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That hint did it, at least for me:


http://skateboarding.transworl...


Villa Mairea, Alvar and Aino Aalto 1939.

Aug 17, 17 3:13 pm  · 
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in Noormarkku, Finland

Aug 17, 17 3:15 pm  · 
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I'm on mobile so if anyone wants to post a fresh one, go ahead!

Aug 17, 17 3:17 pm  · 
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.

Aug 17, 17 3:42 pm  · 
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threadkilla

proving that shapes have the capacity to be political.The house also boasts amazing interiors and countless neat details.
http://archeyes.com/villa-mair...


Aug 17, 17 4:42 pm  · 
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I'll post one:




Aug 17, 17 9:51 pm  · 
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Hints:

This is about as far south as you can get, and still be in Europe.

This architect is more famous for his articles, books, and exhibitions.

Aug 18, 17 6:20 pm  · 
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No, not as far south as that. I should have also said "mainland Europe" with emphasis on the "about". The building I posted is older than those below.

Aug 19, 17 8:41 am  · 
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An Italian cliff.

Aug 19, 17 9:56 am  · 
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Yes, contemporaries.

Aug 19, 17 3:46 pm  · 
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threadkilla

great research, Chris! It looked like a Mediterranean project to me, even before the hints, but so does a lot of modernism... Rudofsky is an interesting collaborator to have, as he advocated for a modernism that is steeped in vernacular tradition, and was pretty influential for a group of Italian architects who were Libera's contemporaries. He might have more international recognition than Cosenza, due to the success of his book "Architecture without architects". This house certainly seems to have design parallels to Casa Malaparte, and both appear to have been finished in 1937...


Aug 19, 17 5:48 pm  · 
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That's it! Please claim your prize!

Aug 19, 17 6:32 pm  · 
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randomised

@Daniel:

You can post a plan now :-)

Aug 21, 17 1:37 pm  · 
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randomised

Okay, I'll go:


Aug 22, 17 1:31 am  · 
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randomised

Not on top of a building and yes Japan.

Aug 23, 17 1:28 am  · 
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randomised

hint:

Aug 23, 17 3:26 am  · 
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randomised

*bump*

Aug 23, 17 3:45 am  · 
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randomised

hint no.2:

"La felicità viene dalla correttezza"

Aug 23, 17 4:54 am  · 
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The Todoroki Residence by Hiromi Fujii.

http://socks-studio.com/2013/1...

Aug 23, 17 8:18 am  · 
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Yep, well done. Can see where Sou Fujimoto got his inspiration from for House N.

Aug 23, 17 8:26 am  · 
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Next:


Aug 23, 17 8:25 am  · 
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Villa Girasole!  Angelo Invernizzi

Image result for villa girasole


Aug 23, 17 10:13 am  · 
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Next: 

Image result

Aug 23, 17 10:19 am  · 
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nope

Aug 23, 17 7:38 pm  · 
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Located in the same country as the previous entry. Not a castle, but perhaps similar structurally, given the thick poche...

Aug 24, 17 8:46 pm  · 
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Another hint: there is no exterior. Or, rather, the exterior would be recognizable as a different building.

Aug 25, 17 2:12 pm  · 
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It was designed for the display of certain objects.

Aug 25, 17 6:15 pm  · 
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threadkilla

Franco Albini's Treasure Museum of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo at Genoa, 1963-56.

great hints! I ended up finding the project in Benevolo's "History of Modern Architecture". I think I prefer the graphic sensibility of the inverted ceiling plan:



Aug 25, 17 6:24 pm  · 
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Boom!

 



Aug 25, 17 6:27 pm  · 
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threadkilla

there's a typo in my first response, the museum was built between 1952 and 1956...

Aug 25, 17 6:50 pm  · 
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threadkilla

.

Aug 25, 17 6:45 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Church?

Aug 26, 17 10:21 am  · 
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The Tuskegee Chapel by Paul Rudolph.


Aug 26, 17 11:15 am  · 
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threadkilla

good job! I flipped the plan 180 degrees from it's usual orientation :)

this, again, is where the reflected ceiling drawing steals the show:

Aug 26, 17 2:14 pm  · 
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Which is on the cover of one of his books, which is why I recognized it.

Aug 26, 17 5:01 pm  · 
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threadkilla

yes, the book by Moholy-Nagy :) it's why i didn't use the roof plan drawing - would have been too easy!

Aug 26, 17 5:23 pm  · 
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Next:


Aug 26, 17 11:17 am  · 
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threadkilla

Pirelli Tower in Milan by Gio Ponti and Luigi Nervi :) 1950's classic! the tallest building in Italy for several years after it's completion - a symbol for the country's 'miraculous' post-war recovery - and a precedent for the Pan Am / MetLife tower in NY with the tapered sides.

Have you seen his project (in collaboration with Nino Rosani) for the Palazzo Lancia?

Aug 26, 17 2:27 pm  · 
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Probably so, I can't recall it off the top of my head.

Aug 26, 17 5:03 pm  · 
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threadkilla

.

Aug 26, 17 2:51 pm  · 
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Wilma Buttfit

Prentice Women's Hospital?

Aug 26, 17 3:18 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Ah, you beat me to it. Did they demolish it? I remember reading about it.

Aug 26, 17 3:53 pm  · 
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Wilma Buttfit

Yes, demolished a few years ago. chicago.

Aug 26, 17 4:02 pm  · 
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threadkilla

I was hoping that would go quickly! Good job, tintt

Aug 26, 17 4:33 pm  · 
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threadkilla


Bertrand Goldberg, 1975

Aug 26, 17 4:45 pm  · 
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Wilma Buttfit

Next:

Related image

Aug 26, 17 4:01 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Konstantin Melnikov's house. Prentice hospital always reminds me of it.

Aug 26, 17 4:12 pm  · 
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Wilma Buttfit

Yes. And me too.

Aug 26, 17 4:30 pm  · 
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threadkilla

:) I almost posted this one instead of the Bertrand Goldberg!

Aug 26, 17 4:44 pm  · 
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threadkilla



arguably the best house in Moscow

Aug 26, 17 4:49 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Let's keep it round:

Aug 26, 17 4:46 pm  · 
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MVRDV's FROSILO?

Aug 26, 17 7:06 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Yes, sir, good job.
You are up.

Aug 26, 17 7:14 pm  · 
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nice. 

Aug 26, 17 7:32 pm  · 
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more circles and curves:




Aug 26, 17 7:30 pm  · 
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Escuelas Nacionales de Arte - Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba, by Roberto Ricardo Porro


Aug 26, 17 9:32 pm  · 
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Close, but no cigar. The plan is the ballet school by Vittorio Garatti. Porro did the ISA masterplan and several of the other buildings.


Ballet school:





Aug 27, 17 3:08 pm  · 
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Oops, something told me I should've waited for you to confirm my answer.

Aug 27, 17 5:18 pm  · 
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Evan, will you please post a plan for me?

Aug 27, 17 8:45 pm  · 
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Almost a circle, next:


Aug 26, 17 9:39 pm  · 
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No atrium, flip that arrangement of spaces. This is a relatively new project, there are few right angles because of an old reason.

Aug 27, 17 1:07 pm  · 
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a-f

Valeirio Olgiati's Atelier Bardill. Built within exactly the same volume as the building that it replaced.


Aug 27, 17 4:48 pm  · 
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a-f

This one is a bit related to previous post, conceptually at least.


Aug 27, 17 4:54 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters by Norman Foster?

Aug 27, 17 5:58 pm  · 
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Danlazop

I'm much more fond of Foster's earlier projects...

Aug 27, 17 8:15 pm  · 
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Danlazop

I m going back to circles:


Aug 27, 17 8:26 pm  · 
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Gunnar Asplund, Stockholm Public Library

Aug 27, 17 8:29 pm  · 
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Danlazop

man, that was fast. I ll stay away from the classics next time. you re up.

Aug 27, 17 8:39 pm  · 
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threadkilla

the classics are good, but the rest of us have to use restraint and let more people get in on the fun - this is admittedly hard to do.

Aug 27, 17 9:15 pm  · 
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posting for jw468, possibly a classic, though better as a drawing than a building:


Aug 28, 17 12:57 am  · 
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Danlazop

ok, hints...

Aug 29, 17 12:55 pm  · 
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It reminds me of a Piranesi plan but with too much repetition going on:

So probably something PoMo, no?

Aug 29, 17 1:33 pm  · 
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Found it: James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates Social Science Research Centre, Berlin, Germany, 1998

Aug 29, 17 1:39 pm  · 
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Images:



Can't post a new one right now, if someone wants to step in, be my guest :)

Aug 29, 17 1:41 pm  · 
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New one:


Aug 30, 17 3:02 am  · 
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senjohnblutarsky

Part looks like the Piazza del Campidoglio.  The rest.. .not so much.

Aug 30, 17 8:02 am  · 
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randomised

Correct

Aug 30, 17 8:26 am  · 
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Tsukuba Center, Arata Isozaki, 1983


Aug 30, 17 9:46 am  · 
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Correct!

"Then, by chance, just as the design for the forum's oval were completed, our research uncovered the fact that the configuration of the space was the same as for the Campidoglio in Rome. That being the case, I thought, I might as well make it almost exactly the same." 

–Arata Isozaki. GA Document. 8 1983, 11

Aug 30, 17 10:14 am  · 
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hey, well why the hell not? ;)

Aug 30, 17 10:30 am  · 
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threadkilla

while researching this plan I also read that Jun Aoki claims to have proposed the Campidoglio reference to Isozaki.

the fountain reminds me of Moore's Piazza d'Italia, posted here earstwhile.

Aug 30, 17 3:15 pm  · 
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Didn't know that about Aoki, interesting.

Aug 31, 17 3:18 am  · 
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Image posting not working for me at the moment - someone else go....

Aug 30, 17 9:59 am  · 
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threadkilla

picking this one based on Evan's previous plan pick :)

Aug 30, 17 5:05 pm  · 
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Ha! Nice.

Aug 30, 17 5:20 pm  · 
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JLC-1

too easy, but not saying it because I don't have anything to post.

Aug 30, 17 5:48 pm  · 
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I'm not too familiair with the work of Louis I. Kahn but I knew I saw that plan by someone somewhere in my recent hunt for James Sterling's building in Berlin and indeed:


model by Vira Koretska (http://www.deftlink.com/portfolio.html)

source: http://socks-studio.com/2016/0...

Aug 31, 17 5:32 am  · 
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Once again back to the curves and circles:



Aug 31, 17 6:10 am  · 
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a-f

Claude Parent? Looks a bit too "chubby" though.

Aug 31, 17 8:24 am  · 
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randomised

Nope, not oblique enough ;)

Aug 31, 17 12:17 pm  · 
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a-f

Is it underground?

Aug 31, 17 2:32 pm  · 
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randomised

Ues!

Sep 1, 17 12:20 am  · 
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Oops, Yes!

Sep 1, 17 12:21 am  · 
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a-f

Is it in France?

Sep 1, 17 10:57 am  · 
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Nope, a bit further up

Sep 1, 17 11:11 am  · 
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a-f

Is it a swimming pool? Everything about this plan confuses me.

Sep 1, 17 11:30 am  · 
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Nope, not for swimming, think more cultural.

Sep 1, 17 1:21 pm  · 
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randomised

Hint no.1:


Sep 2, 17 1:39 am  · 
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randomised

Sly? That's Los Angeles policeman Lt. Marion "Cobra" Cobretti ;)

Sep 2, 17 10:12 am  · 
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Hint no.2:


Sep 2, 17 10:30 am  · 
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Danlazop

Ok, this took a lot of googling. It's the Silkeborg Museum by Jørn Utzon. Unbuilt for what I can tell.

Sep 2, 17 11:00 am  · 
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threadkilla

what's the connection to Constant's New Babylon?

Sep 2, 17 1:52 pm  · 
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threadkilla

anything other than Asger Jorn's participation in the Situationist movement?

Sep 2, 17 2:41 pm  · 
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Constant and Asger Jorn were the only founding members of both CoBrA (hint1) and the Situationists (hint2) Hint 3 would have been either Sydney Opera House or the Utzon Center in Aalborg. Maybe too cryptic...

Sep 2, 17 3:56 pm  · 
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Danlazop

some more drawings






Sep 2, 17 11:07 am  · 
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I thought Utzon as Pritzker winner would be an easy one. It's unbuilt indeed although they made an exhibition with it: http://www.archdaily.com/789985/fatamorgana-utzon-meets-jorn

Sep 2, 17 12:57 pm  · 
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Danlazop

I'm not really well versed on Utzon. Funny thou, coincidentally
I have been reading a lot about him this week.

Sep 2, 17 8:59 pm  · 
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Danlazop

an easy one to keep the ball rolling:




Sep 2, 17 11:36 am  · 
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Don't have anything to post at the moment, so leave this one for someone else :)

Sep 2, 17 2:33 pm  · 
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threadkilla

hint: I posted a photo of a model of this project on page 1 :)

Sep 2, 17 2:41 pm  · 
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Danlazop


The inverted dome is intriguing





Sep 3, 17 2:03 am  · 
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Danlazop

sort of related:






Sep 3, 17 2:05 am  · 
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UNStudio Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart

Sep 3, 17 3:18 am  · 
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Can't post right now, if someone has a nice plan, feel free to post on my behalf. Otherwise I'll post in the morning CEST(Central European Standard Time)

Sep 3, 17 12:54 pm  · 
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Danlazop

I ll go:




Sep 3, 17 1:05 pm  · 
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a-f

Part of Bofill's studio / house in Sant Just Desvern.

Sep 3, 17 1:34 pm  · 
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a-f

https://vimeo.com/107468714

Sep 3, 17 1:35 pm  · 
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a-f

I heard you like circles...

Sep 3, 17 1:40 pm  · 
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a-f

No guesses? Here's a clue:


Sep 4, 17 12:00 pm  · 
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Lingotto factory in Turin with an English Mini Cooper on the roof? I'm lost...ah wait isn't that a scene from the Italian job, with Michael Caine as Charlie Croker...no but what about the mobile phone tower in the back...I don't know.

Sep 5, 17 4:07 am  · 
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a-f

"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

No seriously, it's the same city. 

Sep 5, 17 4:08 am  · 
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Sindone Chapel, by Guarino Guarini, at Turin, Italy, 1667 to 1690. 


Sep 5, 17 4:54 am  · 
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randomised

I even did a quick google for that church of Jesus' shroud before your hint but discarded the results, thought it was Ancient Roman or something but the steps threw me off.


Sep 5, 17 5:00 am  · 
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a-f

Yes! I love this dome:

Sep 5, 17 5:04 am  · 
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a-f

I guess this means you can post twice now.

Sep 5, 17 5:05 am  · 
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Let's start with this one:


Sep 5, 17 5:31 am  · 
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FlameAura

Millenium Falcon :D?

Sep 5, 17 5:45 am  · 
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architect?

Sep 5, 17 5:47 am  · 
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FlameAura

Sorry, I don't know without googling

Sep 5, 17 5:51 am  · 
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You're allowed to google, just not reverse image search :)

Sep 5, 17 6:13 am  · 
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It's now movie director then concept artist and effects technician Joe Johnston by the way: https://kitbashed.com/blog/a-complete-history-of-the-millennium-falcon

Sep 5, 17 6:30 am  · 
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So FlameAura, you can post a new plan!

Sep 5, 17 6:33 am  · 
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Here's the original drawing pre-coffee stain :)

Other version:

Sep 5, 17 6:23 am  · 
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,

Sep 5, 17 6:37 am  · 
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Okay, until FlameAura post theirs, here's my 2nd:


Sep 5, 17 8:33 am  · 
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a-f

Is it built?

Sep 5, 17 1:27 pm  · 
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randomised

Yes, this one is.

Sep 5, 17 3:21 pm  · 
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randomised

And it's American!

Sep 6, 17 1:06 am  · 
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phase 1 of the project even has an extra circle :)


Sep 6, 17 3:03 am  · 
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They had to postpone the opening of the building due to the assassination of a local resident.

Sep 6, 17 3:26 am  · 
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randomised

Clue at 0:45

Sep 6, 17 8:58 am  · 
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FlameAura

Here is mine:



Sep 5, 17 9:40 am  · 
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a-f

This one's easy, but I'll let somebody else play.

Sep 5, 17 1:26 pm  · 
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i don't think i've ever seen the plan, but this feels a lot like the louisiana museum...

Sep 6, 17 1:42 am  · 
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Jorgen Bo & Vilhelm Wohlert, 1958-1966

Sep 6, 17 2:07 am  · 
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FlameAura

Yes it is! It's one of my favourites buildings :)

Sep 6, 17 4:42 am  · 
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a-f

I also like the danish Miesian style of their Piniehøj villas...


Sep 6, 17 7:08 am  · 
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randomised

bump to keep the momentum

Sep 5, 17 1:08 pm  · 
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here's one i ran across while searching unsuccessfully for randomized's nine-square of circles. 


Sep 6, 17 2:11 am  · 
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a-f

My first thought was Torres Blancas, but this is something else. Maybe metabolist?

Sep 6, 17 7:12 am  · 
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nope.

Sep 6, 17 9:58 am  · 
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hint: most of this architect's work is at a much larger scale.

Sep 6, 17 10:01 am  · 
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randomised

Is it built?

Sep 6, 17 2:08 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Built? US project?

Sep 6, 17 2:09 pm  · 
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Built, though I don't know if it still survives. US architect and location.

Sep 6, 17 2:14 pm  · 
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a-f

John Portman's Entelechy I. I only managed by going through projects from American architects with large scale projects. Very cool!


Sep 6, 17 2:55 pm  · 
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a-f

There's an Entelechy II as well.


Sep 6, 17 2:57 pm  · 
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You got it! Some more great period photos here: https://spfaust.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/entelechy-i-ii-the-magnificent-houses-of-architect-john-portman/

Sep 6, 17 2:59 pm  · 
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The plan from SEP 5, 17 8:33 AM is also still unsolved and has clues now!

Sep 6, 17 1:23 pm  · 
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a-f

Let's put an end to it then. Philip Johnson's extension to the Museum for Pre-Columbian Arts at Dumbarton Oaks.

It's like a weird combination of structuralism and postmodernism.

Sep 6, 17 1:43 pm  · 
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Ah thanks for putting me out of my misery, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep. It's very weird indeed.

Sep 6, 17 1:58 pm  · 
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Who would have thought this was a Philip Johnson? More here: http://www.doaks.org/resources...

Sep 6, 17 2:06 pm  · 
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a-f

Some more circular cores! And not too difficult...


Sep 6, 17 3:05 pm  · 
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Wasn't sure, googled "tower with cylinder corner", first page of images: Knights of Columbus Headquarters
by Kevin Roche & John Dinkeloo. 1967 - 1969 New Haven, Connecticut

Sep 7, 17 4:23 am  · 
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randomised

Some pics:



Sep 7, 17 4:30 am  · 
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a-f

Yes, you are correct! More info here.

Sep 7, 17 5:41 am  · 
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randomised

Awesome clip!

Sep 7, 17 5:44 am  · 
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randomised

And now for something completely different:


Sep 7, 17 5:46 am  · 
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Danlazop

Creek Vean House by Team Four. Love the project, quite mature for recently graduated Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Cool picture btw!

Sep 7, 17 12:07 pm  · 
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,

Sep 7, 17 11:27 am  · 
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Danlazop

Roger's trademark rounded ends kitchen island gave it up.

Sep 7, 17 12:12 pm  · 
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randomised

Would have never spotted that :)

Here some details:


Foster has his entire archive online and it's amazing:

http://archive.normanfosterfou...

Sep 7, 17 1:06 pm  · 
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Danlazop

That's incredible. Thanks for the head's up.

Sep 7, 17 1:21 pm  · 
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Danlazop

More funny angles:



Sep 7, 17 12:53 pm  · 
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House with One Wall - Christian Kerez, 2007

http://www.archdaily.com/60401...

Sep 8, 17 3:00 am  · 
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One of my favourite contemporary projects and architects actually.

Sep 8, 17 3:18 am  · 
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Danlazop

Instant classic.

Sep 8, 17 5:34 pm  · 
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randomised

Next:

(sorry, couldn't find better quality)

Sep 8, 17 3:17 am  · 
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randomised

I did find a better one:


Sep 8, 17 7:58 am  · 
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randomised

*Doin' the humpty [b]ump*

Sep 8, 17 6:22 pm  · 
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randomised

Yes it's a driveway and there is a 2nd floor, no mountains unfortunately just sand and pine trees:

It's a project developed more or less around the time of a more known building by the same architect, therefore they share some similarities. 

Sep 9, 17 3:15 am  · 
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Danlazop

It s the Dutch House by Oma

Sep 9, 17 2:05 pm  · 
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randomised

Correct!

Sep 9, 17 2:07 pm  · 
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Danlazop




koolhaas at his most miesian





Sep 9, 17 2:12 pm  · 
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Danlazop

This is the stuff I drooled at while at school.

Sep 9, 17 2:15 pm  · 
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randomised

This house sneaked past me totally unnoticed all these years.

Sep 9, 17 2:30 pm  · 
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Danlazop

Well, it is the more discreet of the three that came around that time (Maison floriac and Villa d'all Ava being the other two).

Sep 9, 17 2:50 pm  · 
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