympic buildings did give off that impression. I think I got a good one of his pool & velodrome. Must check.

I am wondering: does anyone know of a good biography (i.e. for the layman) of Frederick Kiesler? I'm reading a biography of Peggy Guggenheim at the moment and would love to know more about Kiesler (the pictures I find of the gallery he made for her are fascinating. Ditto his furniture).

Also could I just state here that I am not a fan of the Centre Pompidou. I think it is ugly and dated. I am aware that I am coming off as ignorant and thick. So be it.

Dr Casino, how long have you been travelling in Europe? It seems over a year at this point!

Hahah, I wish! Two distinct five-week trips, run by the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State, in which I'm enrolled as a grad student. (I was a TA/chaperone on the more recent trip, which was added exhaustion but ultimately worth it.) Last year's trip was Germany, Prague, Vienna, northern Italy, Switzerland... this year ran from Barcelona through France to Belgium, the Netherlands, and a dash of West Germany. Scanning film takes forever so my blogging is maybe a week and a half into this year's trip...oof!

If I TA again next year it would be largely the same as last year's trip, although we're looking at a few changes to keep it interesting... mainly, adding a northern loop to Copenhagen and its environs. (This is, funnily enough, inspired by flickr - mainly the excellent photography and commentary by architectural Dane seier_seier_seier.) Any recommendations in Denmark or between there and Berlin? s_s_s has shared a ton of hot tips but we're all ears.

re: the Perrault velodrome & natatorium - the model was on display at the actual building when we were there and it was much easier to look at than the weedy, gray reality. My friend Evan has some photos of it starting here which tell the story pretty well. Granted, the weather was definitely not on Perrault's side that day!

I enjoyed Perrault's velodrome and its setting, but I think it had something to do with the context - Daft Punk show was really perfect in the space.

I was at that show! In June 2007? Was that really the same velodrome? It seemed a bit older/run down.

My goodness, it is the same place! I recognise that walkway thing. Madness. Great show though!

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/12/point-of-view-by-office-for-subversive-architecture/#more-16395

nice small-scale intervention - I'm happy to be seeing more small but smart efforts pop up and get attention rather than the the usual AR megabudget megaprojects.

what u guys think of this? my best friend designed it for El Dorado Architects. it's a unitarian sanctuary in kansas city.

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Looks good - have they done a professional photoshoot for it yet? Best money an architect can spend.

That was just my bud takin some photos on the site. Their other stuff is up here:

http://www.eldoradoarchitects.com/

i really like it. he should be very proud of it.

jed, what about H&dM's Dominus Winery from 1997?

i thought of it straight away but i was thinking of the domestic scale of the project plus the fact i've never seen it used as a pitch. i love the continuous walls-pitch gabion.

meanwhile i really love this: h2o architects designed this separate dwelling for a teenager in an outbuilding in the garden of a paris house. (presumably the kid in the pictures is not the lucky "teenager" in question!

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/inhabitable-furniture-by-h2o-architects-02-h2o_chatou_photo.jpg
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