The Architecture Thread

[ezza]

big up agent, the design ark is a sick site, waste so much time just staring at it

haha yeah

you can spend hours on end

the TV program Grand Designs is good too,

nah grand designs is shit imo

always ruined by a silly wife thinking shes an interior designer

(tbf i have been entertained)

[Molzie]

Kevin McCloud is a don

[garethom]

I like the ending of grand designs when I can see the cotch they've made, otherwise it's just rich white folk complaining about their amazing house.

some woman bought 2 cooker hoods that cost £6k each, and then she was moaning when they arrived, saying it was the worst day of her life... smh

[ezza]

haha yeah thats it, they annoy me too much. the end is cool tho

tbf they're not even super rich, like it would be sick to actually do it yourself when you're 30 ish

some of them get sick house for around 400k

[ultraspatial]

http://ro-w.tumblr.com/page/28

[nowaysj]

Always preferred Fank Wright´s vision of what should be architecture over Le Corbusier theory, that had horrible influence to the modern architecture imo, but this chapel by him is amazing

[DiegoSapiens]

i don't get it

[garethom]

haha yeah thats it, they annoy me too much. the end is cool tho

tbf they're not even super rich, like it would be sick to actually do it yourself when you're 30 ish

some of them get sick house for around 400k

Seen some absolutely sick ones for like £110k. Saw this one where the couple were friends with an architect, then it come up that the husband had died then after that, you could blatantly tell the widow was petting the architects serpent from then on.

[Shum]

National Centre for the Performing Arts building in Beijing makes me rage too.

[ultraspatial]

http://www.yomadic.com/communist-architecture-zagreb/

[kay]

Anyone been watching this series on BBC4? I've been enjoying it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... he_Future/

[kay]

My girlfriend's dad got me one of those "1001 xyz to see before you die" books about architecture at christmas, really good, will go through it again and post some faves.

gotta say before this thread gets going, fuck frank gehry and if you down with frank gehry then fuck you too

just did a google. all look shit.

I reckon Frank Gehry's Stata building (houses CSAIL at MIT) is pretty cool

[cloaked_up]

this is my fave 5 panel instditrail tekkerz cover bulding

from where i grew up
it was for sale in 2000 for 400k aud lol...fuk sake i would have deffo lived there

[nousd]

Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:



Big up Birmingham Council, taking down old "ugly" buildings and replacing them with uglier-but-shiny new buildings.

agree
but to be fair, it's not finished...they haven't put the teeth in yet

[nowaysj]

Will resemble a shinny vag, but I think it is meant to be the eye.

[nousd]

I like Gehrys residential work much better than his - big stuff...



interior shot:

generally, I agree... this is comfortable-looking
altho you've gotta visit his Bilbao Museum...the cladding is brilliant

[nousd]

Will resemble a shinny vag, but I think it is meant to be the eye.

ah yeah, you're right

[Pedro Sánchez]

When spiderman did a stint as a bricky...

[Pedro Sánchez]

[nowaysj]

Square hive.