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/ |
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 |
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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 |
Yeah, the Mies is great. I'm also amazed by the amount of ornamentation on that FLW building.
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Most definitely, it should.
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: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." |
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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