Architecture of the Day
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- Fax_Benson3
Peter Barber wins 4 RIBA awards for London social housing projects.
- good luck with the birds that nest under those arched porches.shapesalad
- thanksFax_Benson
- Those arches are designed so feral cats can live up there and feast on pigeons and keep the rats away when the garbage doesn’t get picked up post Brexithardhat
- How could this win awards? Maybe part of the push for ultra-conservative arch. The UK is way behind others in so many ways.formed
- This is social housing, so 'done cheap'. Not sure how this is 'way behind others in so many ways', esp. given one of our major cultural exports is architecture.Nairn
- you claim architecture as english culture? :-)uan
- Me? I'm not sure, at all, that I suggested that. It is a facet of our culture, just like it is for all cultures.Nairn
- Why wouldn't it win awards? this is really very good affordable housing.
https://open-city.or…Fax_Benson - The arch appear to be out of proportion with the rest of the house...very top heavy. What does the inside look like?
What doe sth inside of theseutopian - lovely view of that public bin out the window. plenty of noise from the traffic. miserable.shapesalad
- I struggle to understand how you've apparently made it near two decades in London, shape.Nairn
- I'm a grumpy sod but you're next level, shape. There's no traffic and no litter in the pic. Not sure the architect has control over either anyway.Fax_Benson
- utopian1
- those students have no idea about real architecture, but nice rendering skills :-)uan
- I found this project interesting, stimulating and amusing,...because it reminded me of a multi-deck diving platform.utopian
- Did you read the article? It was designed by a studio in Turin entirely as a concept and the renders were done by a bureau.face_melter
- no, i didn't read it yet.was waking up and just thought this looks cool, but you would fry in such a box, there's no protection from the sun nor ventilation.uan
- Ill take a look later and find out if that studio did build anything yet.uan
- also..poor birds and window cleaners.uan
- This isn't architecture. If this was a pavilion design with a purpose we could talk, but a bedroom? C'mon, this is just playing with renderings.formed
- I would never be able to sleep past dawn. that house is a living nightmare.shellie
- i can hear le corbusier laughing from the great beyond.neverscared
- Fuck me, what Minecraft mod is this?
Love it.Nairn - Philip Johnson did it first....freakpelican
- Mies did it before him. Both actually designed architecture. This is a kid playing with 3D.formed
- When I was a kid I used to laugh at this concept now as a geezer I love itAQUTE
- Krassy7
- He was amazing.formed
- gorgeousStoicLevels
- Agree, formed.PublicVoice
- grafician2
- niceutopian
- don't have a source to know how big it is, but looks good from the outside, probably a small bedroom upstairs and utils downstairs next to the gorgeous livinggrafician
- https://olsonkundig.…whatthefunk
- ^WTF WOWgrafician
- love itKrassy
- I’m intrigued which film maker owns this.calculator
- It appears in Polanski's Ninth Gatespl33nidoru
- Wasn’t it in that droid-fucker movie? Ex-machina or whateverscarabin
- Olson Kundig has some amazing work.formed
- utopian4
- niceKrassy
- Outside yes, inside not so much.NBQ00
- Looks like the set of a softcore porn/sci fi from the late 60s. Just needs a shag rug.i_monk
- not child safe. Sorry I'm a dad I have to think about this.Beeswax
- Yeah no, don't wanna get stabbed by my house while going to sleepgrafician
- What kind of moron stands up in a canoe (and still wearing his pack)? The kind that gets photoshopped there by a dope who’s never been outsideGnash
- inv5
Under Restaurant
Under is Europe´s first underwater restaurant. Designed by Snohetta to resemble a sunken periscope, the 495-square-metre concrete structure appears to float at the surface like a capsized boat. Perched seemingly precariously on a rocky coastline at the southernmost point of Norway, the restaurant is fronted by a huge panoramic window that gives visitors an impressive view of marine life. Diners enter above sea-level and descend down a flight of stairs to the bar and main dining room where they will indulge in fresh, seasonal fare from chef Nicolai Ellitsgaard. The restaurant also functions as a research center for marine life, providing a tribute to the wild fauna of the sea and to the rocky coastline of Norway´s southern tip.- Funfact, the word "under" also means wonder in Norwegian.inv
- Yes please. Hexpensive but why the hell not. https://under.no/foo…MrT
- That would fucking terrify me.Continuity
- Dinner guest:
https://i.imgur.com/…Nairn - wow in pictures. though probably looses its spiritual dimension the moment space fills with people.pr2
- Krassy2
- it's getting thereKrassy
- Taiwan?shapesalad
- yupKrassy
- butwhy.jpgNairn
- Should have built 2 of thempango
- That's a Raiders of the Lost Ark moment just itching to happen.Continuity
- gonna look dirty as shit in a matter of monthssrhadden
- Never been a big fan of OMA/Koolhaasformed
- https://66.media.tum…prophetone
- love Taiwan - in many ways far more advanced than silly Brexit uk....shapesalad
- In a way they're trying to Brexit too lolpango
- Krassy4
- Flintstonesfooler
- Last one looks like assrobotron3k
- these look coolmonospaced
- Looks like a habitable dickbuttdee-dubs
- all photos are of the same one house
https://www.ancient-…imbecile - love it.sea_sea
- BusterBoy2
- Woah!!!OBBTKN
- More info pls. An ultra-light roof?SimonFFM
- I assume that the glass would go into the ground 2x as far as it goes out... Dope.toemaas
- amazing update of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's design of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlinuan
- Toughened glass can, applied correctly and at the right thickness, support a tremendous amount of weight. More engineering than architecture, to be honest.face_melter
- It is simple, just comes down to having the $$ to put into expensive glass. Think aquarium glass.formed
- Isn't this the thing in the middle of the Apple building?Hayzilla
- sted4
- We are living in history.robotron3k
- All i see is cool places to throw a raveKrassy
- Tilt shift lens?HijoDMaite
- Where is this? Why can't NYC have subways like this?CyBrainX
- Budapest :)sted
- Fax_Benson5
- Oh my.
Now I just need £3–10M.Nairn - yeah, looking through them is painful but you can't stopFax_Benson
- wow! very nice!Krassy
- imagine the running costs, staff, annual taxes etc. ouch but beautiful.helloeatbreathedrive
- Oh my.
- Krassy3
- This is a very bad idea.lnu
- okKrassy
- Saying something is a "bad idea" and then not giving context as to why in itself is a bad idea.ideaist
- ^Krassy
- inu has drainage concerns and fears flood dangerimbecile
- it's a bad idea because of what I see, and it's too obvious to even require contextmonospaced
- For the record, it is not a bad idea any more than New Orleans isimbecile
- utopian5
- nice!Krassy
- the couple hates is so much they don't even bother unpacking toys for the kid...pr2
- There's an A-Frame house for sale close to me. It's actually fucking awesome. I just can't get past all the wasted space.section_014
- Nairn3
- what a buildingFax_Benson
- letting these decay is criminalspl33nidoru
- Probably cost ten times as much to do this place up as it would to scrap it then re-build it from scratch.microkorg
- Hmm, not sure, structure costs a ton and that's a LOT of structure, not to mention demo costs.formed
- probably cheaper to demo with stick built but this is some beefy ass concretedigitdaily