buildings, next level

[Jorge Hache]

I personally dig this...and it's only a block from my work (You can see my hotel in the first pic...the one with the pyramid on the roof...W Hotel, Seattle:

a.s.

Yes it's an interesting building, to know more about it i recommend the monograph published by Actar, from design process to the completition of the building, a comprehensive document of the OMA's work.

[droogist]

you're both correct, in a way
it's VPRO's archives in Hilversum, by Neutelings Riedijk

You're right, of course. MVRDV did the VPRO offices, Neutelings Riedijk the archives. Somehow I got that image mixed up between the two.

Sorry about that! I hate spreading disinformation (almost as much as I hate being wrong). :(

[mesko]

St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo.
Places of worship seem to be more frequently epic than other building types.

[dolochov]

Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein

[mesko]

Vitra Fire Station in Weil Am Rhein

I've made a qualitative structural analysis of that pointy roof. It's very interestingly constructed. The attachment to the rest of the building is a joint axis, preventing the concrete from cracking. Also, it gets thinner towards the outer edge, placing the center of gravity above the pillars, some of which are tilted to prevent horizontal movement. And so forth.

Zaha Hadid designed this by the way. It resembles her train station in Strasbourg:

[mw000]

Zaha Hadid does some amazing work.

One of my favorites is the Guggenheim Bilbao by Gehry




For classic residential architecture, I love John Lautner.

The Goldstein house is one of my favorites

[mw000]

If the dynamic towers in Dubai ever get completed those will be a sight to see




Burj Al Arab is pretty amazing still

[renn]

SANAA - Rolex Learning Center

amazing recent work

[Faust]

If the dynamic towers in Dubai ever get completed those will be a sight to see




Burj Al Arab is pretty amazing still

Have you been reading the news in the past few days?

[YoungM]

Wow, thanks for posting pictures of that last church - it's really gorgeous.

Also, lulz at Dubai not being able to pay its debts.

[pipcleo]

I hope this kind of atrocity never happens again being just a product of oil-money. The structural foundations of this shit are a bad joke.

Don't get me started on those towers...at least gaetano pesce slipped his clever humour in his rotational tower proposal years ago




some utzon to balance it





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Dubai, the sewer for architecture without a vestige of merit....
Wire thanks for rescuing this thread from the mire of superficial fashion shit submitted here
...always liked cedric prices drawings

[swych]

next level church thread.

[xESS]

New Norwegian opera house in Oslo.







Not sure if this is "next level", but posting it anyway!

[swych]

Grafton Architects, Universita Luigi Boccioni. Milan.

It's my recent favourite in the massive/ monolothic category

[diamonds]

Wow, the way the light moves across the ceiling and through the room is just stunning.

Churches always have the most amazing architecture. I guess it's habit.