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Architecture - the good, the bad and the ugly

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by Charlatan, Nov 26, 2013.

  1. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    found something. I would like to live there...


    The Interlace:

    http://singaporecondo.jimmytangl.com/interlace-a-99-years-singapore-condo/

    Developed by Ankerite Pte Ltd, (a joint venture comprising CapitaLand Residential Singapore Pte Ltd, Hotel Properties Limited and a third shareholder) The Interlace is one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore. It will present a radically new approach to contemporary living in a lush tropical environment.

    The Interlace is located along Depot Road and on an expansive eight-hectare site in the heart of Singapore’s Southern Ridges and will complete a nine-kilometre green belt of parks and recreational facilities. With about 170,000 square metres of gross floor area, the development will provide over 1,000 condominium units of varying sizes with extensive outdoor spaces and landscaping.
    Instead of creating a cluster of isolated, vertical towers – the standard typology of residential developments in Singapore – the design responds to the issues and challenges of tropical living by proposing an expansive network of recreational and dwelling spaces integrated with the natural environment.
    Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six stories tall with a total of 1,040 units, are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement to form eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. The interlocking volumes form the topography of a ‘vertical village’ with cascading sky gardens and private and public roof terraces vertically extending the landscape of the courtyards.
    Extensive communal facilities which are embedded in the lush vegetation offer multiple opportunities for social interaction in a natural environment. While maintaining the privacy of the individual apartment units through generous spacing of the building blocks and unobstructed far-ranging views, the horizontal and interconnected volumes create an interactive network of outdoor spaces within the green terrain.

    And:

    http://archidose.blogspot.ca/2013/10/singapore-sightseeing-interlace.html
     
  2. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    Interestingly, that last link makes reference to Moshe Safdie, the architect that designed Habitat, that he is working in Singapore. Here is what Safdie recently completed in Singapore:

    The Marina Bay Sands Singapore Casino and Resort. This is a rare building that has completely altered the skyline of the city.
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    The View from the roof top infinity pool is impressive.
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  3. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

    Location:
    Florida
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    Just found a nice photo exposition of this concrete house in Spain. It's called Solo House.
    Solo House
    The website it's on has a lot of interesting architecture.
    I got there from here:
    volume-control.tumblr.com
    Also cool stuff.
     
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  4. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    speaking of houses, here's an oddity from Toronto:

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    It's beside a downtown expressway, and is inspired by Piet Blom's cube structures in Rotterdam:

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    The inside:

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    Different, if not entirely practical.
     
  5. MSD

    MSD Very Tilted

    Location:
    CT
    MM's post of the Pirelli building reminded me of some local architecture.

    Landmark Square in Stamford, CT, designed by Victor Bisharat (he also designed High Ridge Park, which I posted a couple of months ago,) was the tallest building between New York and Boston until Donald Trump's pathetic failure of a residential building (less than 50% occupied more than 5 years after opening and deviates noticeably from being vertical) went up a few blocks away.
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    I always think of the Knights of Columbus building in New Haven as Landmark Square's evil twin.
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    And here's one for all the fans of brutalism; the Steelcase Pyramid is one of my favorite buildings in the world. It's for sale now, if I was rich I'd drop the $19M turn it into a supervillain lair.
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  6. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

    Stamford is also the site of the hugely expensive and wretchedly bad Metro-North train station, a/k/a the Stewart B. McKinney Transportation Center.

    Back in 1989, when it was brand new, there was no shelter for the narrow and usually very crowded trackside waiting area (except underneath the station itself), but if you were in the waiting room when your train was announced, it was physically impossible to get down to the platform in time to catch it.

    You also couldn't avoid this station. If you were traveling between New Haven and anywhere in New York, besides Grand Central, you had to change trains in Stamford.

    In other words, twice a day, you had to stand (not enough seating) in the hot sun or falling rain for half an hour or more.

    It was enough to make a commuter despise even the word "Stamford". Synonym: "contempt for the public".

    I hear that the station has been extensively altered (presumably at further great expense) in an attempt to address its many functional failings.

    And the city allows people to live in it? Shouldn't it be condemned as unsafe?

    Wait, it's fucking Stamford. Never mind.
     
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  7. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    That's so awesome.
     
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  8. MSD

    MSD Very Tilted

    Location:
    CT
    I'm at the Stamford train station daily and it's much better. It still has its issues (get off a peak hour train on the NY-bound side and it takes 5 minutes for everyone to walk down to the tunnel then there's a bottleneck at the sliding doors,) but the platforms have a fair amount of cover and the new announcement system gets everyone where they need to be in time.

    Trump Parc isn't the only leaning tower of Trump, I think it's New Rochelle that's also a bit tipsy.

    The city in general is nothing like it was in 1989, it you're interested I can snap a few pictures for you. The area by the transportation center is now the home of UBS and RBS, and you can walk in the area at night without worrying about being mugged.
     
    Last edited: Jan 17, 2014
  9. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    New Rochelle? oh man that makes me think of the Dick van Dyke show... didn't realize it was a real place.
     
  10. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    These apartments are in Toronto... (or were I haven't seen them lately - up by the 400 north of the 401). I would have guessed modernist? Nice looking, but I feel sorry for the tenants lower down who get a poor view off of their balconies

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  11. fjmollot

    fjmollot Getting Tilted

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    CASA GRANDE — Oddity seekers will find a bonanza when they come across a set of round relics squatting in the desert south of Casa Grande. At first glance, they look like abandoned UFOs. Closer inspection reveals they’re manmade, and they’re sort of spooky. They’re a series of domes. Some stand (or squat) alone; others are connected so they resemble a giant caterpillar. All are abandoned and have been severely vandalized, so there are no doors or windows left.
    The domes are concrete covered with chemical foam. They were built to house an electronics circuit board factory but the project never got off the ground. Now it’s a merely gathering place for underage beer drinkers, graffiti artists and a wind that howls through the emptiness.
     
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  12. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    I am a big fan of 30 St Mary's Axe better known as, The Gherkin.

    A while back, I watched a documentary on the design and construction of this building. The inside is just as interesting as the exterior. They managed to keep the floor plate functional and, with addition of internal gardens and light/air shafts, beautiful.

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  13. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    why is it called the Axe?
     
  14. MSD

    MSD Very Tilted

    Location:
    CT
    Modernism and futurism got really drunk and had a regretful hookup while Art Deco brooded angrily in t he corner after they left the bar.
     
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  15. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek

    30 St Mary Axe is the address. It was, at one time, called the Swiss Re Building after the insurance company that commissioned it. It's also called, The Gherkin, by many locals.
     
  16. girldetective

    girldetective Getting Tilted

    The Bieneke library at Yale is windowed with sliver thin marble to allow low light to be admitted inside:

    Exterior:

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    Interior wall:

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    Detail of framing w/marble (interior):

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  17. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    That's neat, but it looks cold. How much heat is lost through the marble?
     
  18. girldetective

    girldetective Getting Tilted

    Im not sure, but the point is to keep the rare books/manus under strict climate control for preservation. They are housed in a center tower. The low light of the marble walls adds to their preservation.

    Whenever Ive been there Ive been warm, like that proverbial bug in a rug. But then, I might attribute that the the nearness of hot text. Its beautiful.
     
    Last edited: Feb 18, 2014
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  19. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    Any uv light would be bad for the books. I bet this gives just enough natural light to make the space livable.

    I was just thinking single pane windows are inefficient but it sounds like it's about more than just function.
     
  20. cis689

    cis689 Slightly Tilted

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