2015.06.09 17:13
Renderings of BIG-Designed Two World Trade Center Revealed
The earliest stacked-box skyscraper design that I know of is within Arquitectonica's Capital Park West (1983).
In many ways, Arquitectonica can be considered the ur-OMA spinoff. Remember, Spears and Koolhaas worked together just before Arquitectonica (and OMA) was formed. And, while Capital Park West was never executed, they were nonetheless the first architects to get 'delirious New York' type architecture built, well before Koolhaas and Zenghelis themselves.
Thus I now wonder whether BIG's WTC2 will be the first stacked-box skyscraper actually built. I'm trying to think of some other such project(s) that already exists, but I'm drawing a blank--please let me know if there is. I know H&dM's NYC luxury hi-rise currently under construction, but that's a bit more voxelation than stacked-box, and there's, of course, the New Museum, but that's not really a skyscraper.
ps
Arquitectonica's Capital Park West is clearly a decendent of Leonidov's Dom Narkomtjazjprom project.
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2015.06.09 17:45
Renderings of BIG-Designed Two World Trade Center Revealed
Although it hasn't been mentioned as such, the cantilever of the stacked boxes is the distinguishing feature of this stacked tower genre. And the precedent for modern skyscraper with stacked cantilever is the PSFS Building.
2015.06.09 20:44
Renderings of BIG-Designed Two World Trade Center Revealed
This image may look different tomorrow.
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2015.06.10 10:14
Renderings of BIG-Designed Two World Trade Center Revealed
2WTC is an interesting combination of tower sides. The south and west elevations are flat; the north elevation progressively cantilevers out; the east elevation progressively sets back.
2015.06.10 11:27
Renderings of BIG-Designed Two World Trade Center Revealed
Actually the 2WTC design is more extra-ordinary, ie, two ordinaries plus something extra. I just have this feeling 2WTC will be a genuine success.
2015.06.11 12:40
Op-Ed: Beyond Stars, Icons and Much More, by Patrik Schumacher
"The term ‘Parametricism’ implies that all elements of architecture are becoming parametrically malleable and thus adaptive to each other and to the context." --Schumacher
"I can't tell yet if The Autopoiesis of Architecture is written parametrically, but it is certainly worthwhile when read parametrically." --Lauf, 2013.02.16
Given that my straight forward questions here have not been responded to, it's become clear that it is not the projects and research that fall short, rather it's the theoretical agenda that falls short. And it's greatest short fall is that it isn't parametric itself.
2015.06.12 21:25
Stargazing with Patrik Schumacher: Episode 33 of Archinect Sessions
...for a magically intellectual experience of the German language, read Grimms Märchen. Even more surprising when read aloud.
2015.06.12 21:38
Stargazing with Patrik Schumacher: Episode 33 of Archinect Sessions
I'm not sure there's such a direct link between a language that readily accommodates multi-appositions and obfuscating rhetoric. If anything, multi-appositions manifest innate creativity.
2015.06.13 09:47
Stargazing with Patrik Schumacher: Episode 33 of Archinect Sessions
...my statement--"I'm not sure there's such a direct link between a language that readily accommodates multi-appositions and obfuscating rhetoric. If anything, multi-appositions manifest innate creativity."--was in response to Miles' "So it seems that Germans have a cultural predilection for obfuscating rhetoric." It had nothing to do with Schumacher per se. It is interesting, however, to see how your mind works in terms on making assumptions about me and the general inaccuracy of those assumptions.
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