Author Topic: Fantastic Architecture. (Read 11985 times)

Corkboy · « **Reply #120 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:00:38 pm »

Quote from: Degs on April 24, 2008, 10:57:27 pm

More Barca, Park Guell is brilliant.

Me and Mrs Corkboy developed the Target Acquisition style of tourism in Barcelona.

Taxi, Gaudi, beer, tapas. Repeat as necessary. Splendid time.

Degs · « **Reply #121 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:01:40 pm »

Quote from: Hot Cross Bun on April 24, 2008, 11:01:21 pm

Would you class this as architecture?

No, sculpture.

Corkboy · « **Reply #122 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:02:10 pm »

Quote from: Hot Cross Bun on April 24, 2008, 11:01:21 pm

Would you class this as architecture?

No. It's just a big statue.

Hot Cross Bun · « **Reply #123 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:02:43 pm »

Quote from: Degs on April 24, 2008, 11:01:40 pm

No, sculpture.

Thought so. Still fantastic though.

Ray K · « **Reply #124 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:03:40 pm »

I like Norman Foster's work - probably the definitive british architect of the late 20C.

I particularly like his Hearst Tower in NYC, where he uses the original sandstone facade as a base to house the skyscraper itself.

Alan_X · « **Reply #125 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:09:19 pm »

Quote from: rk8386 on April 24, 2008, 11:03:40 pm

I like Norman Foster's work - probably the definitive british architect of the late 20C.

I particularly like his Hearst Tower in NYC, where he uses the original sandstone facade as a base to house the skyscraper itself.

I'd best stay out of this thread... probably his worst building... ever. Crass and over scaled. It's a "first year project"... a half-backed concept - poorly realised and a waste of a great building (the original sandstone building).

Jonathan Hall ☆☆☆☆☆☆ · « **Reply #126 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:11:14 pm »

Santa Maria Del Mar in Born, Barcelona. Flame in foreground is Fossar de les Moreres and commemorates those who died in a siege of Barcelona in the 1700's.

Mind top pic is best seen from

whilst drinking wine

Sarge · « **Reply #127 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:14:05 pm »

Quote from: Alan_F on April 24, 2008, 10:44:24 pm

I stayed in a hotel overlooking it while the frame was going up and thought it looked awful then. Complication doesn't make it good. It's a shit concept, poorly executed and critically slated. He took the MicroSoft dollar and turned out a second-rate pile of wank...

Just my opinion of course...

o not hold back now Alan let your honest feelikng on it come out.

Alan_X · « **Reply #128 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:16:10 pm »

Quote from: Sarge on April 24, 2008, 11:14:05 pm

o not hold back now Alan let your honest feelikng on it come out.

I think it's the bottle of red I've just necked that's speaking...

Corkboy · « **Reply #129 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:18:20 pm »

Quote from: Texas Reds Fan on April 24, 2008, 01:50:12 am

Also:

Ever since I saw this today, I've been humming Simon and Garfunkel, So Long Frank Lloyd Wright.

So, I went to get it on youtube, and the first search result is this, a montage of FLW works, set to the eponymous song. Lovely.

Okkervil · « **Reply #130 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:19:29 pm »

Quote from: corkboy on April 24, 2008, 10:57:00 pm

Thumping. Where is it?

North Kensington, London

Its Brutalism at its finest.

Ray K · « **Reply #131 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:20:56 pm »

Quote from: Alan_F on April 24, 2008, 11:09:19 pm

I'd best stay out of this thread... probably his worst building... ever. Crass and over scaled. It's a "first year project"... a half-backed concept - poorly realised and a waste of a great building (the original sandstone building).

Completely disagree Alan.

One of Foster's strengths is that he can marry old and new architecture- like in the Reichstag, without being completely beholden to creating new forms, like Gehry (and to a certain extent Calatrava).

Its flamboyant, and a lot of people wont like it, but its built for the company founded by William Randolph Hearst, who knew something about the value of publicity

Okkervil · « **Reply #132 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:23:36 pm »

Quote from: rk8386 on April 24, 2008, 11:03:40 pm

I like Norman Foster's work - probably the definitive british architect of the late 20C.

I particularly like his Hearst Tower in NYC, where he uses the original sandstone facade as a base to house the skyscraper itself.

Always a building that has brought out confilciting feelings in me. There are parts of it i like, and certain lines that are very nice. But somehow for me it just doesnt quite work.

Devastatin' Dave · « **Reply #133 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:37:29 pm »

Simple, but effective.

Cruiser · « **Reply #134 on:** April 24, 2008, 11:50:37 pm »

The Burj Al Arab

El Campeador · « **Reply #135 on:** April 25, 2008, 01:32:08 am »

Zakim Bridge, Boston

Raul! · « **Reply #136 on:** April 25, 2008, 02:54:27 am »

If bridges are allowed, the French do them rather well

Pont du Normandie

The utterly spectacular Millau Bridge (Norman Foster)

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #137 on:** April 25, 2008, 06:15:30 am »

Quote from: Okkervil on April 24, 2008, 10:49:32 pm

Also (and i realise that this isnt everyones cup of tea!) but Goldfinger's Trellick Tower is an awesome building.

This is definitely not my cup of tea (is it the one in northish westish London, if so I've got a friend who lives there and I've actually been in the dreadful place)- didn't know about Golfinger connection. However it is only surpassed, in my opinion, in its grotesqueness by the Black Lubianka in Colliers Wood - this photo doesn't do it justice.

ThisIsMickey · « **Reply #138 on:** April 25, 2008, 08:27:16 am »

borobudur

I felt so small standing on top of it

prambanan

louvre

and this

Ycuzz · « **Reply #139 on:** April 25, 2008, 09:47:53 am »

Great thread.

At work atm, gonna do some digging and post some later. (This deserves to be done right).

Oh, and I'm happy the works of Santiago Calatrava has been mentioned, genius of a man.

Ben S · « **Reply #140 on:** April 25, 2008, 09:52:43 am »

Can't beleive noone has mentioned Betham Manchester. Thats Fantastic, fantastically shite.

Raul! · « **Reply #141 on:** April 25, 2008, 09:59:04 am »

The Hawa Mahal or Palace of Wind, Jaipur, India.

ThisIsMickey · « **Reply #142 on:** April 25, 2008, 10:00:10 am »

Quote from: Raul. on April 25, 2008, 09:59:04 am

The Hawa Mahal or Palace of Wind, Jaipur, India.

that's amazing!

Raul! · « **Reply #143 on:** April 25, 2008, 10:02:58 am »

Quote from: ThisIsMickey on April 25, 2008, 10:00:10 am

that's amazing!

Nice, no? Here's a view from the other, street side.

dobbouk · « **Reply #144 on:** April 25, 2008, 10:12:24 am »

Quote from: DAVO1 on April 24, 2008, 08:08:20 pm

North western Hall

not a bad place to live really is it!

Ben S · « **Reply #145 on:** April 25, 2008, 10:35:58 am »

Quote from: dobbouk on April 25, 2008, 10:12:24 am

not a bad place to live really is it!

Looks like a shitehole to be honest, should a grand hotel should never have been allowed to become student halls.

NatD · « **Reply #146 on:** April 25, 2008, 10:46:37 am »

Humber Bridge - awesome site

The Reichstag: -

Fosters Dome in the Reichstag: -

Kunsthaus in Austria: -

Duomo Milan: -

jooneyisdagod · « **Reply #147 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:09:08 am »

The Blue Mosque in Afghanistan. Was watching Journeys to the end of the Earth on Travel and Living the other day and I was astounded by its beauty. A place like this deserves to be more well known.

Sarge · « **Reply #148 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:17:02 am »

A few older but well worth their place in any fine buildings.

Sarge · « **Reply #149 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:18:11 am »

Sarge · « **Reply #150 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:18:59 am »

dobbouk · « **Reply #151 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:27:08 am »

Quote from: Ben S on April 25, 2008, 10:35:58 am

Looks like a shitehole to be honest, should a grand hotel should never have been allowed to become student halls.

we take good care of it! definitely the best student halls around! no-one else gets the view we do!

.adam · « **Reply #152 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:54:22 am »

Hoping to visit Petra next year - should be amazing.

Pata · « **Reply #153 on:** April 25, 2008, 11:57:27 am »

A bit of Chrissie Wren here, Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford

And the whole place:

Pata · « **Reply #154 on:** April 25, 2008, 12:03:40 pm »

Quote from: .adam on April 25, 2008, 11:54:22 am

Hoping to visit Petra next year - should be amazing.

It's awesome!
Also, don't miss the Monastery there:

Sarge · « **Reply #155 on:** April 25, 2008, 12:46:43 pm »

That is indeed some piece of work .

Helsinki Red · « **Reply #156 on:** April 25, 2008, 01:11:25 pm »

Pont Du Gard

Kop4 · « **Reply #157 on:** April 25, 2008, 03:14:01 pm »

Quote from: rk8386 on April 24, 2008, 11:03:40 pm

I like Norman Foster's work - probably the definitive british architect of the late 20C.

I particularly like his Hearst Tower in NYC, where he uses the original sandstone facade as a base to house the skyscraper itself.

I have not seen the builing close up in this context, and while it may not work for some, it does prove that even in NYC, a building does not have to be huge to make an impact (at least that applies to the top bit!).

Kop4 · « **Reply #158 on:** April 25, 2008, 03:23:42 pm »

Talking of buildings that don't have to be huge to make an impact, I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Oriel Chambers right here in Liverpool.

It may be fairly unassuming what it is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential buildings not just in Liverpool, but in the world.

It was designed by Peter Ellis and was universally condemned --- for having too much glass!

Anybody care to put a date on it without Googling it?

Dr. Beaker · « **Reply #159 on:** April 25, 2008, 03:41:25 pm »

Hang your head in shame Sarge for not posting the Skelligs - Ireland's very own Macchu Picchu.
If any of you out there have not been to this place, get it rectified. It does stand comparison with MP in it's way - a truly magical and historically significant place and I'm just amazed I can't find a picture that does it anything like justice.