Architecture (merged)

[Ginn & Juice]

I hear ya...Prolly constructed in Mr. Boysel's Advanced Woodshop class

 

[Thump]

I hear ya...Prolly constructed in Mr. Boysel's Advanced Woodshop class

You beat me to it, I was just getting ready to type that!!

 

[Ginn & Juice]

How about this picture

 

[Buckeye Buh Nim]

Thump,
We are heading to Falling Water for our anniversary this year. Nice pic, hear good things about it and the area.

 

[iambrutus]

nice merge! - guess i need to learn about that search feature thinggy -

 

[Folanator]

The Capital Building in Dhurka Bangladesh. I want to see it someday. Built by Luis Kahn. Amazing story. If you have the opportunity rent the movie My Architect by Kahn's son, it is a very interestering doccumentary about Kahn who had three seperate families who lived only miles apart and never knew each other. They all met at his funeral.

 

[OSUsushichic]

IMAX Theater in Valencia, Spain

 

[Folanator]

The coolest house in the world...

Philip Johnson's Glass House

Take a turn round the legendary Modernist architect's life work

When it opens to the public in April 2007, The Glass House will become a major architectural pilgrimage site. In all, eleven structures stretch across the New Canaan, CT land, each one designed or modified by Philip Johnson between 1949 and 1995.

The furnishings inside the buildings have remained almost exactly as Johnson originally arranged them. Although Johnson "liked change," says the site's director of preservation, Marty Skrelunas, "he didn't feel that it was necessary to change everything. The Glass House worked, so he kept it that way." Take a sneak peek here.

 

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[OSUsushichic]

The Usual Suspects

A new list of America's most popular buildings.

By Witold Rybczynski
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007, at 7:22 AM ET

When architects today design new buildings, their clients often hope to achieve what is sometimes called the Bilbao effect, after the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry's titanium building has proven immensely popular, turning an old Spanish industrial city into an international destination for cultural tourism. Since then, scores of starchitects have sought to create similar "signature buildings"?museums, public libraries, performing arts centers?that will not only attract the public, but be instant landmarks. The signatures?Gehry's swirls, Richard Meier's pure white forms, Daniel Libeskind's zigzags?serve as a sort of dramatic shorthand for Important Architecture Here. But have recent signature buildings been as successful as the Guggenheim in attracting the public?

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[FCollinsBuckeye]

 

[Steve19]

Prior to the Empire State Building, the world's fifth tallest building?

 

[Buckeye Buh Nim]

Lion's Den for me.

Man do I have some bad news for you.

The Lions Den on campus is now.....

 

[Steve19]

I really want to get to India. This is one I want to see, the Lotus temple of the Baha'is.

Lotus Temple
Beautifully designed, the Baha'i House of Worship (also known as the Lotus Temple) is built in the shape of a lotus. Its petals constructed in concrete and faced with white marble have an extraordinary lightness. Nine pools of water around the structure add to the illusion of a lotus floating in water.

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

The coolest house in the world...

Few years ago my family and I were going through Conn. on vacation and we stopped at this house, my brother being an architecture student wanted to see it. He went up to the house and the guy who built it screamed at him because he was "trespassing" we didn't even know anyone lived in it. (we had recently come from Falling Water, where no one does live)