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#25 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 29, 2008, 03:49:26 pm
Denver International Airport.  Made and slammed-up by an ex-employer of mine.  I've erected many fabric structures like this, perhaps not as grand, mind.

(Aw-wite soaps me man)

Anyone know Portsmouth?  Helped build this too



It's fairly hard not to like the Guggenheim, isn't it?




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#26 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 29, 2008, 03:59:39 pm
It's fairly hard not to like the Guggenheim, isn't it?

I know. hard to put into words why though. Just the sheer audacity of it?

I lile the look of that Kunsthaus in Graz. Looks like an alien heart. Or something.

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#27 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 29, 2008, 04:16:34 pm

The Friendly Alien as its endearingly known by its admirers.


That's really cool and reminds me of the Allianz Arena........







Watched a World Cup game there and it was just as impressive on the inside - crap picture taken on my crap phone.......





Better picture.....






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#28 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 29, 2008, 04:23:13 pm
Ah I've a soft spot for areni, arenae, arenas?  Stadia!  The Allianz is a stunner.  So is their old stadium, which I like more, really I do.

This is round the corner from me.  I built this too (just the roof) (look @ me) this doesn't show how awsome its curves are.



9 months on that fuckin' roof . . .

*holds head and weeps*

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#29 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 29, 2008, 06:27:29 pm
I did a job in that building fiend , launch of some crappy car , and it is totally breathtaking  ...... Same architect transformed a very mundane sports stadium in Athens into summat amazing .....

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#30 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 12:03:41 am
I believe Paul and Fiend are talking about the work of Santiago Calatrava, who has been a fave of mine for many years. He's done some pretty special bridges/airports/train stations over the years. If it looks like its heavily influenced by bones and skeletons it's probably his work (or ripped off from his work like many bridges) I also completely agree on the Gugg in Bilbao, I remember walking around there thinking it cost half as much as the Millenium Dome.  :'(
SC did the footbridge near the Gugg in Bibao, but not the ones in Manchester and Newcastle that are rip offs.

My favorites of SC's:
Bridge in Spain, Seville I think

Footbridge in Bilbao near the Gugg

lyon Airport Train Station

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#31 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 10:08:12 am
Mies van der Rohe.

The Farnsworth House, Illinois



The Barcelona Pavillion (the German contribution)




Lived to 83 on a diet of cognac and cigars did Mies.

A slightly more esoteric offering by the recently deceased Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona:

Torres del Parque, Bogota







Nicely proportioned geometries in red brick. 



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#32 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 10:23:10 am
I don't know who designed this, and care less, it's the scene of my last windowcleaning job.  Fucking terrifying when you've been issued w/ a worn STOP (AKA GO) only rated for 100m or is it (150?) drops . . .

It's huge.

Beetham Tower, Brum c.200m



Ugly as sin, why must it be this way?

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#33 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 10:42:43 am
Torre Mayor Mexico City.

Not very exciting, but wins cool points for being earthquake resistant.



The overlapping diamonds you can just about see are giant dampeners.

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#34 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 05:45:45 pm
I like the organic fairytale mess of the Austrian, Hundertwasser







And Bahnhof Uelzen, which I use regularly



The detail is throughout



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#35 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 06:22:01 pm
I don't know who designed this, and care less, it's the scene of my last windowcleaning job.  Fucking terrifying when you've been issued w/ a worn STOP (AKA GO) only rated for 100m or is it (150?) drops . . .

It's huge.

Beetham Tower, Brum c.200m



Ugly as sin, why must it be this way?

When they built that, one of the workman dropped one of the huge pieces of glass as they were lifting it into place. The result was the town centre was gridlocked for hours.

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#36 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 06:29:22 pm
obi - re the bridges...

that's a bit unfair re rip-offs. wilkinson eyre (who did the one in newcastle, not sure about manchester) have been designing bridges for years. their canary wharf one is semi-ancient.

i did an interview with them ages ago, and got presented with a pretty spectacular book of their stuff going back to the 80s.

(my crap article never made it to print unfortunately....)

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#37 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 06:31:58 pm
DFM - Yes, I'd heard that fact.

When I was working there, one of the glass-suckers that you use to keep yourself in position broke from a cow's tail and plummeted to the pavement below.  A desperate situation to find oneself in as only a 2m distance from the building into the wide pavement could be cordoned-off.  A pointless token gesture, especially as without two suckers attached to a pane the ropeworker can get blown round the entire building - which has happened on that structure.  The weather below means nothing at 200m.  In access, kit gets dropped, it's an unfortunate fact that comes w/ the territory.

Most terrifying few 100 sheets I've taken.

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#38 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 06:45:06 pm
"Can't you put your karabiners on lanyards?"  :lol:

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#39 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 06:45:56 pm
Anyone else stumped?

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#40 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 07:00:34 pm
Anyone else stumped?

by
"Can't you put your karabiners on lanyards?"  :lol:
?

It's the daft question which has been asked of me by nervous building managers whilst I have outlined method statements/risk assessments (when I did access work); when they refused to accept that stuff can get dropped.

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#41 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 30, 2008, 08:33:58 pm
that's a bit unfair re rip-offs. wilkinson eyre (who did the one in newcastle, not sure about manchester) have been designing bridges for years. their canary wharf one is semi-ancient.
1997 according to their website, Calatrava designed the 'harp' bridge in 1987. Sorry if I sounded harsh Yoss, I'm not knocking WilkinsonEyre or any decent practices that push out original work rather than the choss we ususally have. I don't doubt they have done some superb work, but Calatrava was doing ground breaking work a full decade before many of his competitors/copiers. Did you ever see his design for the Thames crossing? Can't currently find a pic of it. If only we had the guts to commission work like than instead of spending £800m on a tent.

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#42 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 08:34:13 pm
Modern classic: Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany.



Interior



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#43 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 08:49:12 pm
I've seen this in the flesh - it's amazing!


(I was there building Wolfsburg FCs stadium - I get around w/ those stadia. . .)
« Last Edit: January 31, 2008, 08:56:16 pm by Houdini, Reason: typo »

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#44 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 08:52:29 pm
Modern classic: Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany.



I wonder how much embodied energy is in all that concrete!

That lost out to my airport I couldn't find...for that award I couldn't remember

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#45 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 08:54:35 pm
Modern classic: Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg, Germany.




Wow!

reminds me of 2000ad




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#46 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 08:57:53 pm
Aye Paul, not exactly sustainable, but by the same token it doesn't look like it's destined for anywhere other than the year 50,000!

Wait til you see my windsurfing/landyacht scheme, Zaha can eat shit!

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#47 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 09:12:54 pm
I had a dream last night that I was assessing the structural geology of the area where Heysham Power Station used to be so they could build the world's biggest nuclear power station in place of it. Ignoring my advice telling them it would fall down, they proceeded to build the world's tallest building, complete with 7 nuclear reactors, one atop of another, with office blocks attached to the structural supports of the reactors. It was a stunning building, with 4 double-helixes supporting it in each corner of a square, and they had to build a crane on top with the longest steel cable in the world on it (this probably isn't true but it seemed it in my dream)

Then I woke up.

I always wondered if the arete of the sea life centre in hull would go. Brutally steep glass DWS anyone?

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#48 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 09:58:13 pm
That lost out to my airport I couldn't find...for that award I couldn't remember

Stirling Prize 06, Barajas airport by Richard Rogers was the one you had in mind I think.

(Nerd Stirling Prize fact-named after James Stirling who studied at Liverpool 1945-50, and let me tell you, the department has named every room, toilet and sink after him.)

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#49 Re: A r c h i t e c t u r e
January 31, 2008, 10:01:05 pm
Hope they have A Sterling Effort written in silver on the bog door . . .

 

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