Zaha Hadid's Architecture Foundation HQ: new images revealed

This architecture reminds me of the Stata Building on the MIT campus. It's disorienting to pass:

Yes, Jane, I do.

Sometimes I long for the days of plain brick buildings.

Call me old fashioned.

Gus, like this one?

For once I agree.

I am more used to these type

That's not bad all. How about this one?

...more like these littlek

Beautiful, CJ

Yeah, I love the brownstones of Manhattan - especially Harlem has
some that get restored beautifully.

That is lovely - such a richness. I'm guessing that was taken at sunset.

A Washington Post article about Hadid's buildings (pros and cons) ---

Zaha Hadid, HERE

I love the good old buildings too. Ooh, off to get a few images..

Well, I could spend all day at this, better stop with these few brick buildings....


a bit of Bologna -
source - http://www.itwg.com/img/city/bologna345.jpg


Louis Sullivan's Farmer's Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota
source - http://www.tape.net/~gerry/sullivan/owatonna/bank1.jpg


Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
source - http://www.bartonmalow.com/images/specialties/historic/monticello/monticello.jpg

Give me old elegant buildings anytime.

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In contrast. the ugliest tower on earth is the Olympic tower in Montreal. It was finished eleven years after the Olympics and has never been useful for anything. It has cost the taxpayers a ton of money.
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Any tower that is not built vertically is ugly. 45 degrees is even uglier.
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http://www.geocities.com/thetropics/cabana/3953/99/tower.html

That indeed is an unusual design, detano.

When I see those ultramodern buildings I am always reminded
of the "Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.

It was designed by an arrogant and incompetent French architect. It never functioned as planned.

This is an extraordinary city hall. Powerful and elegant, it is watched by the 'Archer', a huge sculpture by Henry Moore.
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http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/revell/revell.html
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http://www.toronto.ca/city_hall_tour/archer.htm

That is good looking. Wonder if it works as a wind tunnel at the narrow part between the buildings.. well, I guess that might depend on the direction the wind usually come from. There were two towers in Century City (Los Angeles) that turned out to be real whippersnappers..

This is my favourite tall building. That city also has the most beautiful modern bridges.
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Click on the right for more fine pictures.
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http://flickr.com/photos/supermietzi/117642608/

Since this thread started originally about new modern architecture in London...

London's Tate Gallery is to expanded by 60 per cent with the addition of a gigantic glass pyramid, the gallery reported Tuesday.

The futuristic extension, totalling 23,000 square metres over 11 storeys, is to be designed by Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron at a cost of 215 million pounds (399 million dollars). It is due for completion by the Olympic Games in London in 2012.

The added exhibition space in the glass pyramid, that will tower over the original Tate building, is meant to keep pace with the growing interest in modern art, said Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota.

realted report at Times-online: Tate Modern unveils £215 million ziggurat extension

Pictures from the (London) Evening Standard, West End Final, pages 7 and 38 & 39: