architecture appreciation thread

[pete]

add your pics, gifs and articles here. try to credit the designers, if possible.

http://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/OMA-wins-miami-beach-convetion-center-designboom01.jpg
miami convention center, rem koolhaas

slideshow here

 

[pete]

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/2013/07/images/Teaching-dairy-barn-erdy-mchenry-architecture-main.jpg
cornell university cow barn, erdy mchenry architecture

 

[pete]

http://www.nycopenhouse.com/.a/6a00e54ece15738833014e5f2ff4e1970c-800wi
8 spruce street, nyc, frank gehry (one of the few bldgs of his i like)

 

[KRCummings]

8 spruce street, nyc, frank gehry (one of the few bldgs of his i like)

How do you like only a few Gehry? He is brilliant.

 

[KRCummings]

It's still being built but the double helix building in Taipei is interesting.

 

[pete]

http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bob-Borson-construction-sketch-02.jpg

nice little sketch i came across on an otherwise boring architect's blog

 

[pete]

How do you like only a few Gehry? He is brilliant.

he's a cunt with a massive ego, and his buildings leak like a sieve.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1016704_495168850569648_516913046_n.jpg

 

[Adre]

De gustibas non est disputandum.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

http://www.nycopenhouse.com/.a/6a00e54ece15738833014e5f2ff4e1970c-800wi
8 spruce street, nyc, frank gehry (one of the few bldgs of his i like)

that's nice

 

[pete]

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/1016704_495168850569648_516913046_n.jpg

that's an interesting stadium, hope they noodled out all the drainage issues...

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

that's an interesting stadium, hope they noodled out all the drainage issues...

lol word..

 

[pete]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Embassy_of_Canada,_Washington,_D.C..jpg
canadian embassy, washington dc (arthur erickson)

i've biked by this bldg a few times, its better appreciated up close

 

[chillywilly2]

http://www.nycopenhouse.com/.a/6a00e54ece15738833014e5f2ff4e1970c-800wi
8 spruce street, nyc, frank gehry (one of the few bldgs of his i like)

holy crap that would be expensive

 

[pete]

holy crap that would be expensive

yeah i imagine the steel fabricators' shop drawings were as thick as a bible

 

[pete]

http://goodshomedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Meera-Sky-Garden-House.jpg
sky garden house, singapore (guz architects)

there's a little too much going on for my own liking, but overall its pretty cool.

see more here

 

[chillywilly2]

yeah i imagine the steel fabricators' shop drawings were as thick as a bible

There wouldn't be very many drawings saying 2 required...

 

[Laurel]

One of my favorites - Frank Gehry's Dancing House in Prague.

http://eliinbar.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dancing_house_frank_gehry1.jpg

 

[Laurel]

another Gehry - the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Wanna see this in person before I die.

http://blog.illumind.com/wp-content/gallery/euskadi/guggenheim-portrait.jpg

 

[KingOrfeo]

How do you like only a few Gehry? He is brilliant.

Check out James Howard Kunstler's Eyesore of the Month. Gehry's work is often featured.

 

[KingOrfeo]

One of my favorites - Frank Gehry's Dancing House in Prague.

http://eliinbar.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dancing_house_frank_gehry1.jpg

See, that's the kind of thing that's cool to look at in a photo, but only an idiot would want in their neighborhood.

 

[parodyluvr75]

http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/birdsnest-hotels.jpeg

 

[KRCummings]

Check out James Howard Kunstler's Eyesore of the Month. Gehry's work is often featured.

Art critics are assholes. Every single one of them.

 

[Byron In Exile]

De gustibas non est disputandum.

"Gustibus" vis dicere.

 

[KRCummings]

One of my favorites - Frank Gehry's Dancing House in Prague.

http://eliinbar.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dancing_house_frank_gehry1.jpg

Never made up my mind on that. Artistically it's great but it's a little overdone.