Architecture

Lisnaholic · 12-02-2017, 06:13 AM

^ This is an absolutely fabulous display of how high-density housing can be visually exciting too. A bit of imagination and the architects have created a very intriguing landscape from simple elements and easy-to-understand principles.

Bits to love about this design:-
i) the blocks stacked on each other feel "right", just as they would to a kid of five.
ii) the proportions of each individual block are satisfying; they are like ghetto blasters on display in a shop window.
iii) in picture #1 you can see between the blocks to the trees beyond.
iv) the little bits of roof terrace in picture #2, and the big, bold plinth that allows one block to oversail the swimming pool.
v) the plan of the site, which shows how a few straight lines, put together right, will turn into a circle.

I like The Interlace so much more than the kind of bizarre geometry that Frank Gehry has made fashionable. His approach seems to be, "We have the technology so let's do it, even if there's no clear structural reason for it."

I'm sure in its way The Bilboa Museum is impressive to see, but all that shiny metal and the weird angles kind of puts me on edge. It reminds me too much of metal off-cuts, which we instinctively avoid touching:-

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~~Cuthbert~~ · 12-02-2017, 06:29 AM

Yeah that is smart.

Plankton · 12-07-2017, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I'm sure in its way The Bilboa Museum is impressive to see, but all that shiny metal and the weird angles kind of puts me on edge. It reminds me too much of metal off-cuts, which we instinctively avoid touching:-

All I have to do is walk into the fab shop (here at work) and I instantly start bleeding. Kidding of course, but yeah, that's a heightened instinct when you work with steel. I see exactly what you mean with the Bilboa. It never really occurred to me.

Lisnaholic · 12-08-2017, 04:32 PM

^ HaHa! Yes, I think anyone who comes near that stuff is very careful!
I wonder if the word "swarf" ever made it across the Atlantic? Somehow, I suspect not; even in England it didn't make it out of the factories up north afaik.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-21-2018, 03:03 PM

The Semperoper in Dresden, Germany.

School of Art & Science in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK:

Love these.

Been following a development here for a while that I was planning on posting when it neared completion, but with the collapse of Carillian I don't know what is happening with it now. I was really excited about it.

**Frownland** · 01-21-2018, 07:26 PM

Chiomara · 01-22-2018, 03:56 PM

This was a very cathartic read: Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture

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This idea, that architecture should try to be “honest” rather than “beautiful,” is well expressed in an infamously heated 1982 debate at the Harvard School of Design between two architects, Peter Eisenman and Christopher Alexander. Eisenman is a well-known “starchitect” whose projects are inspired by the deconstructive philosophy of Jacques Derrida, and whose forms are intentionally chaotic and grating. Eisenman took his duty to create “disharmony” seriously: one Eisenman-designed house so departed from the normal concept of a house that its owners actually wrote an entire book about the difficulties they experienced trying to live in it. For example, Eisenman split the master bedroom in two so the couple could not sleep together, installed a precarious staircase without a handrail, and initially refused to include bathrooms. In his violent opposition to the very idea that a real human being might actually attempt to live (and crap, and have sex) in one of his houses, Eisenman recalls the self-important German architect from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall, who becomes exasperated the need to include a staircase between floors: “Why can’t the creatures stay in one place? The problem of architecture is the problem of all art: the elimination of the human element from the consideration of form. The only perfect building must be the factory, because that is built to house machines, not men.”

Alexander, by contrast, is one of the few major figures in architecture who believes that an objective standard of beauty is an important value for the profession; his buildings, which are often small-scale projects like gardens or schoolyards or homes, attempt to be warm and comfortable, and often employ traditional—what he calls “timeless”—design practices. In the debate, Alexander lambasted Eisenman for wanting buildings that are “prickly and strange,” and defended a conception of architecture that prioritizes human feeling and emotion. Eisenman, evidently trying his damnedest to behave like a cartoon parody of a pretentious artist, declared that he found the Chartres cathedral too boring to visit even once: “in fact,” he stated, “I have gone to Chartres a number of times to eat in the restaurant across the street — had a 1934 red Mersault wine, which was exquisite — I never went into the cathedral. The cathedral was done en passant. Once you’ve seen one Gothic cathedral, you have seen them all.” Alexander replied: “I find that incomprehensible. I find it very irresponsible. I find it nutty. I feel sorry for the man. I also feel incredibly angry because he is ****ing up the world.”

Chiomara · 01-22-2018, 05:14 PM

The Shah Cheragh in Shiraz:

Just imagine lying down in here at night while listening Tim Hecker's Virgins. I would die.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-22-2018, 05:26 PM

I approve.

Chiomara · 01-22-2018, 06:06 PM

Best cabins to get murdered in scored on a scale of 1-10:

9/10. Unnerving. Makes me think of a dental office in the underworld. David Lynch lives here.

A good traditional folk tale style murder spot. 9/10.

10/10. Inexplicably unsettling. If I saw this building in a dream I would run as far away as possible.

3/10. Boring. Looks like an abandoned forest condo that Gwenyth Paltrow might have rented when harvesting quail eggs for her $18,000 elixir of youth supplements or whatever it is she does.

12-08-2017, 04:32 PM	#104 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ HaHa! Yes, I think anyone who comes near that stuff is very careful! I wonder if the word "swarf" ever made it across the Atlantic? Somehow, I suspect not; even in England it didn't make it out of the factories up north afaik. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

01-21-2018, 07:26 PM	#106 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	__________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-22-2018, 05:14 PM	#108 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	The Shah Cheragh in Shiraz: Just imagine lying down in here at night while listening Tim Hecker's Virgins. I would die. __________________ Χρυσοσανδαλαιμοποτιχθονία Tumblr - 8tracks - Spotify

01-22-2018, 06:06 PM	#110 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	Best cabins to get murdered in scored on a scale of 1-10: 9/10. Unnerving. Makes me think of a dental office in the underworld. David Lynch lives here. A good traditional folk tale style murder spot. 9/10. 10/10. Inexplicably unsettling. If I saw this building in a dream I would run as far away as possible. 3/10. Boring. Looks like an abandoned forest condo that Gwenyth Paltrow might have rented when harvesting quail eggs for her $18,000 elixir of youth supplements or whatever it is she does. __________________ Χρυσοσανδαλαιμοποτιχθονία Tumblr - 8tracks - Spotify

12-02-2017, 06:29 AM	#102 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Yeah that is smart.

01-21-2018, 03:03 PM	#105 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	The Semperoper in Dresden, Germany. School of Art & Science in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Love these. Been following a development here for a while that I was planning on posting when it neared completion, but with the collapse of Carillian I don't know what is happening with it now. I was really excited about it.

01-22-2018, 05:26 PM	#109 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	I approve.