Cool Modern Architecture [Archive] - Page 7

amor de cosmos

Oct 21, 2008, 4:28 AM

In today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding-recycling

The recently completed Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California makes beautiful use of glass, fly ash concrete, and certified wood, but is most notable for its stunning use of natural light:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/CathedralOakland-2812.jpg

Cellophane House is a five-story, prefabricated dwelling. Thin photovoltaic panels integrated into the walls of the house can produce enough electricity to run the building entirely off the grid:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/CellophaneHouseDC-3548.jpg

Dubai’s construction boom continues amid the world financial crisis. The Jumeira Gardens development is intended to establish it as a global city of the future. Although the controversial project will cost approximately $95bn (£55bn), the designers have emphasised its sustainable credentials:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/DubaiJumeiraGardensDC-3948.jpg

Le Project Triangle, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, will rise 200 metres from the Porte de Versailles in Paris. The skyscraper's orientation will be optimised to take advantage of both solar and wind power:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/HerzogSkyscraper-4321.jpg

Lifepods are constructed using the most advanced 21st-century technologies. Inspired by roaming mammals, the futuristic prefabs are designed as "quadrupedal fuselages" with footings that can adjust to the contours of their environs, rather than disfiguring the landscape to fit to the house:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/LifePodDC-4722.jpg

The Generali tower, due for completion in 2012, will incorporate an unprecedented level of environmental systems and features, representing the culmination of a modernisation campaign to make Paris's La Defénse district one of the most ecological business centres in Europe:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/ParisGreenGeneraliDC-5592.jpg

Jeremey Edmiston of System Architects and Douglas Gauthier of Gauthier Architect have developed a prefab construction of over a 1,000 pieces, laser cut in such a way as to minimise wasted material, then flat-packed and shipped to the site:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/PrefabBurstDC-5965.jpg

The Redondo beach house is constructed with a combination of prefabricated shipping containers and traditional buildings materials. The prefabricated nature of the containers allows 70% of construction to occur off site, greatly reducing construction waste:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/RedondoBeachHouseDC-6421.jpg

Currently due for construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower, sponsored by the National University of Singapore, will boast photovoltaic panels, natural ventilation, and a biogas generation plant all wrapped within an insulating living wall that covers half of its surface area:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/SingaporeEcologicalEDITTTower-6859.jpg
/\ this one's by far my favourite; the irregularity & green walls make it look like a moss-covered outcrop :worship:

Solaleya’s dome homes feature a 90% wood construction and are insulated with cork. The roofs feature sky-facing windows which suffuse interior spaces with light. An optional feature is a small mechanical structure in the base that allows the domes to rotate:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/UFOHomes-7290.jpg

fever

Oct 21, 2008, 4:36 AM

The church looks well done. Not sure about the podium, though.

There's too much going on with the living wall tower. Not bad

brickell

Oct 21, 2008, 2:11 PM

Solaleya’s dome homes feature a 90% wood construction and are insulated with cork. The roofs feature sky-facing windows which suffuse interior spaces with light. An optional feature is a small mechanical structure in the base that allows the domes to rotate:
http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/oct/16/greenbuilding/UFOHomes-7290.jpg

Isn't this the same basic geodesic dome home they've been building since the 70s? What am I missing?

CGII

Oct 21, 2008, 10:18 PM

Isn't this the same basic geodesic dome home they've been building since the 70s? What am I missing?

It's actually a step back; this is not a geodesic dome.

muppet

Oct 23, 2008, 4:54 PM

Jiefang Avenue Business Center, Wuhan

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/2008918208296527.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/2008918208256180.jpg

muppet

Oct 23, 2008, 4:58 PM

the Lloyd's Building by Richard Rogers, an oil refinery-esque piece of architecture for The City. Its inside-out, with all the elevators, service ducts and vents on the outside, and every screw itself individually designed:

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/london_08_29/london7.jpg

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8514/rojampv1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/rojampv1.jpg/1/w800.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img293/rojampv1.jpg/1/)

http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/T/j/lloyds.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/2415281248_8daac5e315.jpg?v=0

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9380/pantswh9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/pantswh9.jpg/1/w800.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img528/pantswh9.jpg/1/)

the exterior elevators and stairwells

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2286/2038361587_1262497b1b.jpg?v=0 http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/lloyds_lifts.jpg http://www.lloyds.com/NR/rdonlyres/CEF349C3-D1F0-4641-B8CD-5749D4948484/0/CR_hp_lift_view.jpg

The inside is just as industrial

http://www.architecture.com/HowWeBuiltBritain/Images/TwentiethCentury/CityRe-born/Lloyds%20Building%20interior_530x795.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/Goddard1000/18.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/Goddard1000/17.jpg http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/Goddard1000/16.jpg

but also surprising

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/244771739_70e84e2c7f.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/84/244756463_e7ab466641.jpg?v=0

all in all not bad for a building designed in the 1970s

If ever you go to London you HAVE to visit this place at night:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2014/2171236133_1dcc5597f1.jpg?v=0 http://www.peterstone.biz/Property_02/Property%20Large%20Jpegs/2770.jpg

Ilex

Oct 24, 2008, 3:41 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/chady/veranda/Alucon/8fe0b1a3c67cc95c6ae2f17681dfaccb.jpg
http://www.lunhu.com/uploadfile/house/uploadfile/200807/20080712041811609.jpgThese two towers are epic. My jaw dropped when I saw the second one.

Patrick

Oct 24, 2008, 4:23 AM

The Lloyd's Building is just so cool, I gotta see it in person.

Nowhereman1280

Oct 24, 2008, 5:00 AM

I love the Lloyds building.

Am I the only person in here who thinks 80% of the funky shaped "progressive" buildings in here are going to look like crap and be lambasted for poor design in 20 years?

Aleks

Oct 24, 2008, 5:01 AM

^Yes^

Jibba

Oct 24, 2008, 7:25 AM

^^I feel like a lot of these designs are just curvilinear derivatives of standard office towers that seem to use an awful lot of land relative to their usable area. Rather than experiment with how much one can torque and distort the shape until it reaches the limit of functionality, why not create something functionally maximal that engages its environment in a beneficial way? It's impossible to judge the functionality of a lot of these designs from just an exterior render, of course, but the furthest I get when trying to delineate the design aspects of some of these is "curvy and weird." And that's not because I'm an idiot (although I will admit that I have very limited formal training in architectural criticism). The Lloyd's building is certainly a breathtaking piece of architectural beauty, borne out of creative thinking about the functional aspects of the design. But as for the majority of the rest of the designs on this page, it suffices to say that their designs will not outlast the tastes that brought them about, at least for me.

muppet

Oct 24, 2008, 1:22 PM

These two towers are epic. My jaw dropped when I saw the second one.

Thats just a drop in what China's building at the moment, check out pages 17 and 18

Basically in 2005 Beijing had the equivalent of 3 Manhattans under construction, whilst Shanghai routinely builds more highrises than all the office space in NYC combined, every year. Both cities are struggling to house almost a million newcomers a year (Chongqing even more), as the worlds largest movement of humans in history plays out - 400 million people switching from rural to urban. Out of all that dross, there are some outstanding projects

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=145254&page=17
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=145254&page=18

Atomic Glee

Oct 24, 2008, 1:28 PM

Am I the only person in here who thinks 80% of the funky shaped "progressive" buildings in here are going to look like crap and be lambasted for poor design in 20 years?

No, you're not the only one. Of course, that opinion is expected from me, but even I can appreciate the occasional jot of quality contextual modernism that understands good urbanism. This stuff, though...yeesh.

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 3:43 PM

Jiefang Avenue Business Center, Wuhan

...no offense, but all this chinese stuff you always post is just a bunch of boring and tired iterations of the same thing... there is really nothing there more than generic glass skyscrapers. :shrug: all these vertical glass forms that are all struggling for their own unique expression of height are so exhausted. and while some of the projects in the east are really great, this eastern style of urbanism is something that i don't understand.

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 3:56 PM

Schemata Architecture Office
Tokyo_Japan
63.02° House

032　63.02°
completion // 12_2007
total area // 24.58m2
floor space // 71.40m2
63.02°, built in a densely residential area in Nakano, Tokyo, is a small building of a SOHO and an apartment for rent. The front road is really narrow, but the next apartment has a big open space between the road and the building. In order to this situation, the facade of 63.02° is inclined 63.02 degrees toward the front road, so that a wide and deep view is acquired. From the large windows that are opened on the inclined facade, you can see neighbor's cherry tree and the cityscape.

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/squarengat_004_p0005_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_002_p0002_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_003_n0004_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_004_p0005_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_005_p0006_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_007_mg_4924_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_008_mg_4901_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_015_mg_4720_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_042_mg_4970_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_031_mg_4708_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_048_p0009_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_049_n0010_l.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ngat_050_mg_4982_l.jpg
Project Website (http://www.sschemata.com/english/works/archives/01architecture/9680326302/)

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 4:13 PM

Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier Tekuto
Tokyo_Japan
Parabola House

Parabola
completion // 10_2007
total area // 134.85m2
floor space // 81.93m2
The site is located in a quiet residential area surrounded by nature. 6m in width and 27m in length, it is a long and narrow site, which has been constructed 3m above road-level so that on clear days, it enjoys views of Mount Fuji.

As the client’s family spends the most part of the day in the living room, this room has been situated on the top floor, which benefits from scenic views. In order to fully exploit the length of the site, a cantilever has been constructed on to the front of the building.

Minimal design and a parabolic ceiling on the top floor are the building’s distinctive features. Splashes of colour provide a contrast to the undulating white surroundings, giving rhythm to the space.

The flowing “three dimensional” ceiling, which dips and rises to varying levels of height, arouses contrasting feelings of “tension” and “release” and gives the room a sense of boundlessness.

Thus, even when observing the room from a fixed position, the fluctuating density invokes a sense of movement, which unconsciously guides the observer right through and beyond the room’s boundaries, as if following the flow of air, giving the impression of endless space.

It is normally the floor and the walls that delineate the boundaries of the interior space but in this case, it is the parabolic ceiling that defines its essence.

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/squareparabola03.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola01.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola02.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola03.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola13.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola04.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola05.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola06.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola07.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola14.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola08.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola09.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola10.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola12.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/parabola20.jpg
Project Website (http://www.tekuto.com/works/private/index1.html)

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 4:16 PM

these japanese houses are architectural porn! i could post hundreds of these... :slob:

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 4:31 PM

Kiyonobu Nakagame + Associates
Sendai_Miyagi_Japan
House in Sendai-Kasumi

Parabola
completion // 09_2007
total area // 522.31m2
floor space // 148.95m2
The house sits on the hill top that overlooks the city of Sendai, situated within the area called Yakiyama offering the magnificent views of cliffs that rise from the Hirose River running at the bottom. The site has elongated configuration in North/South direction, adjoined by existing houses at the both sides. The site planning was conceived in relation to the density of neighboring houses, consisted of the elongated volume placed along the site and the large garden accompanied to it. While the site descends towards the cliff side, on contrary the house volume is lifted up, creating the gap between them, in which the garden, the living room and even the marvelous view of Sendai integrate one another and further become a large unifying site as a whole.

In terms of HVAC, we contrived effective heating systems. Although Sendai is not fully a cold district, adequate heating devices were still necessary, considering the frequent strong north winds blowing up the hill. Hydronic Radiant Floor Heating was applied to the entire floor area in the large room on the 1st floor, furthermore, Hydronic Heating are also provided on the walls in each room, creating comfortable spaces with the radiant heats.

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/01.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/squarehillhouse7.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/05.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/03.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/04.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/08.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/12.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/06.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/09.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/10.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/14.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/13.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/16.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/17.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/18.jpg
Project Website (http://www.nakagame.com/works_en/works_sdi.html)

honte

Oct 24, 2008, 4:46 PM

^ Finally I see something new that I like here. Thanks for posting those.

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 4:55 PM

^ Finally I see something new that I like here. Thanks for posting those.

wait... my other 400 posts in this thread weren't good enough??? or is that a comment about the last few pages of *not-mine* posts? ;)

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 4:57 PM

btw, did you see page 1?
http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_images/architech_images/bertrand_goldberg/lake_shore_grand_1.jpg
it's your boyfriend... :cheers:

honte

Oct 24, 2008, 5:36 PM

wait... my other 400 posts in this thread weren't good enough??? or is that a comment about the last few pages of *not-mine* posts? ;)

Sorry, I had the words "recently posted" in there but I deleted them on accident.

Tell me about the Goldberg... I don't recognize the proposal off-hand. Was this the one over on Illinois or so?

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 5:53 PM

Sorry, I had the words "recently posted" in there but I deleted them on accident.

Tell me about the Goldberg... I don't recognize the proposal off-hand. Was this the one over on Illinois or so?

yeah... i think that is the 'Lakeshore Grand Apartments' proposal from the ??late 80s?? or at least that is what i read from saic's goldberg project list. :shrug:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000009/45610_194899.jpg

is there a book that compiles all of goldberg's work?

Tom Servo

Oct 24, 2008, 6:00 PM

btw, honte, you might like this... the funniest thing goldberg ever did:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000027/50656_264161.jpg
Jack-in-the-Box Restaurant 1967-68
:tup:

Jibba

Oct 24, 2008, 6:42 PM

Those houses are incredible. Particularly the second one; that roof shape provides for some incredible spaces.

Nowhereman1280

Oct 24, 2008, 7:22 PM

See now those houses I can dig, their odd shapes actually play a role in their functionality; shoving lots of house onto a tiny lot while maintaining light and views.

That Goldberg is awesome, if I ever make it as a developer I want to find some of the sweeter proposals that never got built and put them up as best as I can.

Cirrus

Oct 24, 2008, 9:33 PM

amor de cosmos

Oct 24, 2008, 10:02 PM

these japanese houses are architectural porn! i could post hundreds of these... :slob:

you got that right! :tup:

Nowhereman1280

Oct 24, 2008, 10:21 PM

this (http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_images/architech_images/bertrand_goldberg/lake_shore_grand_1.jpg)

That is actually progressive, its a Bertrand Goldberg who designed some very stunning departures from traditional architectural thinking. Look up his Marina City or River City designs and you will recognize it. Though apparently the above design is relatively late compared to Marina City.

dchan

Oct 24, 2008, 11:23 PM

Heinrich Mossdorf:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/wjcordier/tribune_mossdorf.jpg
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/tribune_mossdorf.jpg

This building is total win. I've never actually laughed out loud at a building before, but here it is.

What it really needed was another skyscraper of similar design, only with a cowboy and a gun on top.

Tom Servo

Oct 25, 2008, 12:28 AM

This building is total win. I've never actually laughed out loud at a building before, but here it is.

What it really needed was another skyscraper of similar design, only with a cowboy and a gun on top.

loos's was funnier... :cheers: have you seen it?

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/20th/tribune_loos.jpg

honte

Oct 25, 2008, 12:37 AM

^ But no one is completely sure if he was joking...

btw, honte, you might like this... the funniest thing goldberg ever did:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000027/50656_264161.jpg
Jack-in-the-Box Restaurant 1967-68
:tup:

That was actually built....

Tom Servo

Oct 25, 2008, 1:00 AM

I've only gone through about the first half of this thread, but I have to say that "cool" and "progressive" aren't the same thing. Neither neo-brutalist geometric sculpturalism nor glass curtain walls are the least bit progressive, unless "progressive" means "the exact same game we've been playing for about 50 years now". Many of the buildings posted in this thread are not the least bit progressive. If you like them, cool, fair enough (I like many of them too), just don't call the likes of this (http://www.stevenholl.com/media/files/390/E-5-WPROJECTHORIZONTAL.jpg), this (http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_images/architech_images/bertrand_goldberg/lake_shore_grand_1.jpg) or this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/cityq/Projects%20and%20developments/CCTVHeadquarters1x.jpg) progressive (unless they were proposed prior to 1960), 'cause they ain't.

This (http://www.studiogang.net/site/images/projects/d3_4.jpg) is progressive, no doubt about it. It's a totally new idea. It may not work; it may even be an awful idea, but it IS progressive. On the other hand, this (http://www.eikongraphia.com/images/dejavu/OMA_Residential_Complex_Singapore_2_S.jpg) is the same shlock we've been seeing for decades.

And for the record, architecture is NOT art. Buildings are not sculptures (except very rarely). Artists are merely concerned with beauty, while architects are concerned with making functional things beautiful. Architects are artisans. The difference is not semantic.

let me first start by say: HAHAHAHA... wow...

and who ever said architecture was art? i didn't.

and let me get this straight... the OMA [REM KOOLHAAS] is not progressive, rather, it is an office for reproducing old ideas? huh...
http://globalmoxie.com/bm~pix/cctv2~s600x600.jpg
did you read arup's journal on how advanced of a structure the CCTY headquarters building is? more importantly, in what way is this an exhausted form of architecture? it's breaking down the notion of what an office building is and how it functions... from KOOLHAAS:

CCTV will be one among many towers in Beijing's new Central Business District, all striving to be unique - all different expressions of verticality.

Skyscraper
The tragedy of the skyscraper is that it marks a place as significant, which it then occupies and exhausts with banality... This banality is twofold: in spite of their potential to be incubators of new cultures, programs, and ways of life, most towers accommodate merely routine activity, arranged according to predictable patterns. Formally, their expressions of verticality have proven to stunt the imagination: as verticality soars, creativity crashes.

Concept
Instead of competing in the hopeless race for ultimate height - dominance of the skyline can only be achieved for a short period of time, and soon another, even taller building will emerge - the project proposes an iconographic constellation of two high-rise structures that actively engage the city space: CCTV and TVCC.

CCTV combines administration and offices, news and broadcasting, program production and services - the entire process of TV-making - in a loop of interconnected activities. Two structures rise from a common production platform that is partly underground. Each has a different character: one is dedicated to broadcasting, the second to services, research and education; they join at the top to create a cantilevered penthouse for the management. A new icon is formed... not the predictable 2-dimensional tower 'soaring' skyward, but a truly 3-dimensional experience. The consolidation of the TV program in a single building allows each worker to be permanently aware of the nature of the work of his co-workers - a chain of interdependence that promotes solidarity rather than isolation, collaboration instead of opposition. The building itself contributes to the coherence of the organization.

While CCTV is a secured building for staff and technology, public visitors will be admitted to the 'loop', a dedicated path circulating through the building and connecting to all elements of the program and offering spectacular views across the multiple facades towards the CBD, Beijing, and the Forbidden City.

The Television Cultural Center (TVCC) is an open, inviting structure. It accommodates visitors and guests, and will be freely accessible to the public. On the ground floor, a continuous lobby provides access to the 1500-seat theater, a large ballroom, digital cinemas, recording studios and exhibition facilities. The building hosts the international broadcasting centre for the 2008 Olympic Games. The tower accommodates a five-star hotel; guests enter at a dedicated drop-off from the east of the building and ascend to the fifth floor housing the check-in as well as restaurants, lounges, and conference rooms. The hotel rooms are occupying both sides of the tower, forming a spectacular atrium above the landscape of public facilities.

On the block in the south-east, the Media Park is conceived as an extension of the proposed green axis of the CBD. It is open to the public for events and entertainment, and can be used for outdoor filming.

...i kind of think that your comments are beyond outlandish... and i kind of think it'd be futile to go any further...

Tom Servo

Oct 25, 2008, 1:05 AM

^ But no one is completely sure if he was joking...

of course he was joking... he was making a farce of the whole thing...

this is a pretty good book, if you don't already have it:
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Tribune-Tower-Competition-Skyscraper/dp/0226768007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224896696&sr=8-1

honte

Oct 25, 2008, 1:27 AM

^ There's been some debate about that.

In any case, there can be no debate that this is not helping your thread devoted to progressive architecture. ;)

staff

Oct 25, 2008, 11:57 AM

Aparently the VM Bjerget (Mountain Dwellings) here in Copenhagen was awarded the world's best new residential project at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, so I thought I'd post it in here.

http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/clientUpload/images/news/main/Housing%5FMountainDwellings%2Ejpg

http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/news-detail.cfm?newsId=33

Tom Servo

Oct 25, 2008, 6:19 PM

that looks sick! can you post some info and more pics? :cheers:

Ilex

Oct 25, 2008, 6:48 PM

that looks sick! can you post some info and more pics? :cheers:You really have a thing for cubist buildings don't you? Lol.

I agree that it looks cool.

staff

Oct 25, 2008, 6:50 PM

Adrian;

Check out the official website at http://www.vmbjerget.dk/ ! :)

(For pics, click "Billeder af VM Bjerget". "Området" = The area, "Bygningen" = the building, "Boligerne" = the apartments, "Andet" = Other).

Ilex

Oct 25, 2008, 6:56 PM

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the Duomo in Florence was progressive to say the least, as it really started the architectural renaissance. It was the first dome to not rely on the roof for support, so a scaffolding was not needed. The Duomo was the inspiration for other architectural masterpieces such as St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Cirrus

Oct 27, 2008, 7:48 PM

Koolhaas is a classic geometric sculpturalist. He works in the style made famous by Mies in the 1950s, over half a century ago. The only difference is that Koolhaas uses different shapes than Mies did. If you like Koolhass because you like geometric sculpturalism, that's fine, but it ain't new or different.

I will grant that Koolhaas does progressive things with engineering and structure, but not aesthetics. His aesthetic is as tired as my grandmother.

honte

Oct 27, 2008, 8:09 PM

^ The only thing Koolhaas has in common with Mies van der Rohe is that he destroyed a Mies building at IIT and had to be stopped from ruining another (although he still had the last laugh). That's the end of it.

vanman

Oct 27, 2008, 10:33 PM

these japanese houses are architectural porn! i could post hundreds of these... :slob:

I actually agree with you for once.

CGII

Oct 28, 2008, 2:15 PM

honte

Oct 28, 2008, 5:06 PM

^ Koolhaas is about intellectual mind games. Mies was about making good buildings.

Cirrus

Oct 28, 2008, 7:07 PM

Function was important to Meis, which is an undeniable part of his genius, but that doesn't preclude the fact that his buildings were artistic statements of sculpted cubist minimalism, set amidst a dichotomic context of heavy stone and ornament.

Koolhaas lacks Meis' functional genius, but he plays the same visual game. His buildings are artistic statements of sculpted anti-cubism, set amidst a dichotomic context of cubism. It's a later iteration of the same ploy - using geometric sculpture to parody the form of the majority of surrounding buildings. Fill in the blank: Artistic statements of sculpted ______, set amidst a dichotomic context of ______.

Again, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Visual landmarks need to be different from their surroundings somehow. But using a new combination of geometric shapes (or in the case of deconstructivism, the shape of shapelessness) to do it is not in any way a new idea.

CGII

Oct 28, 2008, 7:35 PM

Again, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

It is when you design a subway station in the form of an aluminium megaphone.

Mies' work was so rigidly geometric because of its strict functionality, the comparisons to Koolhaas are relevant when discussing their works' artistic/aesthetic value [which is quite unfair when evaluating a building]. I understand entirely what you mean (and perhaps you even agree with my tangent) I just don't like seeing Mies and Koolhaas juxtaposed to bring credibility to the latter.

Aleks

Oct 28, 2008, 7:40 PM

The Seattle Public Library is nice and has great function. Designed by Koolhaas. Imo, it depends on the work.

amor de cosmos

Oct 28, 2008, 9:06 PM

More info about that EDITT building in Singapore:

Ecological tower brings natural life back to urban site

Singapore’s 26 storey EDITT Tower, designed by architects T R Hamzah & Yeang, is being created to rehabilitate an urban, non-organic site, classified as ‘zero-culture’ where the natural ecosystem has been completely devastated. Besides meeting their client’s practical requirements for a tower for use as retail, exhibition and auditorium use, the design is very much an ecological design.

The unique feature of this scheme is the well-planted facades and vegetated terraces that surround the building. The design approach enables ecological succession to take place and to balance the existent inorganic nature of the site. The vegetation areas are designed to be continuous and to ramp upwards from the ground to the uppermost floor. Importantly the planting of the tower uses indigenous plants so as not to compete with the existing species of the locality.

The ramps are used to create a continuous spatial flow from street level to the floors of the city’s high rise towers and high-level bridge-linkages are added to connect to neighbouring buildings for greater urban-connectivity. The tower’s green credentials continue inside the tower with ecological features including water self-sufficiency through rainwater-collection and grey-water reuse at over 55% and the design optimises recovery and recycling of sewage waste through the creation of compost and bio-gas fuel. The EDITT tower will also achieve almost 40% energy self-sufficiency through a system of solar panels.

The EDITT Towers won the 1998 competition for Ecological Design in the Tropics and the building will be realized at the junction of Waterloo Road and Middle Road in Singapore.

Jo Livesey
Reporter
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10548

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Tom Servo

Oct 29, 2008, 6:30 AM

except for that goofy fin, that looks like a really great building

RLS_rls

Oct 29, 2008, 4:25 PM

^Agreed. The fin seems like a bit of an afterthought. But wouldn't a tower like this be more high-maintenance than most buildings?

StarScraperCity

Oct 30, 2008, 2:44 AM

except for that goofy fin, that looks like a really great building

Seems like every tower these days needs a spire of some sort. :shrug:

Tom Servo

Oct 30, 2008, 5:22 AM

Tate Modern extension redesigned:

from awesome to awesomer:

Herzog & de Meuron's design swaps glass for brick
In an unusual turn for today's architecture Herzog & de Meuron have swapped the glass of their 2006 Tate Modern extension design for bricks in their 2008 redesign. The redesign follows a revised brief after consultation with artists and curators. At the heart of the updated plans are the unique oil tanks of the former power station which will be retained as raw spaces for art and from which the new building will rise. The new brick exterior will blend with the existing exterior of the former power station.

The original design featured glass blocks that towered to form an obscure pyramid but these blocks are eradicated from the recently unveiled redesign and replaced by a perforated brick pyramidal structure comprising the tankers at the base of the structure.The revisions have been shaped by a desire to integrate the new building both with the existing building and the local environment. The oil tanks lead directly into the Turbine Hall and these interconnecting spaces will become the foundation of the new Tate Modern.

The revised building will also set new benchmarks for museums and galleries in the UK for both sustainability and energy use. By exploiting heat emitted from EDFE's relocated transformers and employing passive design principles wherever practicable the scheme will use 40% less energy, and 35% less carbon than building regulations demand.

The redevelopment has been funded to date with £50 million from Government, £7 million from the London Development Agency and £13 million from the private sector towards the overall costs. New planning permission will need to be sought but provided this is achieved the project is due for completion in 2012.

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10122_1_tate%20original1.jpg
the old

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5630TateModernExtension_pic1.jpg
the new

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com

Tom Servo

Oct 30, 2008, 6:25 AM

university faculty building [Universita Luigi Bocconi]
///named WORLD BUILDING OF THE YEAR at the WORLD ARCHITECTURAL FESTIVAL (http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/)///

http://www.graftonarchitects.ie/easyCMS/uploaded_files/228_52.jpg

grafton architects (http://www.graftonarchitects.ie/)

milan

2008

The building includes offices for 1,000 professors, 5 conference halls, lecture theatres, courtyards and concourses, all accessible to the public, with offices for teaching staff suspended above.

A Piece of City

We saw this brief as an opportunity for the Luigi Bocconi University to make a space at the scale of the city. To this end we have built at the scale of the site,80m x160m. Inside, our building is thought of as a large market hall or place of exchange. The Building’s hall acts as a filter between the city and the university.

A Window to Milan

The northern edge of the site fronts onto the artery of Viale Bligny, with the clatter of trams, the rush of busses, general traffic, people passing. It addresses the throbbing urban life of Milan, weaves into the mesh of the city. This frontage becomes the architectural opportunity to have a ‘window’ to Milan, a memorable image to confirm the important cultural contribution that the Bocconi University plays in the life of this city. For this reason, the public space of the aula magna occupies this frontage, asserting a symbolic presence and a register of the prestigious status of the University.

Social Lebensraum

The building is set back from the Viale Bligny & Via Roentgen edges to make a public space 18m x 90m inspired by the space forward of Hospital Maggiore.This new deep ‘finger’ of space reaches out to the city and beckons the visitor into the heart of the interior. This public space continues into the building, bringing with it it’s stone surface, the floor of the city.

Moving Skyward

In order to make this grand place of exchange we thought about the research offices as beams of space, suspended to form a grand canopy which filters light to all levels. The offices form an inhabited roofscape. This floating canopy allows the space of the city to overlap with the life of the university. Allows internal and external public spaces to merge.

The beehive world of the research is physically separate but always visually connected to the life of the lower levels

Undercroft

The underground accommodation is treated as an erupting landscape which offers support to the inhabited light filters above. Spatially this underground world is solid, dense and carved. We tried to establish a continuity between the ‘landscape’ of the city and the ‘made landscape’ of this undercroft.

Aula

The external wall to the sunken Aula Magna reaches the full height of the building with the upper level offices inhabiting it’s roofscape /attic. The full bulk and scale of this great room ‘the embedded boulder’ sits directly on the street edge and is the anchor for the totality of the building.

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Universita Luigi Bocconi (http://www.unibocconi.it/)

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Tom Servo

Oct 30, 2008, 7:19 AM

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/ Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
/ 2008
/ Basque Health Department Headquarters
/ Bilbao, Spain
/ 9,200SQ Meters
/ $17.9M Budget

The lot locates in the crossroad of the two most important streets of the Ensanche (1862) in Bilbao. The restrictive city zonning rules force to repeat the existing building tipology, reducing penthousing, chamfering corners and rising a tower. The building groups together vertical communications and general services within a bone, a prism next to the dividing wall that serves to seven open-plan floors for offices. Above these, there are two more level for institutional and representative uses. The meeting room are placed at the top of the building,into the tower. By the contrary, the Auditory and its services rooms are in the cellar. Under all of this level exist three more floors used just for employees parking.
A double façade solves not only zonning rules requirements but also energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic insulation ones. This duplicated plane is not just a wrapper but a volume between Bilbao and the inner space. This element allows to breath the building.
In the other hand, that folded element produces multiple views of the city, and changing its appearance depending on the point of view , the hour and the season. the objetive of this element in introduce the mutability, the dinamic spirit of the city.

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CGII

Oct 30, 2008, 12:13 PM

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10122_1_tate%20original1.jpg
the old

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5630TateModernExtension_pic1.jpg
the new

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com

Oh shit.

In all honesty, I hated the original design. The new one kicks ass.

GraniteStoneNY

Oct 30, 2008, 1:49 PM

that building is breathtaking. I was fortunate enough to visit it one time. The Medici Chapel in Florence is impressive as well.

staff

Oct 31, 2008, 5:04 PM

Steven Holl's new project at the Marmor Pier in Copenhagen,

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2988833697_d592381286.jpg (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2988833697_d592381286_b.jpg)

Click on the images for larger size.

amor de cosmos

Oct 31, 2008, 6:26 PM

Whale Beach house, Sydney, Australia
Black box house frames a modernist approach to a beachside dwelling.
This project articulates the idea of a modernist approach to the peninsula’s traditional concept of a beachside dwelling. From the street, the visual image is of a black box with blinkers either side to accommodate entry and stairs. The box provides the living space, while the protective sweep of the enveloping timber arms provides light, air circulation, ventilation and view corridors to the beach from the road, maintaining public amenity.

On entering the building, the visitor faces a large glass window with views through to the beach, flanked by a three storey high raw concrete wall. The building rises three storeys and the dramatic cantilever of the top two floors allows the mass of the building to appear as if hovering above the ground. This in turn provides shade for the pool and entertaining area on the ground floor.

The entire massing is clad in black recycled timber and forms a U shaped black structure to the street with a floating roof that allows views to the horizon.

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http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10564

Tom Servo

Oct 31, 2008, 7:09 PM

http://www.jmayerh.de/work/buildings/shs/images/000.jpg
http://www.jmayerh.de/work/buildings/shs/images/001.jpg

der hauptunterschied zwischen kunst und architektur liegt für mich eher im maßstab und der frage, wie schnell ich dinge realisieren kann

jürgen mayer h. architekten (http://www.jmayerh.de/home.htm) / stadt.haus

[stadthaus.scharnhauser park.und marktplatz]
[ostfildern.de.1999]
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[the building is located at the center of scharnhauser park]
[it is a multifunctional public building unifying municipal administration.civil services.a public library.an art gallery.classrooms.a wedding room.office space.sports facilities.and a large multi-purpose hall.this combination of different public services generates synergetic effects provoking programmatic and visual transparency.]
http://www.jmayerh.de/work/buildings/shs/images/002.jpg
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[spatially.the building is a large.open public area with inlays of certain core elements.floating within the space for mutual or strategic communication.these enclosed boxes structure the interior layout of the building.from the main square to the panorama deck on the roof.the building interlocks with its context through cutouts and terraces.these open air spaces remain accessible beyond the main opening hours and therefore serve as spatial and programmatic extensions.light and water animations are an integral part of the building and include a subtle relationship between nature.and technology.]
[the building.and square construct a new public building prototype by offering simultaneity of city life in real.mediated and virtual space.]
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/germany/jpgs/stadthaus_scharnhauser_park_jmayerh_10.jpg
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[framing the main entrance.visitors will have to walk through a computer animated.artificial rain dripping from the underneath the flat cantilevered roof.this water curtain facade becomes a secret information producer treating the entry elevation as ephemeral skin.]
[in the square next to the building.hanging glass fibre cables project points of light onto the ground.animated by the movement of the wind.built-in webcams collect all light points with a surveillance software.and send a life image of its dynamic constellation into the stadt.haus and onto the website of the.city of ostfildern.]
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Tom Servo

Oct 31, 2008, 7:11 PM

honte

Oct 31, 2008, 8:54 PM

^ Those fiber light standards are incredible.

Aleks

Oct 31, 2008, 11:52 PM

Oh my god! That house is amazing!

amor de cosmos

Nov 1, 2008, 1:10 AM

Blesso Loft, New York, United States
Joel Sanders completes eco-friendly NYC penthouse
This Noho loft for real estate developer Matthew Blesso offers a fresh take on green architecture, demonstrating that you don’t have to forgo high style in the interest of saving the planet.

Designed by New York architect Joel Sanders with associate architect Andrea Steele and landscape designer, Balmori Associates, the design of this 3200 sq ft loft is predicated on the notion that if you merge building and landscape, by bringing nature in and pushing living space to the outdoors, unexpected things can happen.

The loft’s interior is awash in lush vegetation, sustainable woods and natural fibers. Exterior wood decking and plants flow into the heart of the penthouse forming a “planted core” that separates the private and public realms. A glass wall separates the bathroom from the planted zone, allowing the owner to bathe surrounded by vegetation. This “living wall” links the interior to the roof. An open staircase provides access to a rooftop garden planted with grasses and sedum, which has been transformed into a veritable “living” room furnished with a mini-kitchen, a large movie screen, and an outdoor shower surrounded by lush vegetation.

Sharon McHugh
US Correspondent
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10577

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I'm pretty sure those coffee tables in the 3rd pic are made by a Vancouver designer :tup:
http://www.brentcomber.com/

Ayreonaut

Nov 1, 2008, 1:14 AM

I could probably live there. :yes:

amor de cosmos

Nov 2, 2008, 6:36 AM

If you like the Lloyd's Building, you'll LOVE LHC @ CERN! I've always thought of CERN as a big lab built by engineers & scientists, but I didn't make the connection between it & buildings like the Lloyd's Building or Pompidou Centre. Not many architects or interior designers could design anything like this! This is like the Lloyd's Building, but with even more Gothic details, just look for yourself! :slob:

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Will science and God collide as the countdown begins for world’s largest experiment?
Michael Hammond looks into how an experiment in Switzerland will affect your life...

It’s called the machine. Officially called the Large Haldron Colider (LHC) it is known by the many thousands of top scientists working at CERN in Geneva simply as the machine. It should be noted that emphasis is on the word “the” as the LHC is THE largest and most advanced machine ever built. Until now, this $8Bn experiment has been under most people’s radar but as the countdown to switch-on starts, focus is slowly being trained on the biggest scientific experiment ever carried by the human race. Sometime in August if all goes well, the LHC will accelerate two streams of protons around the 27KM long underground ring in opposite directions until they almost reach the speed of light. Then the guys at CERN will make them collide. The resultant impact is intended to re-create the conditions a billionth of a second after the big bang. The primary aim of the 20 year project is to prove the existence of the Higgs Bosun known by some as the God Particle, the basis for everything. In scientific terms, finding the Higgs particle is the key to proving the Standard Model, the current understanding of the universe. This would confirm the theory about how matter acquires mass.

With the unprecedented accumulation of human brain power at CERN it was almost inevitable that huge breakthroughs in technology would take place. It has parallels to a country at war, technology gets driven ahead at a much faster rate. Even before construction had begun, when the LHC was still on the drawing board, CERN had already made a huge impact on architecture and the process of communication generally. If it wasn’t for CERN, you wouldn’t be reading this at all as the Internet was a by-product of CERN research when a method of exchanging electronic data was developed in 1989 to enable the thousands of scientists from all around the world to collaborate. Internet technology was given free of charge to the global community by its creator, Tim Berners-Lee.

The collider and its collisions will feed four separate experiments, ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb and these will produce some 15 million gigabytes of data a year.

So what’s in this for architecture? The analysis of this vast amount of information requires a greater data transfer than the internet can provide. Enter the Grid. Imagine a freeway on stilts passing over the clogged up streets below allowing huge volumes of commercial traffic to traverse a city uninterrupted by traffic signals, roundabouts or other impairments. That’s the grid. A high capacity commercial network overlaid onto the Internet. The Grid already exists and is being used at CERN. This will be adopted by the wider community at some point as the Internet gets clogged up.

Next on the list is the Cloud. Imagine limitless processing power... renderings taking seconds and minutes instead of hours. The guys at Cern needed more processing power than any computer could provide and the concept of outsourcing “processing” to remote computer farms began to emerge. Sun Microsystems and IBM are already pioneering these facilities. Don’t forget, all of these technologies have been developed before the switch is thrown on the LHC. What could transpire if the experiments succeed? Literally anything is possible from weightless concrete to nano materials with properties that we cannot begin to imagine. On the other hand there is also the possibility that the experiment will create a black hole that will suck the earth into it. But the guys at CERN say their risk assessment shows this as unlikely. Fingers crossed.

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There are thousands more pics like those on the official site:
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Photos?ln=en
:worship:
Here's a sample (I don't know what they're pics of but they sure look cool):
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-lhc//lhc-pho-2002-015.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-lhc//lhc-pho-2001-125.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-lhc//lhc-pho-2002-014.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-lhc//lhc-pho-2001-069.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-lhc//lhc-pho-2001-033.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-lhc//lhc-pho-2001-005.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0808022/0808022_07/0808022_07-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0808022/0808022_10/0808022_10-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0808017/0808017_01/0808017_01-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2007/0709016/0709016_02/0709016_02-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2007/0706058/0706058_02/0706058_02-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2007/0710031/0710031_02/0710031_02-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0803031/0803031_03/0803031_03-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0802002/0802002_02/0802002_02-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0802001/0802001_02/0802001_02-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

http://mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchive/Photo/Public/2008/0802001/0802001_03/0802001_03-A4-at-144-dpi.jpg

SapphireBlueEyes

Nov 2, 2008, 8:05 AM

Prisons?

I know a little something about prisons. Living in an Architectural Mecca, like Chicago, I see Prisons every day--whenever my eyes accidentally gaze upon a Ludwig Meis Van Der Roe box. It's like looking at a vertical big box store, ugly as sin they are and as sterile as my toilet after I use my steam cleaner, tiny bubbles, and lysol on it. But at least there, sterility serves a good purpose.

--SapphireBlueEyes--

^How is that an example of progressive architecture??? Not only is it hideous and sterile, it completely ignores the street level on all sides. It looks like a prison.

SapphireBlueEyes

Nov 2, 2008, 8:16 AM

If you seriously like the second rendering, or the new design over the old one, you are one sick _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _!Oh shit.

In all honesty, I hated the original design. The new one kicks ass.

Ilex

Nov 2, 2008, 6:42 PM

armor de cosmos, was posting all those massive images really necessary? It would have been better to post about half, or put them as links. I don't like it when I have to wait about 40 seconds just for the page to load. And if I try to read while it's loading, the page is jumping all over the place from all the images popping up. Not to mention the pagestretch.

RLS_rls

Nov 2, 2008, 11:18 PM

Did anyone else notice the naked woman using the outside shower in the last pic that amor posted? Anybody?

Ayreonaut

Nov 2, 2008, 11:21 PM

I noticed that.

amor de cosmos

Nov 2, 2008, 11:26 PM

I'm always the first to notice a naked lady :P There's another one showering in one of the 'indoor' pics also.

but what about LHC? The Lloyd's Building is no match for its function-determined form, right? :cool:

RLS_rls

Nov 2, 2008, 11:37 PM

^Yes it looks very...comfortable.

CGII

Nov 3, 2008, 1:33 AM

Did anyone else notice the naked woman using the outside shower in the last pic that amor posted? Anybody?

Please don't be fuckin with me. I'm racking my brain trying to find it.

Tom Servo

Nov 3, 2008, 2:43 AM

she's taking a shower

staff

Nov 3, 2008, 2:27 PM

Another Copenhagen project, by MVRDV. It's called "Sky Village".

http://www.rk.dk/typo3temp/pics/5adf0a4083.jpg

http://www.rk.dk/typo3temp/pics/a3a1d4e7d2.jpg

http://www.rk.dk/typo3temp/pics/35f7e75111.jpg

http://www.rk.dk/typo3temp/pics/70822ca87a.jpg

http://www.rk.dk/typo3temp/pics/6471eacc07.jpg

http://www.rk.dk/typo3temp/pics/0e2dd0fddd.jpg

Atomic Glee

Nov 3, 2008, 3:01 PM

Because buildings that look like they might fall over on you = great urban design.

honte

Nov 3, 2008, 3:02 PM

^ In projects like this one, it's really the engineering that's interesting.... the architect's role is mostly just cooking up something to drive the engineers crazy. I don't see anything especially appealing about the design from an architectural sense, but I don't know the context or reason behind it. I could see something like this working very well, for instance, in downtown Chicago where there was a historic building underneath the cantilever.

Mostly though, I'm curious to see how the engineers handle tht one...

Atomic Glee

Nov 5, 2008, 12:01 AM

also, Atomic Glee, you do know that huge plazas in front of buildings in NOT a modernist invention... it actually comes out of the classical world, which i thought you loved?

The rendering you posted looks terrible and is exactly the kind of barren and uninviting open space beloved since the towers in the park took over.

And if you honestly can't tell the difference between plazas used in a traditional context and order and these modernist plazas, then I'm not sure what to say to convince you otherwise (not that I could do so even if I could find the words). Needless to say, there are a variety of differences between classic traditional plazas and these modernist ones (which have been pretty nice articulated by other posters).

amor de cosmos

Nov 6, 2008, 8:10 PM

Svalbard Science Centre
Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL
The major 8,500m2 addition to a university research building in Svalbard - located halfway between northern Norway and the North Pole where temperatures as low as -50°C are encountered - was designed by Norwegian architects Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL. An insulated copper-clad skin is wrapped around the complex spaces demanded by the brief, creating an outer shell adjusted to the flows of wind and snow passing through the site. Copper also forms a key part of the restrained palette of internal materials.
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10590

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/uploaded_files/10590_LUVATA385.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10590_1_LUVATA2.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10590_2_LUVATA3.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10590_3_LUVATA5.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10590_4_LUVATA6.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10590_5_LUVATA7.jpg

Jibba

Nov 6, 2008, 8:20 PM

I'm neither a structural engineer nor a materials scientist, but I do know that copper is quite a malleable metal; wouldn't using copper in such an extreme climate lead to serious warping and deformation? Or would this be preferable to something stronger that might prove brittle and prone to cracking? I guess that as long as it stays cold and there aren't severe variations in temperature then it would be alright.

At any rate, very neat structures, and those gorgeous, warm interiors belie both the exterior structure and the cold-ass environment outside.

honte

Nov 6, 2008, 10:47 PM

^^ Looks very Walter Netsch, including the interiors.

@ Jibba, your question is a complicated one. All metal expands and contracts with temperature change. Various metals do this to different extents. Other than change in temperature, corrosion can lead to volume change (in steel possibly quite severe - check out the untended window frames on Alumni Hall at IIT some day if you want to see the results of this), but since copper patinas, you wouldn't expect a lot of change from this cause.

Ultimately, the architect and the engineer need to put their heads together to design the cladding so that expansion can be addressed and incorporated into the structure. On a simple structure, these kinds of solutions manifest themselves as visible expansion joints. If the structure does not allow for movement, you will possibly see buckling in the metal.

If you develop a keen eye for these things, you can see many failed designs (bridges, buildings, etc) that have problems due to insufficient attention to these matters.

RLS_rls

Nov 7, 2008, 2:42 AM

^^That's awesome just don't stick your tongue on it.

amor de cosmos

Nov 7, 2008, 10:36 PM

another house in Japan

N-House, Owani, Aomori, Japan
A low budget house that explores the depth of space
Constructed on a deep plot of land in snowy Aomori prefecture, this low budget project has a deep plan. This allowed for an exploration of a particular feel of transparence by making the depth of the space optically measurable through the introduction of in-between zones to separate the main spaces and cut through the space in the cross direction. The house exhibits a spatial quality that allows the experience of several other spaces beyond, extending the overall limits of the space.

In the length from the entrance, one can see through the living room, dining room and the Japanese room into the garden behind the house. These in-between zones work as separators as well as connectors, and as part of the circulation accessing the functions in the service zone (North-side), such as the staircase to the second floor, the bathroom, storage and toilets.

This is not a house built out of separate rooms but of spaces with transition zones, made changeable with sliding doors. Construction from simple but raw materials cut to modules of a dimension system gives homogeneity to the spaces.

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/uploaded_files/10593_NEWNHouse.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10593_1_fra10.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10593_2_004b%20fra17.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10593_3_fra23.jpg
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10593

scalziand

Nov 8, 2008, 4:47 AM

As soon as I saw the Sky Village building, I knew it would end up in this thread.

The hand rails for the science center look like they would be perfect for radiators- and you would never have to touch a cold railing, either.

muppet

Nov 9, 2008, 12:26 PM

Another huge project by Suning in Nanjing, the Olympic Stadium tower. 400m.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/SuningOlympicPlaza.png

Click on '南京奥体苏宁广场':
http://www.suningestate.com/Sn_gd.aspx
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg64/z0rgggg/others/vyt07pjg.jpg

This is what skyscrapers should look like imo, part sculpture, part living space, part intervention.

I like how the horizontal ground level translates into the soaring skytower - that's a 'relationship' at work, and also reinforces the sense of height and scale, and accessibility for the pedestrian on the ground.

Tom Servo

Nov 9, 2008, 4:32 PM

hey guys... i'll get back to posting in a little bit... but friday night i got hit by a van:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=160602

:cheers: cheers all!

staff

Nov 9, 2008, 5:37 PM

Hope you're feeling better mate!

That Nanjing twister reminds me of a BIG proposal for the Scala site in Copenhagen's "metropole zone"

ltsmotorsport

Nov 10, 2008, 1:03 AM

Fine, I'll shorten it myself.

The last few projects (going to the last page) have been great, but Sky Village is just way out of scale with its surroundings.

Tom Servo

Nov 10, 2008, 3:42 PM

did you really have to quote all of that? :koko:

Cirrus

Nov 10, 2008, 5:05 PM

I edited it.

Anyway, this:

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10548_1_EDITTeyelevel.jpg

... is what this thread is all about. That is progressive on a whole different level than finding some new shape to sculpt.

And for the record, I like the fin. It gives an otherwise jumbled building some focus. Without the fin the building is too messy.

amor de cosmos

Nov 10, 2008, 6:01 PM

Here's a interview on CBC with Frank Gehry about the new Art Gallery of Ontario. I don't know if it can only be seen on Canadian computers or what:
http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/arts/frank_gehry_in_depth.html

amor de cosmos

Nov 12, 2008, 10:15 PM

Leaf House, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organic vibes connecting man with his environment
This project was inspired by Brazil's Indian architecture, perfectely suited for the hot and humid climate where it stands, Rio de Janeiro .The roof acts as a big leaf that protects from the hot sun all the enclosed spaces of the house, such as the verandas and the in-between open spaces. These last two types of space are the main social areas, the essence of the design. They allow trade winds from the sea to pass trough the building, providing natural ventilation and passive cooling.

The architects see this as low-tech ecoefficiency where it has the greatest impact; as the concept of the architectural design. Mareines +Patalano, in agreement with the client, understand the idea of a tropical beach house as a means of enhancing the interaction between man and nature, trying not to separate them completely.

There are no corridors and inside and outside are almost fused. Rain water is harvested from the roof for re-use. With its natural finishes, organic aesthetics and richness of details, the house is in harmony with the exuberant brazilian nature.
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10605

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/uploaded_files/10605_WAN-01-385pixels.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10605_1_WAN-02-1000pixels.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10605_2_WAN-03-1000pixels.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10605_3_WAN-04-1000pixels.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/10605_4_WAN-06-1000pixels.jpg

amor de cosmos

Nov 12, 2008, 10:37 PM

Sheppard Robson Fashions a Gem for London Skyline
November 12, 2008
By Dianna Dilworth

The million-dollar view to London’s House of Parliament and Westminster Bridge will soon include a jewel-like addition.

Sheppard Robson, based in London, is working with real estate investment firm Delancey to make way for a new 345,000-square-foot, 12-story building located in the South Bank neighborhood, near the Thames River. Named Westminster Place, which refers to its view of the famous Westminster borough across the river, the building resembles a cut gemstone. “Because it looks at the House of Parliament, we wanted to create a design that would be appropriate as a landmark for the skyline,” says David Ardill, design director at Sheppard Robson.

The circular building's facade comprises two layers of continuous glass. The inner layer is double-glazed and consists of a series of vertical bands, while the outer skin is supported by a crisscross pattern of dichroic glass fins. Structural steel columns shaped like prongs support the curtain wall, calling to mind a setting for a diamond engagement ring.

The original plan for this project was created by Kohn Pedersen Fox. By the time construction was set to begin, it did not meet new sustainability requirements established by the city. In the fall of 2007, Sheppard Robson was brought in to review the KPF scheme and to ensure it conformed to the new rules.

Sheppard Robson proposed the revamped design in September 2007, and city planners gave it the green light in June. Construction is slated to begin in February 2009.
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/081112london.asp

from Sheppard Robson's site
http://www.sheppardrobson.com/projects/page.cfm?projectID=100034
http://www.sheppardrobson.com/uploads/projects/Westminster-Place/image%20A.jpg

http://www.sheppardrobson.com/uploads/projects/Westminster-Place/H-preferred%20image.jpg

http://www.sheppardrobson.com/uploads/projects/Westminster-Place/filestore_f-up-atrium_331.jpg

http://www.sheppardrobson.com/uploads/projects/Westminster-Place/filestore_f-entrance_329.jpg

http://www.sheppardrobson.com/uploads/projects/Westminster-Place/filestore_f-meeting%20room_330.jpg