January 2011
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If undergraduate architecture students saw this...
Volcano Buono, Renzo Piano (2007)
If any of the architecture students I T.A.ed last summer saw this project… chaos would ensue. The fucker has a 150m wide crater and a total diameter of 320m. This thing is not just an XL building, it is also thick and light apparently gets into it. If this volcano was also tall… reviewing projects would cease to be relevant. There comes a point when...
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The Antiperspective Situation
The Antiperspective Situation, Olafur Eliasson (2003)
This art installation/sculpture is a device that expands our perceptual understanding of the infinite/finite. If scalar hierarchy of Smithson was shattered and the cultural order of science was thrown into disarray, we would have the above. More on this artwork later…
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Willoughby Design Barn
Willoughby Design Barn, el dorado (20??)
This house is pretty amazing because of its over-the-top detailing. The house looks minimalist but it’s really intricate in its assembly. This is architectural detail porn (not a bad thing)… and the overhead door-draw bridge entrance is like DPP (maybe a bad thing).
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Sway
Sway, SCI-Arc 1A Studio (2010)
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Breuillot’s House
Breuillot’s House, Bernard Quirot & Olivier Vichard (20??)
There are some weird aggressive tectonics in this house. The form is attractive… but it’s a house for a single person/couple? Shrug.
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THRILL ME
Night of the Creeps, Fred Dekker (1986)
One word… BADASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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“Kunsthaus Bregenz is of Zumthor’s most underrated, sophisticated, and...”
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Vinaròs Promenade
Vinaròs Promenade, Guallart Architects (2007)
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“By 1850 Port Credit, in what is now the City of Mississauga, had become home to...”
– Suburbia’s Last Stand, Larry Frolick, pg.1
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“Plunging deeper, through temperatures as low as 4°C, our diver will find loose...”
– Suburbia’s Last Stand, Larry Frolick, pg.1
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“Tkaronto means ‘where there are trees standing in the water’,...”
– Canadian Geographic-September/October ‘94, Alan Rayburn, pg.68-70
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“‘Today we must conceive the machine not as mechanism but as praxis,...”
– Fire and Memory, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, pg.152
Footlight Parade Waterfall, Lloyd Bacon (1933)
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“Even at its very origins, the machine was indebted to the organism for at least...”
– Fire and Memory, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, pg.146
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“The mechanical face therefore has an organic back; the organism is perceived...”
– Fire and Memory, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, pg. 145
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Hangzhou Normal University Cangqian Performing...
Hangzhou Normal University Cangqian Performing Arts Center, Art Museum and Arts Quadrangle, Steven Holl (2011)
Buildings like these that makes me wonder if they had just showed the last image in a press release the public would really understand how or why a project was brought into existence… all that additive/subtractive crap is just not interesting or relevant. The buildings were...
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Solar Umbrella
Solar Umbrella, Brooks + Scarpa (2005)
These guys seem to always design hyper-tectonic spaces like the house in Heat. At least something good came out of the 1990s.
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Things just aren't what they seem.
USWA sold it’s soul to the devil
One would think to own something like a building is to possess its physical structures… it’s ‘architecture’. It’s not - you have to own the real currencies/power-structures of architecture: air-conditioning, elevators and mechanical systems. To own the bricks that support your (constantly leaking) roof is like owning Vichy...
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“At stake in what makes humans human, he thought, is not only language but...”
– Michael Taussig on Georges Bataille, Miasma, “Culture and Waste” pg. 10
(in the end it’s all about the Albatross soup…)
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Volga DachaHouse
VolgaDacha House, Bureau Bernaskoni (2009-2010)
I hate the wood deck platforms all around the house. The colour concentrations that shift from building to deck is too bold of a contrast. I really enjoy the size of the house.