The Architecture Thread

[StephenHero]

I'm not sure how I feel about that one. Maybe a bit underwhelmed. It doesn't seem extraordinarily warm or livable. I think the concept of intersecting archetypal house forms was stronger than the realization of it. It's a bit of a reach functionally, which is a shame because they've done some outstanding housing in the past. It looked better in model form.

 

[Reborn]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

I'm not sure how I feel about that one. Maybe a bit underwhelmed. It doesn't seem extraordinarily warm or livable. I think the concept of intersecting archetypal house forms was stronger than the realization of it. It's a bit of a reach functionally, which is a shame because they've done some outstanding housing in the past. It looked better in model form.

I don't think it's a house. I believe it is a showroom and I think it functions pretty well for displaying various themes and layouts.

 

[StephenHero]

I'm under the impression that the entire project is a series of experimental housing prototypes that make up this new village. I thought theirs was to function as a showroom temporarily until the entire complex was built and it become a multi-unit housing building, but maybe I'm wrong on that.

 

[StephenHero]

Nevermind. Not a village. Just a conceptual living campus. I'm getting it mixed up with another project that has different housing prototypes, Ordos 100. Herzog & deMeuron selected 100 firms to build experimental houses.

I haven't heard anything about it recently though.

 

[zorglubb]

Casa G(summerhouse) by Guðmundur Jónsson
On these photos the lawn is not finished.

 

[otc]

Originally Posted by Reborn

I don't think it's a house. I believe it is a showroom and I think it functions pretty well for displaying various themes and layouts.

Yeah, that quantity of chairs points toward display/showroom/museum

It is also kind of scary how many of those different chairs are owned by me or my family (albeit the danish side of my family).

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by zorglubb

Casa G(summerhouse) by Guðmundur Jónsson
On these photos the lawn is not finished.

This is to architecture as Perry Ellis is to fashion.

 

[Dakota rube]

WTF is with the sheep?
And the armchairs overlooking the tub?

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

WTF is with the sheep?
And the armchairs overlooking the tub?

They look like Claude Lalanne sheep sculptures:

 

[gomestar]

some random stuff to post for fun:

H&dM

One firm built this forgettable UES building:

While one block away another responded with this:

Stephanie Goto:

 

[onion]

This is pretty awesome: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat...nic-tokyo.html

The wooden doors do not open, instead the walls do.

 

[hypersonic]

Originally Posted by Reborn

I don't think it's a house. I believe it is a showroom and I think it functions pretty well for displaying various themes and layouts.

Originally Posted by otc

Yeah, that quantity of chairs points toward display/showroom/museum

It is also kind of scary how many of those different chairs are owned by me or my family (albeit the danish side of my family).



It is part of the HQ complex of the Swiss furniture company Vitra. It is situated in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

 

[StephenHero]

oh shoot.

 

[StephenHero]

Nouvel's new National Museum of Qatar

First impression: I want to like it, but it's excessively wasteful and purposeless. But there might be some really great interior spaces I'm missing.

 

[LabelKing]

It is for the Middle East so excessively wasteful is rather appropriate.