Yes, Daniel.
On the Montevideo... (from mecannoo.com)
now I really like it...
royal ontario museum = we visited there last year .
i filled out a questionaire and told them NOT to adopt that design
you'd think they would listen , but no ... they go right ahead
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imo they should have chosen a modern design that would 'blend in' with the old , rather than intruding on the old design - looks a bit like a spaceship landed on the ROM .
hbg
I am in the majority with Santiago Calatrava - the turning torso. It just looks cool.
Bit of a tangent - but I just ran across this article about the matter of how to make the connection between an old building and a new/different addition work, kind of what I was getting at about the Royal Ontario Museum addition.... it was the connection that bothered me as I didn't dislike the addition entirely.
This is a Whitney Gould column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=425892
There are a lot of new skyscraper designs in the works.
A post of mine in Walter Hinteler's thread on La Phare (the Lighthouse), has a NY Times article on a skyscraper design for Paris, and one for St. Petersburg, with some photos -
Unibail-Morphosis (photo source)
Thom Mayne's design for the Phare Tower in La Défense, Paris.
THIS POST.
Another NYT Link re the Gazprom project problems
Link from Lord Ellpus on a skyscraper design by Renzo Piano for site by London Bridge
photo from Wikipedia
Article in Chicago Tribune by Blair Kamen on design change for the new Calatrava spire in Chicago (known, it seems, as "the drill bit"
There's a poll with that Tribune link where you can vote for one or the other design -
Hmmm, of all these so far, I like the Shard best.. as seen in the photo on the
http://www.shardlondonbridge.com website (click on A Vertical City)
What do you think??
I'm also one who can't pick the "best" out of that group. I guess I need to see more variety from more places to decide.
I'm also with osso about Chicago arthitecture. There are several I really love in Chicago, because they have "warmth" and style.
Part of the Gazprom project problem article - (see link above for the full article) -
A Russian Skyscraper Plan Divides a Horizontal CityLINK
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds the addition to the Royal Ontario Museum off-putting. It's interesting from a technical point of view; the national news did a story on how it was being built that I enjoyed. I don't think it's going to mesh with the neighbourhood when it's done, though.
More on the change in the Calatrava design for the Chicago skyscaper (some of use took a boat ride past the site for it last May) -
http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/calatravachicago/calatravachicago.htm
Lynn Becker calls the new version the "Licorice Stick"; Kamin said (if I remember correctly) that people are calling it the Drill Bit.
Ah, and here's an interesting blog on the choice, with photos to explain (including the Chrysler Building) -
http://edwardlifson.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-calatrava-design-for-chicago-is-bit.html
Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum
What do you think about this building? It's the Telecommunications Tower, headquarters of ANTEL, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Hi, Hetfield, well, and welcome. What do you think? Like it or hate it, or comments plus or against?
Clean, cool. I rather like it. Makes me do a mental jump to a toned version of Capitol Records in Hollywood, which was not near as sleek.
Let me introduce myself, as an instigator of threads like this, and not the only one. (Walter Hinteler, noinipo, ehBeth, realjohnboy, others with names slipping, and now you.)
I'm not a building architect, but I'm very interested in architecture. I'm a landscape architect, pay attention as I can to site design, urban or regional.
My knowledge is on the shallow/broad side, such as it is. I push for people to say what they think about the built environment, gut likes and dislikes. We who read this at all would be glad to see arguments from both designers and users of places.
Would enjoy seeing architects come on board here with particular points of view. Want to foster talk, a back and forth between design and people who live in it.
My second take on this building is... sleek as it is, I don't know how green it is, and that is a matter gaining more attention in a variety of places, with good reason. Maybe it is sleekly green.
I'm also not That interested, in that it seems a safe corporate design.
I say this at the same time I personally am tired of fulminating titanium exploding near waterways.
How's that for a reaction? are you involved in the building?
Do you like it yourself?
ossobuco wrote:How's that for a reaction? are you involved in the building?
Do you like it yourself?
Yes, and not just the building, which I think it's rather impressive, but once I got to go to the 22nd floor and it has the most amazing view of the sea.
I like that lower wall, the one fiercely pointing.
Why do you like the building? Suppose you had the same view but the building looked different?
Because it's the first of its type. In Montevideo, many old buildings were declared national monuments (which mean it's illegal to tear them down or modify the facade in any way), therefore, a building with this design had never been authorized before since it didn't go with the whole style of the city. Modern architecture is more common in Punta del Este.
Ok, I can see that is both exciting and good for the city, and the building is good looking, even from the point of view of someone from a distance.
As many other cities have dealt with, it is difficult to keep old neighborhoods - which are newly appreciated as the cords of a city, and progressive builders clue in ... going at the same time.
Are you an architecture watcher, or in the building business, or outside of all that?
Looks like they're about to start construction on the Calatrava spire in Chicago -
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed_spire_0627jun27,1,1968501.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
handout illustration via chicagotribune.com
I don't like it, it's too phallic.
I like the Montevideo building better myself...
On the Calatrava building, I'm not sure that is the last design, will have to check. In any case, it's phallic for sure.
On the Montevideo building, I'm not clear what elements in the photo are included in the building site, besides the main building; do you have any other photo links?
