10(+) architects I have been thinking about

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.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/chapel2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/chapel_1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/chapel3.jpg

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
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/inhabitable-furniture-by-h2o-architects-06-h2o_chatou_photo.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/inhabitable-furniture-by-h2o-architects-17-h2o_chatou_axo.jpg

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/flip13-h2o_chatou_section.jpg

this seems to be the exterior of the building:

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/inhabitable-furniture-by-h2o-architects15-h2o_chatou_existing.jpg

yes I love that h2o project!

Looks like it's got some head clearance issues at the stairwells and I think the plywood finish everywhere is going to wear in some really unattractive ways, but it's really great to see interiors projects that are designed three dimensionally rather than as a sequence of plans.

I DIED otm - I'm not wild about the choice of finishes, but that one 3D model/rendering of it really makes the sale. I admit to some curiousity about the "cave" in the section though...!

ha, i think cave is French for basement but i could be wrong.

but it's really great to see interiors projects that are designed three dimensionally rather than as a sequence of plans.

agreed, totally.

of course in the US, ADA does a great job of ensuring that projects stay really damn flat.

I DIED, i always wanted to ask you - were you called something else on old ILX?

I was Brian Miller - going back through this thread makes me realize I have been saying negative things about architecture for a long time!

ah right. i remember you but not for saying negative things.

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

OTM. Well done Tracer Hand's friend.

I love the H20 thing but would be worried about sink set in wood, leaks and damage spreading through the material. I know, way to rob it of the romance. Wonderful seeing entire space used though.

'Cave' also means wine cellar meaning that this teen would seriously be the luckiest S.O.B. in history!

Well done Peter Zumthor!

great!

although if you didn't know Zumthor's work then the photos accompanying that article would probably make you extremely confused about the award.

I do not know much Zumthor. Perhaps you might have a few good examples for the thread?

Can I point out that I think Zumthor is a deadly name and I for one would like him to rule over earth like a pointy bearded alien dictator.

More Herzog and de Meuron (with an Anish Kapoor blob sculpture to boot) @ 54 Leonard St NYC

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/03-woolworth-view-sq.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/06-lobby-view-008-sq.jpg

hyggeligt, it's always hard to dig out zumthor photos, you can never seem to find ones that really communicate the building well.

having said that upthread here:

10(+) architects I have been thinking about

and here:

10(+) architects I have been thinking about

are good photos

hyggeligt,i love the name Zumthor too.

TZUM-THORRRRR!!!!

i'll say no to the H&DeM just posted but i'd pretty much say no to all skyscrapers.

perhaps we should start a new thread?

i mightstart a temporary thread for the temporary structures at the venice biennale.

Keep it all here for maximum building pr0n effect!

I love those TZUM-THORRRRRs. What is it about the Swiss and light?

Has anyone been reading about that Star structure? A bit silly* I think.

I also do not like that skyscraper, I am worried that bits will fall off or it will fall over. I am also a bit underwhelmed by Kapoor in general. I say this because I am bitter that I didn't get to see him in the Turbine Hall.

*Prob not an adult word :p

Has anyone seen Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman yet?

Trailer here: http://aff.bside.com/2008/films/visualacousticsthemodernismofjuliusshulman_aff2008

i can barely believe this is real

http://yatzer.com/assets/Image/10.october08/duplicasa_by_J_MAYER_H_Architects_photos_by_david_franck/14.jpg
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Auguste Perret, Notre Dame du Raincy (1921-1922):

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2782273411_5485323502.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/2783133580_0e8006c144.jpg

Mecanoo, St. Mary of the Angels Chapel, 1998-2001

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/2885980223_d72155b9fd.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2885990597_d8f10458bd.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/2886829050_378b33c18b.jpg

And - for the truly hardcore - Herman Hertzberger, Delft Montessori School, 1960-1970

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/2888261680_f1dfdd6d3c.jpg
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Some more photos of the Dupli Casa posted by Jed upthread.
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture/Dupli-Casa-Remembers-its-Past/

And floor plans here
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=80137_0_23_0_C

Some people at archinect seem to doubt its existence!

I also doubt its existence! They are really beautiful images but none of them have a smoking "not a rendering" gun. There's a thumbnail I found on Google image search that seems to be the building under construction but it is teeeeeeeny. Perfectly willing to believe it's a work in progress though.

Tiny but convincing!

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Uz5X3enPZzCLHM:http://www.jmayerh.de/work/buildings/vmm/images/000.jpg

I thought the interior shots had to be real. Why go to the bother of having such realistic gardens in the background otherwise?

According to this it was completed last year.

Neutelings Riedijk, Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum, 1999-2006

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2957562090_a7f5a3c1b1.jpg
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good old hilversum

Has anyone seen Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman yet?

Trailer here: http://aff.bside.com/2008/films/visualacousticsthemodernismofjuliusshulman_aff2008

― caek, Saturday, October 4, 2008 8:53 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

... won best documentary feature at Austin

Ahh, what the hell, finish off the vacation:

Hans Hollein, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, 1983-1991

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1. Abalos and Herreros

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2363353389_c0616179ea.jpg?v=0

Public Library, Usera, 2003

2. Toyo Ito

http://architourist.pbwiki.com/f/tower-winds1.jpg

Tower of the Winds, Yokohama, 1986

During the day opaque, at night interior lights respond to wind and noise.

3. Philip Johnson

http://www.freewebs.com/charlotklinkhamer/philip_johnson_glass_house_new_canaan_connecticut.jpg

Glass House, New Canaan, 1949

4. Moshe Safdie

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/34/117234-004-8AEFACC5.jpg

Habitat, Montreal, 1967

5. Sauerbruch/Hutton

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/19066211_3d47b57a79.jpg?v=1159131889

GSW Building, Berlin, 2001

6. Ushida/Findlay

http://www.manggha.krakow.pl/architecture/Images/kf_02.jpg

Soft and Hairy House, Tsukuba, 1994

7. Williams/Tsien

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/1235914482_7158ad5335.jpg

Museum of American Folk Art, NYC, 2002

8. Maya Lin

http://www.obstanovka.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/langston_hughes_library.jpg

Langston Hughes Library, Clinton, TN, 1999

9. Atelier Hapsitus

http://ideiaforte.com.br/blog/media/1/20070623-the_cloud_4.jpg

The Cloud, Dubai, proposed

10. Diller/Scofidio

http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads2/2008/01/swiss_expo_2002_-diller_scofidio_architecture3.jpg

Blur Building, Swiss Expo, 2002

The Langston Hughes Library is very nice.

I would like to sit here:

http://adaptivereuse.net/wp-content/uploads/images/langston-hughes-library-haley-fam.jpg

Did everyone hear what happened to Farnsworth House : (

http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/news/

http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/news/wp-content/themes/defusion/img/fh_header.gif

This is not the first time...from the perspective of functionality and longevity it's a badly-sited building, smack in the middle of a flood plain. The current ownership seems very committed to protecting the building in the long term, so cross fingers...

Some stunners in there though:

We have, over the course of our five years managing this property, continually investigated solutions to the threat posed by the river. To that end, we begin this discussion with a list of previously proposed ideas:

1. Placement of a pontoons under the building
2. Longer column extensions that slide out of their footings
3. Szikorsky Helicopter to lift the 300 ton house
4. Hydraulic jacks to raise it in place
5. Building up the site flood plain by 12 ft.
6. Move the house to high ground
7. Retractable flood walls surrounding the house.
8. Waterproofing everything inside the house (vinyl upholstery, plastic laminate wood?)
9. Inflatable raft under the house
10. Internal sandbags around furniture and core
11. Dikes and dams
12. Moats
13. Fixed Moment Frame below the soil
14. Sandbags
15. Temporary flood walls
16. Reverse aquarium designed to rise out of the ground
17. Giant Zip lock bag
18. Steel waterproof shutters

Great selections from Roxy. The Safdie is a perennial delight - would really like to visit that sometime. Wish I could have seen ("seen") the Blur Building. According to one of my professors, the festival actually issued a commemorative chocolate bar of the building, which ordinarily would be fine, but it turns out rendering a foggy blur in chocolate produces something "that just looked like a big turd."

i saw a Julius Shulman photo exhibit a few years back that was very nice

what is the house you can barely believe is real, Doctor?

The "Dupli-casa" posted by Jed a bit upthread from there.

8. Waterproofing everything inside the house (vinyl upholstery, plastic laminate wood?)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

I still haven't sen the Shulman doc, which is bumming me out. Working on acquiring a screener.