Favorite Architect or Building

[fab_fifties_fille]

Oh my god twilight I'm using that as inspiration in my fashion project at the moment

[MulletProof]

that's awesome, twilight.

my favorite is the upcoming guggenheim in guadalajara

[smartarse]

^ thanks mullet! I will look forward to this one. Definitely, will be in my must-see list of travels.

I just want to add... I LOVE this thread. I'm an architectural buff. Karma for you Charlotte

[SiennaInLondon]

Twilight that is awesome! Browneyes where are you at the moment?

[CharlottefromCA]

Originally Posted by SiennaInLondon

Love the Gherkin brown eyes! I was just talking about Battersea Power Station with my friend Paul. We are gonna try and break in and spend the night there with our cameras. I hope it isn't patrolled. Inspired by the line from Baby Shambles' Albion "If you are looking for a cheap tart glint with perspiration, there is a four mile queue outside the disused power station". If anyone wants to come, PM me. Paul is a law student and we are pretty sure even if we are caught, we can't be charged with anything.


It's just glorious!!

Wow that sounds like fun.. too I live thousands of miles away... that building is so imposing...

And that Tods is really nice.. whats with Tokyo and all these nice stores!?

And I had no clue they were making a guggenheim in guadalaraja.. never would have guessed..

And Nice view Twilight

[taz]

TADAO ANDO




i love the way he uses the rough concrete for the surface & his minimalestic style.

[taz]

Richard Meier
i wish if i can live in one of his pure white houses

[taz]

Jean Nouvel & his master piece :Institut du Monde Arabe at 11 quai Saint-Bernard, it is my fav. building in Paris , it is a must seen building & don't forget to visit the gift shop & the restaurent on the terrace.





here is an article about it by Jay Berman 1998

The Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) is the smallest of the Grands Projets (Mitterrand’s 15 billion franc program to provide a series of modern monuments to symbolize France’s central role in art, politics, and world economy at the end of the twentieth century), housing a library, exhibits, and other functions devoted to the relationship of Arab culture with France. It is located along the Seine roughly at the boundary of historical Paris and a more modern urban fabric to the southeast, the beginning of which is marked by the university building at Jussieu.
Nouvel produces a wonderfully minimal composition of forms: a gently curving wall to the north facing the Seine comes to a sharp and deep cleft as it meets a rectilinear block which faces a large open plaza and the university buildings to the south. Most notable, as we would expect from Nouvel, is the surface treatment. Along the south facade the IMA reinterprets traditional Arab latticework screens in glass and steel: 30,000 light-sensitive diaphragms are designed to regulate the penetration of light into the building.
The unique use of high-tech photosensitive mechanical devices to control light levels and transparency—as well as the beauty of the solution—made this building famous and piqued interest in the use of ‘smart’ materials (which can respond to changing environments) in buildings. The problem: the system no longer works. Nonetheless, the south facade is quite beautiful. The striking south facade and the carefully orchestrated sequence between the entrance onto the plaza and the entrance of the building set up interesting scale relationships.

go there in a sunny day so u enjoy the light casting on the floor.

[taz]

the iraqi architect ZAHA HADID, the most famous female architect....her work is the most contemprary:







liked the avant-gard design of the mosque




i love the way she connects the street to the building

[taz]

intresting building calexico , nice post

[Browneyes]

The Lloyd's Building


(Credit: Picture from a website called emporis.com)

The Lloyd's building in London - designed by Richard Rogers, built in 1986.
All the services, including elevators, tubes for electrical wiring, plumbing and drainage are built on the OUTSIDE of the building.
It's like an inside-out building somehow. I find this an amusing building concept, and quite unique as far as I know.

Really great pictures from everyone, i like this thread alot!
SiennaInLondon, i'm kind of here and there right now... Lisbon-Copenhagen-Geneva-Berlin... just not London

[lumy_]

ice hotel in sweden (credit: vacation2europe)
love all the buildings posted, especially the louvre and guggenheim museum, and frank lloyd wright and gaudi and oh this will never end....

[Browneyes]

^wow that's so cool! but surely quite cold?

[smartarse]

^ actually, it's not that cold. Not the kind of cold you'd expect

[smartarse]

taz- I LOVE the color adobe-like architectures. Where in mexico?