Modern Villa

[januk]

I like this Modern Villa
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sl&u=http://www.arhivo.com/%3Fmod%3Daktualno%26action%3DviewOne%26ID%3D148&ei=Qq8ESuqoBIiB_Ab-rfSVBw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Darhivo%2Bfluidno%2Boblikovanje%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

How do you like Modern Architecture?

[Mr. Warmth]

I like this Modern Villa

How do you like Modern Architecture?

It sucks

[Matt in the Hat]

I like this Modern Villa
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sl&u=http://www.arhivo.com/%3Fmod%3Daktualno%26action%3DviewOne%26ID%3D148&ei=Qq8ESuqoBIiB_Ab-rfSVBw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Darhivo%2Bfluidno%2Boblikovanje%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG


If this thing looks like this in 5 years and continues to function properly then cool. If not, it's just an exercise in masturbation.

I'm bored with design only architecture that sacrifices both functionality and human sensibility (why comfort is poo pooed by many modern architects/ID's is beyond me). Architecture is not one of the fine arts for a reason. Our shit actually has to work and finish on time and on budget.

How do you like Modern Architecture?

This is like asking how do you like bread. It doesn't make any sense.

[Nacional Tijuana]

I don't like modern architecture in residences, but like it to an extent in other buildings, like UCSD's Geisel Library.

http://unknowninspiration.deviantart.com/art/Long-winding-journey-25175179

[kingkong1]

It sucksA culturally biased point of view.

That's exactly what people in the XXth, XIXth, XVIIIth, XVIIth, XVIth, XVth centuries etc etc thought about their respective architectures.;)


http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6830/towerofbable.jpg
Babel Tower, Babylon, several centuries before Christ

God thought it sucked too.

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PS: Basically not so much different from the building Nacional Tijuana showed us...

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8516/longwindingjourneybyunk.jpg


(right-click on the images & then left-click on 'show image' in order to enlarge them: it's worth it)

[kingkong1]

A culturally biased point of view.

That's exactly what people in the XXth, XIXth, XVIIIth, XVIIth, XVIth, XVth centuries etc etc thought about their respective architectures.;)


http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6830/towerofbable.jpg
Babel Tower, Babylon, several centuries before Christ

God thought it sucked too.

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PS: Basically not so much different from the building Nacional Tijuana showed us...

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8516/longwindingjourneybyunk.jpg


(right-click on the images & then left-click on 'show image' in order to enlarge them: it's worth it)

A funny coincidence is that one was a building during which chaotic construction its workers spoke an infinite number of languages; the other is a...library.

[kingkong1]

As a matter of fact I'm not being able to open the link above posted by Januk:

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sl&u=http://www.arhivo.com/%3Fmod%3Daktualno%26action%3DviewOne%26ID%3D148&ei=Qq8ESuqoBIiB_Ab-rfSVBw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Darhivo%2Bfluidno%2Boblikovanje%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Anybody saved that image?...

I'd like to see how does that 'villa' looks...

[kingkong1]

Babel's Tower 'new' version in Ryad (not extremely far from Babylon, BTW):

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6202/burjdubai1009.jpg

[Toon³]

A culturally biased point of view.

That's exactly what people in the XXth, XIXth, XVIIIth, XVIIth, XVIth, XVth centuries etc etc thought about their respective architectures.;)


Errr no, not really since most people can appreciate architecture from any period if it is beautiful or impressive.

And the Burj Dubai is in Dubai not Riyad.

[kingkong1]

Errr no, not really since most people can appreciate architecture from any period if it is beautiful or impressive.

And the Burj Dubai is in Dubai not Riyad.Errr,

You seem not have read my post in the context of MondayMorningTShirt's one.

Asked if he liked modern architecture, he said:

'It sucks.'

If you're agreeing with him, then you're contradicting yourself by saying that architecture of any period ('if beautiful & impressive') can be appreciated.

What I was stressing - and that you can't deny - is that at any epoch there will be people who refuse the new.

Just because it's new.

And that (a blind refusal of the new) is cultural prejudice.

On the contrary of what you say, the big majority prefers the old & only a minority is really open to new experiments.

The 'mania of the old' is a middle-class phenomenon: a class which has long ago lost its status & wants to symbolically recuperate it through the fetichization of old furniture, statues, paintings, buildings etc.

Specially in young & well-established countries where the European influence is more present.

Most of US states governmental palaces (including the White House), for example, are in the form of Greco-Roman neo-classic buildings.

Nothing more kitsch than that.

At an architectural level that simply reflects the political conservativeness of the country that buildt them.

In spite of its alternative modern architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright's as one of its most expressive examples).

Dubai, not Ryad.:)

[kingkong1]

On the contrary of what you say, the big majority prefers the old & only a minority is really open to new experiments.

The 'mania of the old' is a modern middle-class phenomenon: a class which has long ago lost its status & wants to symbolically recuperate it through the fetishization of old furniture, statues, paintings, buildings etc.

Specially in young & well-established countries where the European influence is more present.

Most of US states governmental palaces (including the White House), for example, are in the form of Greco-Roman neo-classic buildings.

Nothing more kitsch than that.

At an architectural level that simply reflects the political conservativeness of the country that built them.

In spite of having an original modern architecture of its own (Frank Lloyd Wright's as one of the most expressive examples).The Partenon (Ancient Greece, 480 B.C.):

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2574/partenon5.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2574/partenon5.jpg)

The White House (IIIrd millenium USA, 2009 A.D.):

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8791/capitol3.jpg

They had 2 500 years to think of something else.:cool:

[Matt in the Hat]

Babel's Tower 'new' version in Ryad (not extremely far from Babylon, BTW):

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6202/burjdubai1009.jpg

That's Dubai, chief. I'm looking at it right now

[kingkong1]

That's Dubai, chief. I'm looking at it right nowIf you keep looking upwards at the building & not at this thread, you won't be able to read my post #10 (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17699905&postcount=10), in which long time ago I already had rectified that.:rolleyes:

Now, be careful so a 384th store brick doesn't kill you, OK?...

Chief.http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9959/brick.gif

[Toon³]

The Partenon (Ancient Greece, 480 B.C.):

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2574/partenon5.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2574/partenon5.jpg)

The White House (IIIrd millenium USA, 2009 A.D.):

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8791/capitol3.jpg

They had 2 500 years to think of something else.:cool:

That's the Capitol Building, not the White House

[Matt in the Hat]

If you keep looking upwards at the building & not at this thread, you won't be able to read my post #10 (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=17699905&postcount=10), in which long time ago I already had rectified that.:rolleyes:

Now, be careful so a 384th store brick doesn't kill you, OK?...

Chief.http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9959/brick.gif

That's the Capitol Building, not the White House

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x33/sternau/oh_snap_flowchart_sm.jpg

[kingkong1]

The Partenon (Ancient Greece, 480 B.C.):

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2574/partenon5.jpg (http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2574/partenon5.jpg)

The White House (IIIrd millenium USA, 2009 A.D.):

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8791/capitol3.jpg

That's the Capitol Building, not the White HouseSo what?...

Who will notice the difference?...

Like the Partenon...looks all ruins to me.:D

[leg_breaker]

OP: that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

[januk]

O.K.
What do you think about this one:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sl&u=http://www.arhivo.com/%3Fmod%3Daktualno%26action%3DviewOne%26ID%3D531&ei=5s0RSp7LDpGW_Qbzg4GXBA&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Darhivo%2Brezidenca%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

I think it's beautiful!

[Matt in the Hat]

Again, what is it with architects hating comfort and practical functionality? This is more masturbation, IMO.

http://www.arhivo.com/uploads/16pro01.jpg

These are going to leak like a sieve in 2 years. Bank it.

[leg_breaker]

Not necessarily, it's not like there aren't already buildings with windows facing upwards or at least slanted. It depends on how well the windows are fitted. That pool doesn't look very inviting though.