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Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 15 2009, 09:32 PM

i don't even know if anyone here is interested in architecture. if you are, or if you just happen to run across some you like, post it here (unless you feel like making a whole topic for it). buildings, houses, whatever you like.

Posted by: Joannnnnne Jan 15 2009, 09:44 PM

Not so much my favourite architecture, but definitely something I find interesting:
I heard that the architecture of my university was inspired by prisons and that the architects even tried to imitate the bars on the windows. And then I heard the design was considered very modern and 'before their time'...

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 15 2009, 09:45 PM

architects with a sense of humor perhaps

Posted by: Joannnnnne Jan 15 2009, 09:53 PM

Yeah, people make fun of the school saying there's a high rate of suicides because it's so grey there. But there's... some green too.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 15 2009, 09:56 PM

i actually like the layout, though i can't say i'm in love with the outside appearance. i like the whole courtyard thing.

Posted by: Joannnnnne Jan 15 2009, 09:59 PM

Yeah, the courtyard with the pool is the prettiest part of campus. It's difficult to get a general view of the university though because it's mostly underground.

Posted by: Gigi Jan 17 2009, 05:13 AM

The Rose Garden at UBC is the perfect place to watch the sunset. Not really architecture in the most interesting sense but pretty nonetheless:

Our two big libraries are pretty too.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (front):


Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (back):


The back is actually the old 1925 Main Library, and the new more modern-looking part was added recently.

Walter C Koerner Library


Lol. A couple took their wedding photos in front of the library as well. What dorks..."we met and fell in love at the library".


Museum of Anthropology:

Posted by: doughnut Jan 17 2009, 06:40 AM

bank of china tower


louvre and the glass pyramid.

Posted by: mipadi Jan 17 2009, 03:37 PM

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Falling Water:

Falling Water is about two and a half hours from where I grew up, and I got to go see it a few years ago. It's a pretty impressive house. Wright's careful attention to detail really impressed me. For example, some parts of the house have glass running up almost the entire wall (both floors!); the edges of the floor (on the second floor) actually angle inwards, so you can't see the floor from the outside very well. Wright thought that this helped increase the elegance of the glasswork. He also had custom desks built so that they could fit neatly into the walls in some of the rooms. It's that attention to detail that I find even more impressive than the fact that the house is built over a waterfall.

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be an architect. It seemed like the best way to combine math, engineering, and art.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 17 2009, 08:25 PM

i know exactly what you mean. i started out as an architecture major before i switched to art. part of me still wants to be one, but i suppose not enough to keep me from changing majors.


i like falling water too. it was one of the first ones that got me more interested in houses and away from just buildings.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 23 2009, 08:31 AM

Project: BV House
Typology: Residential
Architect: Biselli + Katchborian architects
Location: São Paulo – SP - Brazil
Project: 2006/ 2007
Construction: 2007/ 2008

Posted by: iii Jan 24 2009, 01:05 AM

well, I am not knowledgeable at all, but this is my friend's website (who is younger than me, wtf): http://www.allaboutskyscrapers.com

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Jan 24 2009, 10:43 AM

^hey i have been to that website before!

Posted by: iii Jan 24 2009, 03:02 PM

^ The guy who started it is a strange strange person.

Posted by: carolannexbh Jan 24 2009, 03:35 PM

There is also a house on Lake Geneva that was inspired by Falling Water. I'll post the picture when I find it. Lake Geneva has some really cool houses/mansions.

edit:

You can't see it that well because of the trees, but I thought it was pretty cool.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Feb 23 2009, 05:21 PM

Posted by: Janette Feb 25 2009, 03:15 PM

Santiago Calatrava has some pretty interesting work.

Posted by: Janette Feb 25 2009, 04:15 PM

Tim Hawkinson's Überorgan.

detail

Posted by: illmortal Feb 25 2009, 05:01 PM

I don't think is really architecture but more like "carving" lol:

^ That's in Petra, Jordan

I love this (in Dubai):
Donald Trump's future hotel:

Posted by: Janette Feb 26 2009, 02:46 PM

the ROM by Daniel Libeskind.

Posted by: superstitious Feb 26 2009, 08:08 PM

I would be both excited and slightly nervous to work in an office like this:


Lots more http://www.been-seen.com/index.cfm?category=1002.
The Temple of a Million Bottles is a trip!

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Feb 26 2009, 11:19 PM

Posted by: Janette Feb 27 2009, 02:32 AM

I pass by this one a lot on the freeway. It used to be white.




white

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Mar 5 2009, 09:00 AM

Posted by: Insurmountable Mar 5 2009, 10:18 PM

I love architecture. I actually wanted to be architect when I was a kid but then I took a lot of drafting classes and got bored. I think it was the teacher..

I can't find a picture but I remember seeing this house that each floor was a room for someone and the actual living part of the house was completely seperate and it was all in the woods. Really neat.

Posted by: smash Mar 9 2009, 04:34 AM

that's beautiful.

Posted by: Joanne Mar 9 2009, 12:19 PM

http://www.juliusshulmanfilm.com/trailer-gallery/

About architecture, photography, and architectural photography.

Posted by: Joanne Mar 12 2009, 01:15 PM

Hehe, found some drawings of my university by Vancouver-based artist http://www.catrionajeffries.com/b_a_morrison_works.html:

Posted by: Medi Mar 12 2009, 01:24 PM

@ Joanne: the last one looks like the inside of a prison.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Mar 12 2009, 01:27 PM

damn, i love wood planking around pools always. where is this?

Posted by: Medi Mar 12 2009, 01:29 PM

Not real. It was created with a 3D program.

Posted by: Joanne Mar 12 2009, 01:29 PM

Haha, funny you should say that.......



But that's actually the outside courtyard. The bottom bit is the reflection of the building in the pond.

Posted by: Medi Mar 12 2009, 01:31 PM

Eerie concept.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Mar 12 2009, 01:32 PM

lol oh these programs fool me all the time now.


well i hope they build it.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Mar 12 2009, 02:13 PM

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Posted by: Medi Mar 12 2009, 04:29 PM

These too

Modern architecture. ^_^

Posted by: Joanne Mar 12 2009, 04:30 PM

Wow, so many digitally simulated buildings.

Posted by: smash Mar 12 2009, 04:34 PM

is that a house?

Posted by: Medi Mar 12 2009, 04:35 PM

Yes.

Posted by: smash Mar 12 2009, 04:45 PM

that's gorgeous. i don't think i'd live in a house like that but i'd vacation there.

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Posted by: mifff Jun 23 2009, 06:30 AM

You HAVEEHAVEHAVHEHAVEH to look into Antonio (sometimes Antoni) Gaudi's works.. I saw his works in a documentary on some channel and it was AMAZING. He was a modernist inspired by more natural, organic forms (translating into moar parabolic curves) and I think his most noted works were in Barcelona and blahblablala. I tried looking for vids or pics to show and do him justice but I couldn't find any : ( Here's a vid anyway--

They coined him Gods Architect cause of his gigantic cathedral still in construction

Posted by: Janette Jun 29 2009, 05:55 PM

Zagreb, Croatia








there was more but i think that's enough lol

Posted by: superstitious Aug 7 2009, 07:45 PM

The Guggenheim just celebrated its 50th birthday.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111434035

I love this description:

Posted by: Janette Aug 9 2009, 03:53 AM

Recently created by Archivirus Architecture and Design, the Ramp House is a response to the client’s request for a “skateable habitat”.

According to architect Athanasia Psaraki, the Ramp House is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The result of the client’s request is a curved form interior, which “set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion”.

Posted by: brooklyneast05 Oct 10 2009, 07:11 PM

Posted by: shadowfax Aug 10 2010, 11:13 AM

Wow, UBC is gorgeous! Robarts Library at UofT is shaped like a turkey. Yes, you read that right. Sure, it's gigantic and was featured on FRIENDS but still, a friggin' turkey.




As for things I actually like... there's this beautiful art school in Singapore with a green roof!

Posted by: serotonin Aug 10 2010, 01:35 PM

damn that third one is pretty