The chairs are nice, too. And always a fan of exposed brickwork in former industrial buildings.
I dreamt (dreamt is totally a word google autocorrect!) of buying a brick loft here. And there are some within a reasonable price range for me. However the downside is that they almost never have any parking, and you're pretty car dependent here.
Could probably get a nice 2 bedroom close to downtown for less than 200k.
Wife wasn't having it though, so here we are in suburbia.
''If you think of Brick, you say to Brick, ‘What do you want, Brick?’ And Brick says to you, ‘I like an Arch.’ And if you say to Brick, ‘Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over you. What do you think of that, Brick?’ Brick says, ‘I like an Arch.’ And it’s important, you see, that you honor the material that you use. [..] You can only do it if you honor the brick and glorify the brick instead of shortchanging it.''
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That's a very nice quote.
It's funny how every medium has artists who base a lot of their work on respecting the limits and strengths of the materials they're using.
This extremely odd hand-cranked player piano is the city of Eindhoven
A three dimensional map of the city was rolled around the cylinder, with the levels of the buildings evened out a bit, and then attached to this large scale player piano setup
So this is what a city sounds like, more or less
Here's the artist site, where he also has two other interesting projects
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set in the picturesque agricultural landscape of kent in southeast england, british practice liddicoat & goldhill has recently completed the renovation of an 18th century threshing barn into a transformed living space. the clients, a fashion designer and digital designer, are avid collectors of reclaimed architectural artifacts, allowing the architects the opportunity to approach the design from a new angle, creating a structure that is equal parts home and gallery. though the barn was in a state of almost complete collapse, many of its elements were kept intact or refurbished to be implemented into the fabric of the new space.
That's a nice building, I especially like the unfolding walls to reveal the windows (would be hard not to hum the thunderbirds theme each time I used them though).
Yeah, the general consensus around here is that it was perhaps a bit much, but I think MIT felt they needed to 'show the proper amount of respect', as it were.
I mean, if I was the professor at the architecture department and someone unloaded a truck of money at my doorstep to build a memorial I don't know if I would decline and say to spend the money on something better.
I guess it also shows the difference between successful US universities that have a ton of cash from students/donors/government contracts etc. and a university that is mostly state funded.
Enclosure panels on a dynamic geometry are slotted into the structural framing to allow daylight to penetrate deep into the heart of the scheme and can be controlled to modify the internal environment – closed in winter for extra warmth and opened in summer to allow natural ventilation. Energy management is at the heart of the design, with additional strategies to include on-site renewable and low-carbon energy generation.
Enclosure panels on a dynamic geometry are slotted into the structural framing to allow daylight to penetrate deep into the heart of the scheme and can be controlled to modify the internal environment – closed in winter for extra warmth and opened in summer to allow natural ventilation. Energy management is at the heart of the design, with additional strategies to include on-site renewable and low-carbon energy generation.
speaking of the MIT campus (things have moved on now obviously), but what is up with the CSAIL building
I mean yes, very cool, very funky, very looney-toons, but if I feel like you're going to commit to a non-euclidean geometry both inside and out you could at least put up a few frigging wall maps around the place.
Oh man. That's a big question. There are some architects who I really like in some areas but kinda hate in others, some whe maybe the individual works are not that fantastic but the underlying philosophy speaks to me. Really hard to say.
He is not someone who's very concerned with functionality
Upon reflection, I've decided the lack of signage means that the faculty administration must have decided to use the place as a test of navigation skills and intuitive geometrical problem solving.
Oh man. That's a big question. There are some architects who I really like in some areas but kinda hate in others, some whe maybe the individual works are not that fantastic but the underlying philosophy speaks to me. Really hard to say.
Thats a very good point, they can often be different things!
He is not someone who's very concerned with functionality
Upon reflection, I've decided the lack of signage means that the faculty administration must have decided to use the place as a test of navigation skills and intuitive geometrical problem solving.
I love buildings like that!
We had this one building in my college that everyone got lost in for some reason
I don't know why - it was pretty much just shaped like a swastika (at a 30% Jewish college), there weren't like, branching corridors or anything
But it was a mind-boggling experience for people apparently
I've always had a killer sense of direction, so it never bothered me much
Mapping things out in my brain is like, a fun activity for me
Oh man. That's a big question. There are some architects who I really like in some areas but kinda hate in others, some whe maybe the individual works are not that fantastic but the underlying philosophy speaks to me. Really hard to say.
Thats a very good point, they can often be different things!
List of the top of my head in no particular order:
Toyo Ito
Steven Hall
Tadao Ando
Shigeru Ban
Peter Zumthor
David Chipperfield
That's just for some contemporary architects and also only some of the bigger names, because I can never remember names for the life of me. But I think it gives a general direction.
edit: At least for furniture I have a definitive favourite. Charles and Ray Eames.
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I dreamt (dreamt is totally a word google autocorrect!) of buying a brick loft here. And there are some within a reasonable price range for me. However the downside is that they almost never have any parking, and you're pretty car dependent here.
Could probably get a nice 2 bedroom close to downtown for less than 200k.
Wife wasn't having it though, so here we are in suburbia.
But it loses its thread
It's funny how every medium has artists who base a lot of their work on respecting the limits and strengths of the materials they're using.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
cycle and pedestrian tunnel in Amsterdam
That's just painted onto a brick wall. I'm not falling for that one again.
This extremely odd hand-cranked player piano is the city of Eindhoven
A three dimensional map of the city was rolled around the cylinder, with the levels of the buildings evened out a bit, and then attached to this large scale player piano setup
So this is what a city sounds like, more or less
Here's the artist site, where he also has two other interesting projects
But it loses its thread
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Collier Memorial - MIT Campus.
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edit: usually it'd be a plaque or something, I'm not sure why such a -big- memorial, I mean.
I guess it also shows the difference between successful US universities that have a ton of cash from students/donors/government contracts etc. and a university that is mostly state funded.
Ooh yes, tell me more.
Te Tuhirangi Contour at Gibbs Farm - Richard Serra
I mean yes, very cool, very funky, very looney-toons, but if I feel like you're going to commit to a non-euclidean geometry both inside and out you could at least put up a few frigging wall maps around the place.
Quote: "That's so stupid looking it's great."
*nods solemnly*
Upon reflection, I've decided the lack of signage means that the faculty administration must have decided to use the place as a test of navigation skills and intuitive geometrical problem solving.
Thats a very good point, they can often be different things!
They didn't even feed you!
I love buildings like that!
We had this one building in my college that everyone got lost in for some reason
I don't know why - it was pretty much just shaped like a swastika (at a 30% Jewish college), there weren't like, branching corridors or anything
But it was a mind-boggling experience for people apparently
I've always had a killer sense of direction, so it never bothered me much
Mapping things out in my brain is like, a fun activity for me
List of the top of my head in no particular order:
Toyo Ito
Steven Hall
Tadao Ando
Shigeru Ban
Peter Zumthor
David Chipperfield
That's just for some contemporary architects and also only some of the bigger names, because I can never remember names for the life of me. But I think it gives a general direction.
edit: At least for furniture I have a definitive favourite. Charles and Ray Eames.