The cool architecture thread

killeye · Post by **killeye** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:45 pm

Some of my faves I've seen on travels :

Singapore (the spaceship bldg is the Supreme Court building)-Can't find a good pic of the Singapore opera house, kinda looks like an echidna!

Tokyo's Asahi (not my photo)

London-Swiss Re Building aka "The Gherkin" as seen in Dr Who! (not my photo)

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:55 pm

Wicked thread! So many awesome buildings here. Everything that came to mind when i was thinking of my favourites has already been posted here except for Gaudi's Sagrada Familia

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:57 pm

w-fucking-ow, that's amazing AndyH

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:07 pm

mixtress wrote:w-fucking-ow, that's amazing AndyH

Yeah it's insane! Gaudi died in like 1920something and since then the place is still being built based around his models and drawings which were half destroyed in the spanish civil war apparently.
He did some other mad stuff too.

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:26 pm

Fiwi v Gaudi

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:30 pm

Gaudi's stuff is farken INSANE. The trek to the top of the staircase at Sagrade Familia was well worth it too

I spent a couple of full days at Park Guell and wanted to go back again.

He died while standing in the middle of the road, admiring the Sagrada Familia, and got hit by a tram

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:32 pm

I find that really really sad

At least he was in the midst of admiring another's work.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:46 pm

he was admiring his own work

numz · Post by **numz** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:01 pm

C.I.A. wrote:

hey CIA, thats huski! I stay there this season.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:02 pm

breaksRbest wrote:he was admiring his own work

Even better.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:03 pm

wait, that didn't come out sounding right

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:04 pm

numz wrote:
C.I.A. wrote:
hey CIA, thats huski! I stay there this season.

will you be there early August Numz?

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:32 pm

numz wrote:
C.I.A. wrote:
hey CIA, thats huski! I stay there this season.

Same. I'll be there on and off for about a month this season.... esp late june and early august. If there is a Burton Shaun White and a Rome vinyl in the board room i'm in da house (wit the hot-tub action on the balcony).

See you there

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:32 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
numz wrote:
C.I.A. wrote:
hey CIA, thats huski! I stay there this season.

will you be there early August Numz?

Lolz... guess who is coming up to join me

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:35 pm

C.I.A. wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:
numz wrote: hey CIA, thats huski! I stay there this season.

will you be there early August Numz?
Lolz... guess who is coming up to join me

ME! and I can't farken wait.

Post by **lynt** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:28 pm

Gaudi! Amazing.

numz · Post by **numz** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:08 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
C.I.A. wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:
will you be there early August Numz?
Lolz... guess who is coming up to join me
ME! and I can't farken wait.

There's five day gaps that we can take it for, just can't decide yet whether it be july or august... some peeps have to get around work. Fuck, could be rad if the timings right...

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:44 pm

first weekend of August Numzmeister

make it happen

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:29 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/ ... ?from=top5

Zaha Hadid set to do some docklands stuff.

Will be interesting to see how much she actually gets to do before a weak conservative public and government severely water down whatever she proposes and she chucks a hissy fit.

Its said Steve Bracks was 'encouraged'. That doesn't sound good.

Ms Hadid's work is variously described as ultra modern, supremacist and utopian. A major influence was pre-Stalin Soviet constructivism

11110100101! great

Royal Australian Institute of Architects Victorian president Philip Goad described Ms Hadid as a "colourful, larger-than-life figure" who would bring much needed "style and finesse" to Docklands. "Docklands could do with a much greater degree of architectural sophistication," he said. "It needs to rise above the developer schlock we now have.

yeah fuck off multipox!

DEAN G · Post by **DEAN G** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:16 pm

great thread, any design nerds out there who work in this industry?

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:52 pm

I hate architects.....I spend most of my time in my job sorting out their messes. They're really good at design concepts and ridiculously bad at making them work. They have simply no idea of how to make buildings work mathematically and therefore there is a very good saying that goes...'the only thing architects know how to add up is their bill'. They really dont like being told that their plans r fucked which is about 70% of the time and once the plans have left their office they simply like to wash they're hands of the job.

There should be a bad architecture thread but it would probably rival the gripe thread! So many shit lookin unit complexs around the place and its not necessarily a planning issue. I guess developers should take a bow too cause they're just as responsible for the shit crammed onto small lots like terrace housing out @ mill park for fuck sake! Devine Housing has about 4 types of houses accept they just reverse them and mirror them and call them something else. You can drive down certain streets in Caroline springs and the whole street is the same house back to front etc. So depressing out there.

Some of the best architecture is not in our urban areas but out in semi-rural areas like Christmas Hills where there r these cool 'eco' style houses that r orientated properly and fit in with the lanscape. Totally sefl sufficient with watertanks, solar power and native veg landscaping.

I luv doing Feing Shui houses.....u ask the client 'do u want your house to face true north, magnetic north or grid north??' Churchs r the best, I once had to work on a site at a certain time and only for 15 minutes while the stars were aligned in the right way.....I'm not joking. We were blessed and everything.

...I could go on.....im ranting

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:06 pm

lol @ grumpy boring engineer who wants more input but must realise he is but a mere consultant to help realise teh architects and clients 'dreams' and notinterfere with banal structural logic.

there is alot more to architecture than making a building work mathematically.

less than 1% of new residences in Victoria are designed by architects! thus the massive amounts of poor housing and bad developer/builder driven crap.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:55 pm

Sagrada Famillia blew my tiny mind.

billions of photos of that place. genius.

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:46 pm

nic wrote:lol @ grumpy boring engineer who wants more input but must realise he is but a mere consultant to help realise teh architects and clients 'dreams' and notinterfere with banal structural logic.

there is alot more to architecture than making a building work mathematically.

less than 1% of new residences in Victoria are designed by architects! thus the massive amounts of poor housing and bad developer/builder driven crap.

Dude....im a surveyor. I've plenty of years experience in this field. We give them a massive amount of information about levels, easements and boundaries and they still fuck things right up. I speak to architects about plans everyday so I dont know wot crack your smokin.

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:56 pm

almax · Post by **almax** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:27 pm

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

my moneys on the architect in skinny pants, unless his fringe gets in his eyes, then he's as good as gone

sten · Post by **sten** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:59 pm

Zero Hour wrote:
nic wrote:lol @ grumpy boring surveyor...

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:01 pm

lolmaxal

peace zero, mad peace.

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:55 pm

nic wrote:lolmaxal

peace zero, mad peace.

most surveyors r very boring.... trust me. I wouldnt be one unless I had my current job which to say the least is a lot dif to most surveying companies. As for being boring and old well...im on here the same as u guys.

And i aint met an interesting architect

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:05 am

Zero Hour wrote: I luv doing Feing Shui houses.....u ask the client 'do u want your house to face true north, magnetic north or grid north??'
...I could go on.....im ranting

Rant away it's fascinating.

What's the feing shui benefits of magenetic, true and grid?

Totally agree about those Caroline Springs houses too, fark! They remind me of the houses in Edward Scissorhands

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:01 am

mixtress wrote:
Zero Hour wrote: I luv doing Feing Shui houses.....u ask the client 'do u want your house to face true north, magnetic north or grid north??'
...I could go on.....im ranting
Rant away it's fascinating.

What's the feing shui benefits of magenetic, true and grid?

Probably PHUCK ALL, I'll bet.

I am loving this thread. Gaudi is rad.

nic · Post by **nic** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:37 am

lol zero im actually a really nice guy

lol hegg

i ahve sometjing positive too add tomorrow

sten · Post by **sten** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:37 am

gaudi sucks really.

Post by **fooishbar** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:20 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:Sagrada Famillia blew my tiny mind.

billions of photos of that place. genius.

some prick in barÃ§a has all mine from sagrada familia and parc gÃ¼ell.

sten · Post by **sten** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:00 pm

zomg disenchantment last night sorries.
gaudi obviously doesnt suck really.

Post by **huge** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:42 pm

bump huhuh

http://www.oobject.com/category/really-cool-pools/

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:51 pm

almost fail huhuhuhuge

Post by **huge** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:52 pm

what on earth do you mean?!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:56 pm

sneaky edit

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:12 pm

http://www.klingmann.com/

Post by **huge** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:51 pm

check out. http://www.graphic-exchange.com/exellen ... kyoung.htm

sick

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:54 pm

huge wrote:

that is WASTE. it looks like a multi-storey carpark built in the 70s, only with tan wood instead of concrete, so even more 70s than before.

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue May 06, 2008 8:35 pm

Post by **huge** » Tue May 06, 2008 8:45 pm

its kick ass foo! 70's is rad!

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue May 06, 2008 8:49 pm

huge wrote:its kick ass foo! 70's is rad!

Post by **huge** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:08 pm

fuck yeah!

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue May 06, 2008 9:51 pm

offform concrete / raw timber rough finishes / open plan / big windows / simple striking geometry
residential 60 / 70's architecture win win win win

no plasterboard timber framed peasant boxes imo

Post by **huge** » Wed May 07, 2008 1:46 am

did u check the rest Foo?

http://www.murdockyoung.com/

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed May 07, 2008 1:49 am

huge wrote:did u check the rest Foo?

http://www.murdockyoung.com/

Can we get some batteries for Billy Bigmouth?

Post by **huge** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:04 pm

take it out of petty cash