architecture appreciation thread

[Adre]

Art critics are assholes. Every single one of them.

We're all critics. It's just that most of us don't have newspaper columns.

 

[thør]

Not a tremendous amount of interesting architecture up this way. Most is utilitarian at best. The entrance to the Nullagvik Hotel in Kotzebue has a nice cover over the main entry that looks like a stored umiak (skin boat).

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/90/48/31/filename-nullagvik-front.jpg

 

[KRCummings]

We're all critics. It's just that most of us don't have newspaper columns.

I was counting everyone with or without a column. Myself included.

 

[pete]

Not a tremendous amount of interesting architecture up this way. Most is utilitarian at best. The entrance to the Nullagvik Hotel in Kotzebue has a nice cover over the main entry that looks like a stored umiak (skin boat).

nothing wrong with utilitarian structures, they're doing the job they were made for and i'm sure their occupants appreciate the hell out of them

 

[remy_lebeau8]

Art critics are assholes. Every single one of them.

I agree. Art is such a vast medium that no one should be able to judge it. The phrase "that's not art" shouldn't exist. I feel the same way about music.

As far as architecture, I have a soft spot for the farnsworth house, probably because I spent a semester in college going from rough sketches to a foam model of the damn thing

 

[Laurel]

Never made up my mind on that. Artistically it's great but it's a little overdone.

It's romantic, I think. And really sits well on that corner where you can see it across the river.

 

[Laurel]

Antoni Gaudí's "Sagrada Família" - never finished, but weird beyond weird. Another must-see-before-dying

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7eam6s4rRUs/TEZfTLz7TAI/AAAAAAAACo8/R3F1i0OkY28/s1600/259_SagradaFamilia_1%5B1%5D.jpg

http://culturemaking.typepad.com/main/images/2008/02/08/gaudi10.png

http://lloydi.com/travel-writing/barcelona/images/sagrada-familia.jpg

 

[KRCummings]

It's romantic, I think. And really sits well on that corner where you can see it across the river.

I have never been to Prague so I've never seen it in person. I would like to, I think.

 

[thør]

nothing wrong with utilitarian structures, they're doing the job they were made for and i'm sure their occupants appreciate the hell out of them

No shit. Yet, it's does get boring.

 

[pete]

It's romantic, I think. And really sits well on that corner where you can see it across the river.

i'm sure it's the sort of structure that's better appreciated in person.

it's probably the kind of thing to make a boring city a little better

 

[KRCummings]

Antoni Gaudí's "Sagrada Família" - never finished, but weird beyond weird. Another must-see-before-dying

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7eam6s4rRUs/TEZfTLz7TAI/AAAAAAAACo8/R3F1i0OkY28/s1600/259_SagradaFamilia_1%5B1%5D.jpg

http://culturemaking.typepad.com/main/images/2008/02/08/gaudi10.png

http://lloydi.com/travel-writing/barcelona/images/sagrada-familia.jpg

I always thought that looked like an abandoned set from a Conan movie.
Not that it's bad but it is the impression I get from it.
A difficult structure to form an opinion on.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

Antoni Gaudí's "Sagrada Família" - never finished, but weird beyond weird. Another must-see-before-dying

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7eam6s4rRUs/TEZfTLz7TAI/AAAAAAAACo8/R3F1i0OkY28/s1600/259_SagradaFamilia_1%5B1%5D.jpg

http://culturemaking.typepad.com/main/images/2008/02/08/gaudi10.png

http://lloydi.com/travel-writing/barcelona/images/sagrada-familia.jpg

Isnt that made of shells or coral or somethin like that?

 

[Adre]

I have never been to Prague so I've never seen it in person. I would like to, I think.

Yes, go to Prague. It is lovely.

 

[Laurel]

Another Gaudi - Casa Batllo. Interiors are wacky! Wanna see this too.

http://www.spainted.com/images/Casa-Batllo.jpg

https://www.google.com/search?q=casa+batllo&safe=off&hl=en&rlz=1G1SNJB_ENJP450&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgz4HsxC7fq6-QWWSgRKYkVdmqSUZkFpUnJ8Xkh9cUlSaXFJalOqSWpyZnpea0qa2o6XxzJ836Xf8k2xmbZ07Y2vkHwCZ0LW0TAAAAA&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=mmftUZCoN9CqkgX-xYD4AQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1228&bih=882#facrc=_&imgdii=z48wTFkjBEWjpM%3A%3BDWTvGdKA5YrUdM%3Bz48wTFkjBEWjpM%3A&imgrc=z48wTFkjBEWjpM%3A%3BhswMszN-YHnYeM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.spainted.com%252Fimages%252FCasa-Batllo.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.spainted.com%252Fbarcelona%252FCasa-Batllo%252F%3B466%3B622

http://partialsight.com/images/20061104223236_pict2841%20edit%20web2.jpg

http://www.roarhitect.ro/fisiere/image/articole/casa%20batllo%2010.jpg

 

[KRCummings]

Yes, go to Prague. It is lovely.

Prague is the kind of place you have to target. You don't end up there by accident or through a journey to someplace else. At least I never have and I've been a lot of places. Have considered going but it's not real high on my list of places I've never been. Possibly some day.

 

[pete]

http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/images/int/albums/gaudi-casa-batllo/images/gaudi-casa-batllo-04_jpg.jpg
casa batllo, barcelona spain (gaudi)

always loved gaudi's work, if i ever make my way over to spain his buildings will be the main things to see

as far as the sagrada familia, i like it it looks like a living, breathing version of a monet cathedral painting

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Frank Lloyld...ahead of his time


https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSm1nWfpifQo9E4b7VsYfn-lgedwDO6DhYwFJbW_wqdKTglycnl

http://gowright.org/uploads/images/home/slideshow/slideshow-hs.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOz4taCnc6kMibEZNF-2BiNYgV7R8vFgWceCksH21pv65pxAmunQ

 

[Adre]

Prague is the kind of place you have to target. You don't end up there by accident or through a journey to someplace else. At least I never have and I've been a lot of places. Have considered going but it's not real high on my list of places I've never been. Possibly some day.

I agree. I was lucky to have business there, so my company paid. But as it was almost untouched by WWII, it is a remarkable old European city.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Now here's some good architecture: The Harold Washington Library in Chicago, by Hammond, Beeby:

http://www.dailyherald.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DA&Date=20110128&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=701289887&Ref=AR&updated=&maxw=1024&maxh=1024

And the Main Library in Jacksonville, Florida, by Robert A.M. Stern:

http://www.aiaflatop100.org/images/382.gif

 

[KRCummings]

http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/images/int/albums/gaudi-casa-batllo/images/gaudi-casa-batllo-04_jpg.jpg
casa batllo, barcelona spain (gaudi)

always loved gaudi's work, if i ever make my way over to spain his buildings will be the main things to see

as far as the sagrada familia, i like it it looks like a living, breathing version of a monet cathedral painting

Very organic. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

 

[Laurel]

Prague is really beautiful, like a fairy tale town. The video for INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart" (linkie!) was shot there and really captures autun/wintertime in Prague, I think. Summers are nice and bright. Not a whole lot to do, though.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Frank Lloyld...ahead of his time

If it's ahead of your time to design homes not much good for living in. I've read bad things about FallingWater. (Read them in How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, by Stewart Brand.)

 

[thør]

Just at the Arctic Circle in Russia:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/532414_2259168854350_1385975132_n.jpg
Lukoil

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/396769_2259442501191_488763875_n.jpg
A young children's school (kindergarten) under construction.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/314874_2259438261085_1555014149_n.jpg
New apartments. Much nicer than the old soviet style.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/555478_2262135168506_1677954671_n.jpg
Under construction.

 

[Laurel]

Just rewatched that video and wow does 80s fashion not age well. Wanna take big scissors to Michael Hutchence's hair.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

http://www.kfntravelguide.com/images/thumbs/0011078.jpeg

Simple, classic, elegant design.

I walk by this a million times.

And it still never fails to impress the mind.