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Re: Architecture

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:07 am
by Typhoon
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Wright was a famous early F*head. Fallingwater was so loud the owner couldn't live in it. Wright's stool designed for the receptionist at the Johnson Wax building was so stylish the receptionist kept falling over. People still must stand at a weird angle to view works in the screwy part of the Guggenheim.
Well, his Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was knocked down to make way . . .

Still, I'm partial to many of the concepts espoused by the Prairie School back in a time when most people of means were building faux castles,
the forerunners of today's McMansions.

I don't know if it has always been the case, but there now seems to a set of celebrity architects that can do no wrong:
Hadid, LIebskind, Gehry, Starck [creator of the infamous Golden Turd of Tokyo],

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and a few others.

Just as it was once true that "no one gets fired for buying IBM", it now seems that in architecture no selection committee is ever fired
for choosing one of the celebchitect submissions to a competition.

However, the committee who chose Hadid's design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium should be fired:

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When I first saw the presentation, the first thought that came to mind was US$ 1 billion for Godzilla's bicycle helmet?

Re: Architecture

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:00 am
by Heracleum Persicum

Re: Architecture

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:57 pm
by Typhoon

Re: Architecture

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:32 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
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Re: Architecture

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 1:02 am
by Typhoon
Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


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I was going to post this remarkable house with swiveling rooms, but I seen that you have already done so.

Re: Architecture

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2014 7:18 pm
by Typhoon

Re: Architecture

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:51 am
by Hoosiernorm
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Re: Architecture

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:34 am
by Endovelico
Hoosiernorm wrote:veNf-bz99cI
I keep dreaming of having cities built "underground", leaving the above ground for recreation and food production. Will the Chinese dig as fast as they build up?...

Re: Architecture

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:01 am
by noddy
Typhoon wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


all at the push of a button


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I was going to post this remarkable house with swiveling rooms, but I seen that you have already done so.
it doesnt make sense to me, why wouldnt you just build it permantly folded out ?

thats a whole bunch of expensive machinary to maintain for dubious benefit.

Re: Architecture

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:03 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
Amazing chapel. Follow the link to see the other views.

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http://gorillafeed.com/this-church-in-b ... -designed/

Re: Architecture

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:04 pm
by Heracleum Persicum

China plans amethyst crystal hotel

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:25 pm
by Nonc Hilaire

Re: Architecture

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 7:19 pm
by Heracleum Persicum
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Re: Architecture

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:53 pm
by YMix
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Re: Architecture

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:03 am
by noddy
https://shanghai.ist/2018/09/24/penis-b ... fireworks/
According to the Nanning Daily, the building is called Guangxi New Media Center and was finished in August after nearly two years of construction. Although its appearance has garnered widespread mockery, local media explained that the original intent behind the building was to model it after the familiarity of the terraced landscape dominant in Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces. While the architect may have had these southern sloped farming planes in mind, well, just tell us what you see:
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Re: Architecture

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:08 pm
by Parodite

Re: Architecture

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:27 pm
by Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
noddy wrote:feZkBT_A-ec
Sometimes the best thing you should do when you're caught out on such an expensive and highly public venture is to double down.....'>........

Re: Architecture

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:02 pm
by Parodite
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Re: Architecture

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 9:47 pm
by Typhoon

Re: Architecture

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:44 am
by Typhoon

Re: Architecture

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:33 am
by Simple Minded
thanks for posting. where is Howard Roark and his dynamite when we need them?

https://americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeec ... nhead.html

Re: Architecture

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:03 am
by Typhoon
Simple Minded wrote:
thanks for posting. where is Howard Roark and his dynamite when we need them?

https://americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeec ... nhead.html
Greatly enjoyed the book, the views espoused were so different, so foreign to me, but I found the film unintentionally funny.

On the other hand, I could not finish the book Atlas Shrugged.

Re: Architecture

Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:44 am
by Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
CRIMES IN CONCRETE
In a recent debate in Prospect magazine on the question of whether modern architecture has ruined British towns and cities, Professor James Stevens Curl, one of Britain’s most ­distinguished architectural historians, wrote as his opening salvo:

Visitors to these islands who have eyes to see will observe that there is hardly a town or city that has not had its streets—and skyline—wrecked by insensitive, crude, post-1945 additions which ignore established geometries, ­urban grain, scale, materials, and ­emphases.

This is so self-evidently true that I find it hard to understand how anyone could deny it, but modern architects and hangers-on such as architectural journalists do deny it, like war criminals who, for ­obvious reasons, continue to deny their crimes in the face of overwhelming evidence.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/201 ... n-concrete

Re: Architecture

Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:11 am
by Simple Minded
Colonel Sun wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
thanks for posting. where is Howard Roark and his dynamite when we need them?

https://americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeec ... nhead.html
Greatly enjoyed the book, the views espoused were so different, so foreign to me, but I found the film unintentionally funny.

On the other hand, I could not finish the book Atlas Shrugged.
I understand completely. I think Rand, like most humans who achieve celebrity, got just a bit too impressed with herself, and too verbose. IIRC, John Galt's court room speech lasted 75 pages in the book. Overall I think the Fountainhead was better. Her concepts don't transfer well to the big screen.

One of the most interesting aspects IMSMO, of Rand, is how the interpretation of her is dependent on the zeitgeist. She is either revered or reviled by the contemporary advant guards of intellectual fashion. Very few can meet the job requirements of both god and devil. Which I think say more about humans in general than it does about her work as an author/philosopher.

Re: Architecture

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:31 am
by Typhoon
Curr Aff | Why you hate contemporary architecture
And if you don’t, why you should…
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