1999.03.15
most modern?
...the Palais des Congrès is somewhat of a 'baroque' re-interpretation for the Villa Savoye, and holds the key to the otherwise ethereal promenade architecturale.
Additionally, the main floor (level) of the Palais des Congrès is very much (spatially and programmatically) what a major portion of airports are now a days--compacted 'cities' in a sense. Moreover, the ramps (which ultimately) lead to the sky (to a huge roof garden) carry the airport analogy/metaphor ever upwards. The Palais holds other goodies as well, for example, see for what Le Corbusier places on the main auditorium stage. Is it a swan song?
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00031501 mesh surface building 003 model perspectives
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010315a Tower for Princeton Memorial Park plans elevations model 2207i02
2003.03.15 13:34
Re: 'the death of architecture' (reincarnated as furniture)
Piranesi's later works
French Empire stuff
the word cathedral come from a word meaning chair
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2005.03.15 12:15
Re: facadism
I liked the images of the Henry Miller too. I can understand the ire at what these 'false' facades represent, as well. Nonetheless, the images (for me at least) evoke memories of the free standing, screen facades that Mitchell/Giurgola Architects incorporated into a fair numbers of their designs mostly during the 1970s (--John, I'm sure you know the M/G building at Columbia U., got any tales to tell?), and I'll collect what images I have and publish them at Quondam soon. I think the immediate precedent for this practice was Kahn's notion of "wrapping ruins around buildings," which (I think) was said in regard to the Library at Exeter (1965-72), but it may have been said in reference to the Meeting House at Salk (1961-62, unexecuted) or even the US Consulate, Luanda, Angola (1959-62, unexecuted).
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14031501 Monastery of La Tourette plan
14031502 Levy Memorial Playground, plan
14031503 Levy Memorial Playground NNTC/Philadelphia School context plans
14031504 Trenton Jewish Community CenterDay Care NNTC/Philadelphia School context plans
14031505 Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti plan
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14031506 Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti Pantheon Paradigm context plans
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14031507 Acadia National Park Headquarters Building site plan
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14031508 Acadia National Park Headquarters Building NNTC/Philadelphia School context plans
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14031509 Acadia National Park Headquarters Building Pantheon Paradigm context plans
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14031510 Fisher House plan
14031511 Fisher House NNTC/Philadelphia School context plans
14031512 Dominican Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci site plan
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14031513 Dominican Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci Eastern State Penitentiary context plans
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14031514 Dominican Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci NNTC/Philadelphia School context plans
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14031515 Dominican Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci GAUA context plans
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14031516 Museum for Nordrhein Westfalen GAUA context plans
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15031501 Lacaton & Vassal New Museum Guangzhou
16031501 Ludi for Schinkel plan site plan 4400x2200 District Q IQ64
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16031502 Mikveh PMP I. Kahn Collagio plans site plan 2200x1100 Campo Rovine IQ63
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16031503 Acropolis Q on the Parkway Calder Museum plan site plan 2200x1100 IQ19
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16031504 House of Shadows Bye plan site plan 4400x2200 Ottopia IQ55
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16031505 Stoner Food Restaurant plan site plan 2200x1100 Ury IQ61
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16031501 OMA NM Rothschild Bank London
17031501 Working Title Museum 005 @ Pantheon Paradigm model work 2379i14
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