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StephenHero · Mar 4, 2010

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 · Mar 5, 2010

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 · Mar 5, 2010

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 · Mar 5, 2010

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.

ordos-villa-by-estudio-barozzi-veiga-squsud-ejecuci_n-final.jpg

I haven't heard anything about it recently though.

zorglubb · Mar 5, 2010

Casa G(summerhouse) by GuÃ°mundur JÃ³nsson
On these photos the lawn is not finished.

otc · Mar 5, 2010

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 · Mar 5, 2010

Originally Posted by zorglubb

Casa G(summerhouse) by GuÃ°mundur JÃ³nsson
On these photos the lawn is not finished.

This is to architecture as Perry Ellis is to fashion.

Dakota rube · Mar 5, 2010

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

LabelKing · Mar 5, 2010

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

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

They look like Claude Lalanne sheep sculptures:

gomestar · Mar 10, 2010

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 · Mar 11, 2010

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

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

hypersonic · Mar 12, 2010

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 · Mar 14, 2010

oh shoot.

StephenHero · Mar 25, 2010

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 · Mar 25, 2010

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

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