The cool architecture thread

huge · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:34 pm

Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain...

morphosis

http://re4a.com/?t=0&c=190

The NiterÃ³i Contemporary Art Museum - Rio de Janeiro

more Oscar Niemeyer

The PalÃ¡cio da Alvorada

huge · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:40 pm

palais bulles by antti lovag

huge · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:49 pm

Frank Lloyd Wright

huge · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:51 pm

rooftop pre-fab condo! wtf!

PahMaLa · **Joined:** Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:17 pm **Posts:** 4424

Whoa, awesomeness!

huge · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:01 pm

Daniel Libeskind

Khan Shatyry Entertainment Centre in Astana (Kazakhstan)

Urban Cactus â€“ Rotterdam

huge · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:14 pm

the burj dubai

got this much to go.

bonkers

deviant · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:01 pm

farken nice thread, good pics

I've still got asoft spot for Fed square....

also, the Australian centre for contempory art....

mixtress · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:15 am **Posts:** 13371

I've got a softspot for the Rolling Bridge, Heatherwick stylez

and this, made of a million metres of cable

and these wicked stairs

nic · **Joined:** Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:12 pm **Posts:** 10174

^^^ fuckign hell that is a disgust

ing piece of 'architecture'
why does it look like a hyundai symbol. fits the mould for useless inanae massive money middle east architecture. arabs will build anything these days and it seems have taste out their ass. like that ridiculous fucking homemade islands in the shape of err the world?

Storey Hall is my 'favourite' building, i love it, great inside and out. Needs more raves inside.

zomg there are so many buildings I know of that id love to visit.some architecture i like and rate:

Blur Media Pavillion - Diller and Scofidio
Built on a swiss lake, a seff supporting tensegrity structure. 'made of' 13,000 fog nozzles that make a controllable mist cloud basically. inside the fog you just walk around in some kind of interactive new media rubbish experience, but that misses teh point that thsi would be a great place for a rave. doubles as a mad projection screen for artworks at night.

A few various images of Lebbeus Woods projects - all unbuilt as he is basically an estranged academic type that does beautiful drawings and far too simply put - speculates about ways cities and urban environments can grow and to put change using existing fabric. He has based alot of his projects in post war countries most notably Sarajevo. Also has done concept design work for various movies.

Coop Himmelblau are grizzled (but futuristic) old german deconstructivists that have a large range of built and unbuilt stuff. Sharp rough contradicting and hard but delicate feeling buildings.

UFA Cinema - Dresden

Rooftop extension

umm Foreign Office Architects did this twisting inte4rlocking massive trafficable roof ferry terminal in Yokahama using ship building techniques

Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediateque

diagram of same building

hmm wot else...

gaz · **Joined:** Mon May 01, 2006 2:25 pm **Posts:** 526

santiago calatrava, Puente del Alamillo in Seville (bridge) dude makes things that are always white and curvy and really hard for engineers. High five.

^^Hetherwick rad, love that big star thing too.

More later

lynt · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:14 pm **Posts:** 16005

One of the maddest buildings I saw in Japan was the Sanyo Solar Arc!

MAAAAAAAAAASIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE

gnat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:24 am

nic wrote:

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this is war of the worlds stylez weird

mad thread huge- velly interesting. i like. keep posting

palais bulles is awesome!

sanyo building is an interesting shoe horn- how do tehy effectively use all that space?

Kunsthaus Graz is pretty out there- alien stylez too. these archis love their aliens. and look how he blends in with the town's landscape! genius

kunst haus in vienna was also pretty cool and tres colourful.

fooishbar · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:26 am

needs more gaudÃ.

Lizkins · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:39 am

awesome thread Hughbert! :grin:

old and new in London

gnat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:50 am

spencer st station getting a lot of positive attention worldwide too apparently

i need to go in and have a good look yet- looks pretty impressive aerial stylez tho

mixtress · **Joined:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:15 am **Posts:** 13371

I get nauseous being in big open plan buildings like Spencer St Station. Same with most shopping centres, it's like my centre of gravity goes for a swim.

I really don't like Fed Square. It might be nice if it wasn't surrounded by historic buildings like the cathedral, the Forum and Flinders St station.

Lizkins · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:04 am

spencer st station

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maurice/312510660/

contrast - Fed square

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:35 am

Centre Pompidou, Paris

stovequeen · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:26 am **Posts:** 8552

huge wrote:

Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain...

MY PICS OF THE SAME BUILDING...

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:06 am

Puppy looks lovely in front of the building. So do you Fiwi

stovequeen · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:26 am **Posts:** 8552

Polecat wrote:

Puppy looks lovely in front of the building. So do you Fiwi

he he.. thanks!

That puppy was massive!

breaksRbest · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:10 am

It's supposed to be a cat

stovequeen · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 4:26 am **Posts:** 8552

breaksRbest wrote:

It's supposed to be a cat

oh.. really? looked like a dog :oops:

C.I.A. · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:13 am

stovequeen wrote:

breaksRbest wrote:

It's supposed to be a cat

oh.. really? looked like a dog :oops:

Nah, SQ is right. It is a sculpture by Jeff Koons called "Puppy".

Lizkins · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:14 am

where did you post go CIA about it going to hell?

breaksRbest · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:15 am

I always thought it was a cat. When I worked at the photo library we got hundreds of requests for the Guggenhein Cat

:lol:

C.I.A. · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:19 am

Lizkins wrote:

where did you post go CIA about it going to hell?

Jeff Koons is a tool. He does stuff like ceramic busts of Michael Jackson and his Chimp Bubbles, marries porn stars who are running for office in italy and makes giant sculptures of him fucking them.

His art is a reflection of his ego. Bloated.

Lizkins · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:20 am

C.I.A. wrote:

Lizkins wrote:

where did you post go CIA about it going to hell?

Jeff Koons is a tool. He does stuff like ceramic busts of Michael Jackson and his Chimp Bubbles, marries porn stars who are running for office in italy and makes giant sculptures of him fucking them.

His art is a reflection of his ego. Bloated.

in that case, i concur with your now deleted post, Jeff Koon can go to hell.

:grin:

gnat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:34 am

that 'puppy' was in sydney once i think i saw it when i was there years back

maybe?

C.I.A. · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:37 am

gnat wrote:

that 'puppy' was in sydney once i think i saw it when i was there years back

maybe?

Yep,

It's been to sydney.

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 pm

breaksRbest wrote:

It's supposed to be a cat

bwhahaha!!

Puppy is a puppy not a pusscat!

huge · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:11 pm

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:16 pm

where is that building huge? weird!

huge · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:20 pm

dunno lol. elephants indead. huhuh.

almax · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:50 pm

looks like Thai writing in the foreground so i'd guess its Bangkok

huge · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:56 pm

say so. the link has "high on chatuchack"

almax · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:04 pm

mrj · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:20 pm

"Id rather be a doctor than an architect. A doctor can bury his mistakes, an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"

can't remember who said that.

lynt · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:14 pm **Posts:** 16005

Maybe not many points for style, but this was one of the wonders of Osaka, absolutely freeeeking massive. Can see it for miles. I'll try to remember the name.

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:34 pm

mrj wrote:

"Id rather be a doctor than an architect. A doctor can bury his mistakes, an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"

can't remember who said that.

the quote is attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright.

mrj · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:42 pm

LOL ur a fukkin classic Al :lol:

drew · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:57 pm

my fav architects... 6 degrees, based in melbourne

http://www.sixdegrees.com.au/

but yeah, frank gehry comes a very close 2nd, the guggenheim in bilbao is amazing.... shattered i still havnt seen the doco on him:(

C.I.A. · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:07 pm

yenks · **Joined:** Sun May 01, 2005 10:10 pm **Posts:** 1308

Ive always been a fan of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A different construction company was hired for each of the towers, and they were made to compete against each other to see who could construct their tower first.

ghetto kitty · **Joined:** Thu May 04, 2006 12:40 pm **Posts:** 11518

wow, great thread!!!!

jeff koons is a tosser, yes.

wow.

speechless at all the amazing stuff...

more words later..

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:44 pm

The Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall

breaksRbest · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:47 pm

not much difference between that and the Bilbao Guggenheim

Polecat · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:54 pm

^ I know what you mean, which is kind of why I posted the pic. This one was built in 2006, while the Bilbao is 1997.

It is in a general Gehry theme, but I think the Bilbao one looks more textural and sculptural with its curly bits. It reminds me of a ship a bit, especially how it is on a waterfront.

gaz · **Joined:** Mon May 01, 2006 2:25 pm **Posts:** 526

i read Bilbao was inspired by ' a fish jumping out of the river and flapping around'

lol

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