buildings, next level

[thehouseofdis]

not so coincidentally demeulemeester resides in maison guiette,the only work of le corbusier in belgium i believe. [x]

Yeah, you are correct. Here's a photo I took of her house and atelier last year.

[thehouseofdis]

SANAA - Rolex Learning Center

amazing recent work

Here's another great building by SANAA that most people on here should recognize.


I took this in 2007

[swami]

While not quite next level , Would love to know what the resident architects think of this?

[Heirloom]

i find it interesting there are so many exterior shots in this thread. I've always thought architecture was the experience of a building from the inside.

[thehouseofdis]

i find it interesting there are so many exterior shots in this thread. I've always thought architecture was the experience of a building from the inside.

I think part of this is due to the fact that some places discourage people from taking photographs and other spaces are private.

I've worked at a lot of architectural firms, and while I assume it's not the case in most the pictured building here, a lot of architects treat the interior of the building as an afterthought.

A good designer should create functional spaces with a cohesion between the exterior and interior of a building with form and materials.

[tweeds]

favourite thing about the Maison Guiette when i visited (or, stood outside and gawked) - the way it's now integrated into and juxtaposed against the typical mitred corner block and the extension in the middle, connected by the vegetation...

[thehouseofdis]

I really like how the ivy changes the façade of these buildings as well. I also like how Ann's atelier (center building) compliments but doesn't mimic or detract from the original Corbusier structure.

I also like that pigeons were caught in the frame of this photo.

[whitney]

inside shots, not to crazy about the bed spread, lamp and chair, etc. but i think if you strip it down the overall design is pretty neat, incorporating cabinets into stairs..

[thehouseofdis]

whitney, where is this house?

the lamp and chair (as well as the porcelain in the cabinet) are by dutch designers. the bed spread has to go.

[diamonds]

its kind of weird, in that it's weird to design a house that NEEDS so many stairs. It's very cool from the outside though.

[whitney]

whitney, where is this house?

the lamp and chair (as well as the porcelain in the cabinet) are by dutch designers. the bed spread has to go.

vals, adjacent to peter zumthor's thermal bath,

its kind of weird, in that it's weird to design a house that NEEDS so many stairs. It's very cool from the outside though.

i dunno about you but thats how i excerise!

[BBYY]

[mesko]

Regarding the Turning Torso in Malmö:

Agreed. Apart from showing inferior visual qualities, it really fails to represent (and fit into) the city of Malmö.

i find it interesting there are so many exterior shots in this thread. I've always thought architecture was the experience of a building from the inside.

Well, that is debatable, but I'd say it is very much a mixture. Answering your question, though, is the first post of this thread:

I'm not sure if we have any proper architecture threads, the one I recall is more focused on interiors..

Finally, I would like to show you this beautiful "Telephone Tower", located in central Stockholm between 1887 and 1953:







The tower, standing 45 meters tall on a rooftop, is mostly riveted steel beams, and it was used to drag telephone cables to households. From the early 1890's to the 1930's, the cables were relocated underground, and the tower lost it's function, which - along with its publicly perceived ugliness and risk of collapsing due to a fire - led to its demolition.

[swami]

Not next level in terms of design but the location ...

[thaiison]

god i would've enjoyed spending time at that place^