The cool architecture thread

Post by **huge** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:34 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

Post by **huge** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:40 pm

palais bulles by antti lovag

Post by **huge** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:49 pm

Frank Lloyd Wright

Post by **huge** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:51 pm

rooftop pre-fab condo! wtf!

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:52 pm

Whoa, awesomeness!

Post by **huge** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:01 pm

Daniel Libeskind

Khan Shatyry Entertainment Centre in Astana (Kazakhstan)

Urban Cactus â€“ Rotterdam

Post by **huge** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:14 pm

the burj dubai

got this much to go.

bonkers

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:01 pm

farken nice thread, good pics

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

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

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:25 pm

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 · Post by **nic** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:30 pm

^^^ fuckign hell that is a disgusting 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 · Post by **gaz** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:43 pm

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

Post by **lynt** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:46 pm

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

MAAAAAAAAAASIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:24 am

nic wrote:

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.

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:26 am

needs more gaudÃ.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:39 am

awesome thread Hughbert!

old and new in London

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:50 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 · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:53 am

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 · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:04 am

spencer st station

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

contrast - Fed square

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:35 am

Centre Pompidou, Paris

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:49 am

huge wrote:Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain...

MY PICS OF THE SAME BUILDING...

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:06 pm

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

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:09 pm

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

he he.. thanks!

That puppy was massive!

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:10 pm

It's supposed to be a cat

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:12 pm

breaksRbest wrote:It's supposed to be a cat

oh.. really? looked like a dog

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:13 pm

stovequeen wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:It's supposed to be a cat
oh.. really? looked like a dog

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

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:14 pm

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

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:15 pm

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

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:19 pm

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 · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:20 pm

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.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:34 pm

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

maybe?

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:37 pm

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 · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:04 pm

breaksRbest wrote:It's supposed to be a cat

bwhahaha!!

Puppy is a puppy not a pusscat!

Post by **huge** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:11 pm

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:16 pm

where is that building huge? weird!

Post by **huge** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:20 pm

dunno lol. elephants indead. huhuh.

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:50 pm

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

Post by **huge** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:56 pm

say so. the link has "high on chatuchack"

almax · Post by **almax** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:04 pm

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:20 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.

Post by **lynt** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:44 pm

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 · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:34 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 · Post by **mrj** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:42 pm

LOL ur a fukkin classic Al

drew · Post by **drew** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:57 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. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:07 pm

yenks · Post by **yenks** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:34 pm

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 · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:44 pm

wow, great thread!!!!

jeff koons is a tosser, yes.

wow.

speechless at all the amazing stuff...

more words later..

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:44 pm

The Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:47 pm

not much difference between that and the Bilbao Guggenheim

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:54 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 · Post by **gaz** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:27 pm

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

lol

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