architecture appreciation thread

[pete]

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

miami convention center, rem koolhaas

slideshow here

 

[pete]

cornell university cow barn, erdy mchenry architecture

 

[pete]

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*****ofanarchitect.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]

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

that's nice

 

[pete]

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]

canadian embassy, washington dc (arthur erickson)

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

 

[chillywilly2]

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]

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.

 

[Laurel]

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

 

[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.

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]

 

[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.

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