The Architecture Thread

[FlyingMonkey]

Bet there aren't many single-owner FLW houses out there....

Probably two hundred or so.

 

[sugarbutch]

Casa Tiny
Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Aranza de Ariño

 

[brokencycle]

Casa Tiny
Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Aranza de Ariño


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Gives new meaning to concrete jungle.

 

[sugarbutch]

 

[Medwed]

That is a great model for 21C military barracks.

 

[sugarbutch]

Grace Street Live/Work
San Francisco, CA
Veev Design
2016

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I liked the vibrant colours in that place, @sugarbutch . It made me think of the one major issue I have with so many of the houses we see displayed as aspirational architectural models of home design - and I mean here those trying to separate themselves from mass popular taste - which is that they are often so colourless. David Bachelor wrote a really interesting book about this a few years back, called Chromophobia. Here's an article adapted and updated from that book (which I especially like because of the irony of the website name and location...):

http://www.whitenoise.city/articles/chromophobia-david-batchelor

 

[sugarbutch]

I love color and concrete!

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I love color and concrete!

I've visited this place, Hundertwasser's Waldspirale, in Darmstadt, Germany, which is amazing, but may be going a bit too far in that direction...

What might be the most amazing thing of all about this building is that it is public housing...

More here:
http://inhabitat.com/waldspirale-is...tment-with-a-forest-on-top/waldspirale-kuebi/

 

[sugarbutch]

Er, ah...

 

[Medwed]

I 'like' that public housing in Germany has a vague reminiscence of a ******* Bilujistan or Limpopo. Way to go Europe. Make our World the third World!

 

[edinatlanta]

Can Poland's Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/...lights&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront

 

[Medwed]

New development in Bali.
https://atelieralejandroborrego.com/ch-house/l9k6vha961s0ezr3e254upfogartqc

 

[sugarbutch]

Sweet jeebus, I hate architect websites.

 

[erictheobscure]

kieslowski would weep