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amor de cosmos Jun 24, 2009 10:08 PM

utilitarian buildings designed by famous architects
 
I don't think wright is known for his gas station design:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1031/...dfbee079_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock_ch...ku/1419529090/

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1173/...aa8b6580_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock_ch..._ku/793801913/

& I don't think Mies is either:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/...dbffe72c_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomfougere/2910840110

wright also designed a warehouse:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/80...62d931b7_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ftzgene/80638294/

Tom Servo Jun 25, 2009 5:52 AM

utilitarian? isn't that what modernism is characterized by?

http://www.uoregon.edu/~klio/im/weim...%20Gropius.jpg
Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...er_Behrens.jpg
Peter Behrens

Pavlov Jun 25, 2009 7:40 AM

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Originally Posted by amor de cosmos (Post 4324179)

This Mies gas station is tight btw. I love it.

Bedhead Jun 25, 2009 1:21 PM

In 1966, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster designed the Reliance Controls Factory in Swindon, which some consider to be the first High Tech building in the UK.

Unfortunately, images like this are all that remain, because it was flattened to make way for a branch of PC World in 1991

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.o.../BB96_8551.jpg
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.o...aspx?uid=16320
S Barker, English Heritage

Teakwood Jun 25, 2009 1:24 PM

Yeah, the Mies is great. I'm also amazed by the amount of ornamentation on that FLW building.

Bedhead Jun 26, 2009 8:10 AM

Edwin Lutyens, planner of New Delhi, designer of war monuments and Britain's greatest architect of the early 20th century also designed these tea rooms and public loos in Runnymeade, near London.

Very nice they are, too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ns-tearoom.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...ns-tearoom.jpg
Wyrdlight, Wikipedia

LMich Jun 26, 2009 9:17 AM

Do they have to be by 'famous' architects? Anyway, Edwyn A. Bowd & O.J. Munson of Bowd & Munson were locally famous architects that designed quite a few of my region's utilitarian buildings:

Ottawa Street Power Station

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/...545bfe.jpg?v=0
jfdupuis

Dye Water Conditioning Plant

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/3...02795b.jpg?v=0
DRxAndy

Rico Rommheim Jun 26, 2009 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bedhead (Post 4327265)
Edwin Lutyens, planner of New Delhi, designer of war monuments and Britain's greatest architect of the early 20th century also designed these tea rooms and public loos in Runnymeade, near London.

Very nice they are, too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ns-tearoom.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...ns-tearoom.jpg
Wyrdlight, Wikipedia

That one is great! They all are! And the mies gas station is quite famous but i have yet to go out and see it.

Rico Rommheim Jun 26, 2009 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim (Post 4327296)
That one is great! They all are! And the mies gas station is quite famous but i have yet to go out and see it.

and the mies gas station on nun's island is no longer a gas station, esso dismantled the pumps in january. Its now boarded up but its going to become a heritage building i believe.

amor de cosmos Jun 26, 2009 6:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AdrianXSands (Post 4325044)
utilitarian? isn't that what modernism is characterized by?

i guess you're right about that... i was thinking of whatever the opposite of concert halls, libraries, university buildings, etc is though

Tom Servo Jun 26, 2009 9:12 PM

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Originally Posted by amor de cosmos (Post 4327871)
i guess you're right about that... i was thinking of whatever the opposite of concert halls, libraries, university buildings, etc is though

yeah, i know what you meant. sorry for being a smartass.
:tup:

Bedhead Jun 26, 2009 10:02 PM

Would 'prosaic' or 'humble' be good words? Anyway, it doesn't matter.

I'd certainly say that power station counts. What a great door - and I love the solemn 'AD 1938' in the corner.

It made me think of Giles Gilbert Scott's Art Deco Power Station in Battersea, London, which then made me think of:

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/upl...stamps-bd7.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/01/13/bri...by-royal-mail/
Royal Mail, Dezeen.com

amor de cosmos Jun 27, 2009 1:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bedhead (Post 4328187)
It made me think of Giles Gilbert Scott's Art Deco Power Station in Battersea, London, which then made me think of:

http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/upl...stamps-bd7.jpg
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/01/13/bri...by-royal-mail/
Royal Mail, Dezeen.com

that's exactly what I meant!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ls-Frontal.jpg

vandelay Jun 27, 2009 2:34 AM

Speaking of power stations, here's McKim Mead & White's beaux-arts Hudson River Powerhouse (which they're trying to preserve, both pictures from http://www.hudsonriverpowerhouse.com/):
http://www.hudsonriverpowerhouse.com/images/si_5.jpghttp://www.hudsonriverpowerhouse.com/images/si_6.jpg

LMich Jun 27, 2009 4:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Bedhead (Post 4328187)
It made me think of Giles Gilbert Scott's Art Deco Power Station in Battersea, London

Every time I see our Ottawa Street Power Station, here, I think of Battersea. It was so awesome to have seen it in purpose when I went to London back in 2003. I'm a huge fan of art deco power stations because of these two.

Speaking of power stations, Lansing actually has another downtown-area art deco power station: Ekert Power Station

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/...b4bce6.jpg?v=0
(me)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/...g?v=1223599416
(me)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/...g?v=1215232694
sporacity

CGII Jun 27, 2009 5:26 AM

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Originally Posted by vandelay (Post 4328497)
Speaking of power stations, here's McKim Mead & White's beaux-arts Hudson River Powerhouse

McKim, Mead, & White were very famous for powerstation designs. Basically every majour power station (and I mean EVERY) built between 1890-1930 in and around NY was designed by them. They are really dropping like flies, though, I can think of two that are still in use, one that has been horribly disfigured in a botched renovation job, two that have been recently demolished and three that are disused, and that's just from the top of my head.

amor de cosmos Jun 29, 2009 4:20 PM

the tate modern, formerly the bankside power station, also by sir gilbert scott:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_2001_02.jpg

it started out "utilitarian" but now it's an art gallery; should it be in this thread or not? :P

LMich Jun 30, 2009 3:37 AM

Most definitely, it should.

Bedhead Jul 1, 2009 2:42 PM

:previous: Of course, now it's a modern art gallery it trades on its ultilitarian past as hard as it can, with spaces like the 'turbine hall'. Nothing like a bit of industrial grit to give your conceptual art a bit of kudos!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...London-002.jpg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/200...united-kingdom

From the Guardian, April 2009:

"Thomas Heatherwick has been commissioned by the borough of Kensington and Chelsea to create four newspaper stands; two have been completed and can be found outside Earl's Court and Sloane Square tube stations. The Paperhouse kiosk is an inverted dome shape, made from wood-lined steel. The doors open out in sections with inbuilt magazine racks and the kiosk plugs in to an outside cable so that the light comes on inside."

vandelay Jul 1, 2009 9:24 PM

Two for one, famous architect and famous scientist:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3629/...8b01bd32_o.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/...24cf4b20_o.jpgriowright
Wardenclyffe: Stanford White designed laboratory for Nikola Tesla.

More information here:
Tesla Memorial Society of New York


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