correct! Fatehpur Sikri is a town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city was founded in 1569 by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and served as the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585, when it was abandoned.
First thought it was a Kees Christiaanse - KCAP ( couple of towers on a plinth of housing/offices but then realised the plinth wasn't high enough for anything but parking). It was a Xaveer De Geyter!
XDGA - Chassé Park Apartments 1996-2001 Breda, NL
(I love how Xaveer used his own initial (X) for the structure)
looks like a cute house, but what is that dining table doing outside
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Sep 19, 17 11:00 am ·
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randomised
I guess it's to have dinner :)
Here's an older, original, less clear plan without dining table, maybe that helps!:
Sep 19, 17 1:47 pm ·
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JLC-1
In the original sections they had a window well and it became that concrete tube on the side of the entry steps; I've always like these guys, but I thought they were more germanic with the process, it's nice to see they have that freedom.
It's weird it was left out in the cad plan, don't know why because it's such a key feature. So my guess is you know the plan and architect(s) very well.
wow, that's a deceiving looking building. The plan is almost contemporary in design, but you would never guess by looking at its exterior. A true trojan horse.
Quondam, where would you have liked to have gone to school?
Sep 26, 17 1:58 pm ·
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randomised
Also, is that because of the building or the curriculum?
Sep 26, 17 1:59 pm ·
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JLC-1
that is not built, it's a final school project for the Zurich school of architecture by a Spaniard.
Sep 26, 17 2:32 pm ·
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JLC-1
it took me a while to find it, but Vitores post is clear - (proyecto final de carrera 2009) nice building.
Sep 26, 17 3:16 pm ·
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randomised
That was a difficult one, so you would have wanted to study in Zürich, not a bad choice. The ETH also offers free online courses, ETHx via EdX might be something there.
That hot dog hint could also mean Frankfurt(er)...
Oct 3, 17 4:51 am ·
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randomised
Doing google searches on mobile is sooo annoying
Oct 3, 17 6:27 am ·
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randomised
Without knowing or ever having seen the project, besides the plan posted here. It's OMA's submission for the new Campus for the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in 2013:
Next one (I'll be travelling so might take a while to check in):
Oct 4, 17 1:47 am ·
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JLC-1
goetheanum?
Oct 4, 17 9:52 am ·
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threadkilla
Goetheanum has more of a figure-8, Melnikov-house-type plan
Oct 4, 17 12:33 pm ·
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threadkilla
My first instinct (based on the dome) was that this might be Otto Wagner's Steinhof Kirche. But that's definitely not it
Oct 4, 17 12:54 pm ·
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JLC-1
I've never seen floor plans for either, and the goetheanum has that weird shaped shell, my bad.
Oct 4, 17 12:56 pm ·
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threadkilla
so it's a byzantine/classical church plan annotated in German with Hector Guimard-esque lettering... I'm giving up looking for now, but this is an interesting one for sure
Oct 4, 17 1:51 pm ·
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threadkilla
Max Berg, Centennial Hall (Jahrhunderthalle aka Hala Stulecia) 1911-1913 in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau), Poland
once I gave up thinking of this as a church because of the gigantic scale, I just looked around for the largest concrete dome of the period I thought this is from
"Built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the four-day Battle of Leipzig in 1813.In this “Battle of Nations,” as it is also known, coalition forces from Austria, Germany, Russia, and Sweden won a decisive victory over Napoleon Bonaparte and his occupying armies.Designed by German architect Max Berg (1870–1947), Centennial Hall is equal in scale to the military event it memorializes."
apparently the construction workers did not want to pull the formwork after the concrete has been placed, for lack of trust in the 'new' material, until the architect started doing so with a few volunteers...
hint: this architect's curvaceous work has already been featured in this thread
Oct 4, 17 7:28 pm ·
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JLC-1
google image search returned "auto parts", ha!
Oct 5, 17 10:26 am ·
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threadkilla
Love it! Auto parts is actually a valid secondary hint that might help one find the architect earlier in this thread. Third hint: this is a church plan.
Oct 5, 17 10:38 am ·
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randomised
Reverse image search not allowed!
Oct 6, 17 12:04 am ·
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threadkilla
This building is in Vienna
Oct 7, 17 1:41 am ·
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a-f
I don't know, but while googling I came across this gem:
Oct 13, 17 10:09 am ·
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Auferstehung Christi,
Karl Schwanzer
Oct 14, 17 7:15 pm ·
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threadkilla
That's it!
Oct 15, 17 12:36 am ·
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threadkilla
By the way, the plan posted by a-f is for the Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit (Church of the Most Holy Trinity) by Fritz Wotruba, built around the same time (mid-70s) as Schwanzer's Auferstehung Christi (Church of the Ressurrection of Christ). Colloquially known as the Wotruba Church, it was notably erected on the former site of Nazi barracks.
I've been fascinated with this one ever since seeing a pretty damn good model of it on the wall in the halls of the first architecture school I went to, with a grade of "C" prominently displayed beside the model.
Mat building extraordinaire.
Darn it, in the article I found and which is referenced by socks studio it's captioned House B. I knew it was Hejduk's Diamond Project but had to google for the specifics. Very disappointed :(
Oct 28, 17 9:30 am ·
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threadkilla
randimised, apparently people find it hard to keep up with Hejduk's nomenclature, but since you clearly knew what the drawing was you should post the next one :)
Oct 28, 17 11:50 am ·
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threadkilla
quondam, I recall discovering your website (this was before I signed up for this forum) when I was researching Hejduk in the latter half of grad school. Admittedly I am still baffled by your archive (and the incomprehensibly jaggy linework), but at the time (2010) it was the most comprehensive collection of evolutionary links between Corb's and Hejduk's projects. I don't know that I always "buy" your theories, or appreciate your own spin offs, but reading through all of that material you've gathered has at one time shaped a fair deal of my thinking. I don't imagine you would care, but my project ended up somewhere between the Diamond Museum and Mies' Neue Nationalgallerie, with a requisite dose of Jonathan Lasker (as per the instructor's requirements) - I really ought to revisit it when I find some time to do so...
Oct 28, 17 11:59 am ·
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threadkilla
Not instant, but doable if you can open the cad files in almost any current cad software, or even illustrator, fix the lineweights, and export as .pdfs or high res .png files... You can probably get an intern to blast through it in a summer, or somebody to write a script to do it... Info is great, but increasingly hard to look at these days. Anyways, that was my way of saying thanks :) looking forward to the next plan!
Oct 28, 17 1:35 pm ·
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threadkilla
Also, if you can provide any further disambiguation between the Diamond projects beyond this quote from the socks-studio website, that would be great!
Whereas the three projects are, according to the architect, explorations of the formal implications of the “diamond canvases of Mondrian for architects of today”, each one focus on the implications of the diamond configuration via different elements such as columns (House A), planes (House B) and biomorphic shapes (Museum C).
I'm not a fan of Libeskind but I did like some of his early projects like this and the Berlin Jewish Museum. There was something punk about them that got lost when he became corporate.
Oct 28, 17 7:38 pm ·
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randomised
Same here, really liked his early work when I was a student. Was curious to find out if the Nussbaum Haus was too easy or too obscure.
Oct 29, 17 12:48 am ·
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Danlazop
Might be obscure. I got the chance to see an exhibition of his models for this and some of his early projects at the beginning of the 2000's. They were quite beautiful and using unconventional materials for the time, like newspaper and other sort of re-used things. Very deconstructivist. So that project stuck with me.
Oct 29, 17 10:04 am ·
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randomised
Only ever saw pictures of those models, lucky you.
guess the plan [building]
next:
I m really curious on how easy this one might be...
mies' crystal skyscraper... uhh... fredrickstrasse?
Correct!
ahead of the curve as always...
another easy one?
Katsura Imperial Villa, Kobori Enshu, 17th century.
yep!
I thought it was a FLW but it turns out it was his inspiration :)
Katsura:
Next:
Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, 1972 Tokyo
Yes!
randomised, please claim your prize!
Ah yes, the prize, totally forgot. Here it is:
Villa Vals, by SeARCH + CMA, 2009
http://www.archdaily.com/43187...
Too easy
? Damn. Well good for them I suppose. Had all kinds of hints with Zumthor and Morphosis in mind...ah well. I guess you're Dutch too ;)
No, but I'm obsessed with Zumthor.
Next:
This one might be too obscure; first hint: this building and the Breuer library I posted have something fundamental in common.
Both in Atlanta? Both from 1980?
Both in Atlanta. This building is almost a decade and a half older. However, come to think of it, they do have other traits that are similar.
Found it! Hyatt Regency Atlanta 1967 by John Portman. That bloody atrium/piazza, very confusing so good pick ;-)
If you have some nice pics or drawings, please share
Here you go:
Next:
is it Torre Velasca in Milan? (1950s, BBPR )
where'd you find a plan w/ the outriggers?
if i'm right, someone else can post. Free!
Correct! I just googled for that plan and took it from Pinterest.
"Velasca Tower (Milan, 1958). Technology VS Historicism
Pic:
Structure:
Plans:
source: http://archeyes.com/velasca-to...
one of my favourite towers :) was wonderiing how long it will take to show up here, given the frequency of Italian projects in this thread!
Next:
Are those rooms or beam projections? Is it another Japanese temple?
The small rectangles around the perimeter edges of the large rectangles should probably be dashed lines.
Not a Japanese temple, but right hemisphere!
correct! Fatehpur Sikri is a town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city was founded in 1569 by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and served as the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585, when it was abandoned.
Is it in China? That dashed perimeter, roof lights perhaps?, reminds me of Pei Cobb's Suzhou museum but it isn't...
Like the Suzhou museum, this belongs to a tradition of courtyard buildings. Another hint: very little of this plan could be called interior.
Fatehpur Sikri is a town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city was founded in 1569 by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, and served as the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585, when it was abandoned.
okay, maybe we could do another baby-Rem:
First thought it was a Kees Christiaanse - KCAP ( couple of towers on a plinth of housing/offices but then realised the plinth wasn't high enough for anything but parking). It was a Xaveer De Geyter!
XDGA - Chassé Park Apartments 1996-2001 Breda, NL
(I love how Xaveer used his own initial (X) for the structure)
source: http://xdga.be/#chasse-park-ap...
Right next to Herman Hertzberger's Chassé Theater by the way (see first pic up)
Some student work about XDGA's project: https://issuu.com/sannedevries37/docs/graphical_analysis2
N-n-n-ext!
looks like a cute house, but what is that dining table doing outside ?
I guess it's to have dinner :)
Here's an older, original, less clear plan without dining table, maybe that helps!:
In the original sections they had a window well and it became that concrete tube on the side of the entry steps; I've always like these guys, but I thought they were more germanic with the process, it's nice to see they have that freedom.
It's weird it was left out in the cad plan, don't know why because it's such a key feature. So my guess is you know the plan and architect(s) very well.
It's the Blue House from Herzog & De Meuron. That sunken living room with freestanding fireplace looked familiar.
Blue
Living room
Correct! Here a nice article on the Blaues Haus: http://socks-studio.com/2016/10/21/the-blue-house-by-herzog-de-meuron-1979-80-and-an-interview-by-stanislaus-von-moos/
Here, another villa.
I knew that bloody oval looked familiair, thanks!
Yes, that's right, also known as Villa Snellman.
wow, that's a deceiving looking building. The plan is almost contemporary in design, but you would never guess by looking at its exterior. A true trojan horse.
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Quondam, where would you have liked to have gone to school?
Also, is that because of the building or the curriculum?
that is not built, it's a final school project for the Zurich school of architecture by a Spaniard.
it took me a while to find it, but Vitores post is clear - (proyecto final de carrera 2009) nice building.
That was a difficult one, so you would have wanted to study in Zürich, not a bad choice. The ETH also offers free online courses, ETHx via EdX might be something there.
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Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana - Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno La Padula and Mario Romano
was it too easy?
A bit, but a very characteristic plan of a style that hasn't been covered before!
(Fellini and Ekberg)
Speaking of easy...
Yes, that didn't take too long.
An easy one for one of the regulars here:
So weird to see how Graves work developed from this to filling the shelves of Target.
,
Next:
St. Benedictusberg Abbey, Vaals, Dom Hans van der Laan.
Yep correct!
link: http://socks-studio.com/2014/0...
Can someone please post a plan for me.
Sure!
I like that this is basically the opposite of the last plan you posted!
Me too!
Here it is:
An hommage to Hef! now post the second story plan.
2nd storey
and more
and final
So I guess quondam, you're up!
That hot dog hint could also mean Frankfurt(er)...
Doing google searches on mobile is sooo annoying
Without knowing or ever having seen the project, besides the plan posted here. It's OMA's submission for the new Campus for the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in 2013:
https://www.competitionline.co...
Found it just in time to edit my comment :)
http://afasiaarq.blogspot.nl/2...
Interesting project, where'd you find that one? Never seen it before myself.
The concrete model is pretty awesome
Next one (I'll be travelling so might take a while to check in):
goetheanum?
Goetheanum has more of a figure-8, Melnikov-house-type plan
My first instinct (based on the dome) was that this might be Otto Wagner's Steinhof Kirche. But that's definitely not it
I've never seen floor plans for either, and the goetheanum has that weird shaped shell, my bad.
so it's a byzantine/classical church plan annotated in German with Hector Guimard-esque lettering... I'm giving up looking for now, but this is an interesting one for sure
Max Berg, Centennial Hall (Jahrhunderthalle aka Hala Stulecia) 1911-1913 in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau), Poland
once I gave up thinking of this as a church because of the gigantic
scale, I just looked around for the largest concrete dome of the period I thought this is from
A Cathedral for Democracy
"Built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the four-day Battle of Leipzig in 1813.In this “Battle of Nations,” as it is also known, coalition forces from Austria, Germany, Russia, and Sweden won a decisive victory over Napoleon Bonaparte and his occupying armies.Designed by German architect Max Berg (1870–1947), Centennial Hall is equal in scale to the military event it memorializes."
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/ke... (with a neat construction sequence video)
https://en.wikiarquitectura.co...
apparently the construction workers did not want to pull the formwork after the concrete has been placed, for lack of trust in the 'new' material, until the architect started doing so with a few volunteers...
Well done, great research!
next:
hint: this architect's curvaceous work has already been featured in this thread
google image search returned "auto parts", ha!
Love it! Auto parts is actually a valid secondary hint that might help one find the architect earlier in this thread. Third hint: this is a church plan.
Reverse image search not allowed!
This building is in Vienna
I don't know, but while googling I came across this gem:
Auferstehung Christi, Karl Schwanzer
That's it!
By the way, the plan posted by a-f is for the Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit (Church of the Most Holy Trinity) by Fritz Wotruba, built around the same time (mid-70s) as Schwanzer's Auferstehung Christi (Church of the Ressurrection of Christ). Colloquially known as the Wotruba Church, it was notably erected on the former site of Nazi barracks.
Here's an easy one:
Yes!
Bump. I'm stumped. Somebody has to know it.
Is it the De La Garza Career Centre? I've seen that plan drawing before, but couldn't remember where or who it was by...
Argonne National Laboratory? This picture is the only one i coud find on google and is from a Dan Graham model of the building. Pretty sweet.
Ok, my turn. Wasn't really familiar with this project till a few years, wondering how well known it is:
My first thought was Castelvecchio, but no, that's not it. Might be a similar intervention in a medieval ruin?
I thought Castelvecchio as well. It's not?
No. Intervention in medieval ruins yes, but this is on Northern Europe.
Bingo!
Next:
Gordon Bunshaft's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Yes! Please claim your prize!
some images:
Ok, here we go:
Oyster bar gives it away: Downtown Athletic Club
https://youtu.be/gzsJsbGLTUY this has re-defined how I read that chapter of Delirious New York
Has this one been posted?
Always loved that drawing, how much of the master plan was actually built?
Enough of it ;)
I've been fascinated with this one ever since seeing a pretty damn good model of it on the wall in the halls of the first architecture school I went to, with a grade of "C" prominently displayed beside the model. Mat building extraordinaire.
google maps link to the real thing
http://socks-studio.com/2015/10/29/the-free-university-of-berlin-candilis-josic-woods-and-schiedhelm-1963/
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Love this plan. Diamond House B, 1963-67, John Hejduk
More here on his Diamond Projects:
https://journal.eahn.org/articles/10.5334/ah.cb/
It's Diamond Museum C, but let's allow it :) seemed an appropriate counterpoint to the Agadir project
http://socks-studio.com/2016/0...
Darn it, in the article I found and which is referenced by socks studio it's captioned House B. I knew it was Hejduk's Diamond Project but had to google for the specifics. Very disappointed :(
randimised, apparently people find it hard to keep up with Hejduk's nomenclature, but since you clearly knew what the drawing was you should post the next one :)
quondam, I recall discovering your website (this was before I signed up for this forum) when I was researching Hejduk in the latter half of grad school. Admittedly I am still baffled by your archive (and the incomprehensibly jaggy linework), but at the time (2010) it was the most comprehensive collection of evolutionary links between Corb's and Hejduk's projects. I don't know that I always "buy" your theories, or appreciate your own spin offs, but reading through all of that material you've gathered has at one time shaped a fair deal of my thinking. I don't imagine you would care, but my project ended up somewhere between the Diamond Museum and Mies' Neue Nationalgallerie, with a requisite dose of Jonathan Lasker (as per the instructor's requirements) - I really ought to revisit it when I find some time to do so...
Not instant, but doable if you can open the cad files in almost any current cad software, or even illustrator, fix the lineweights, and export as .pdfs or high res .png files... You can probably get an intern to blast through it in a summer, or somebody to write a script to do it... Info is great, but increasingly hard to look at these days. Anyways, that was my way of saying thanks :) looking forward to the next plan!
Also, if you can provide any further disambiguation between the Diamond projects beyond this quote from the socks-studio website, that would be great!
Whereas the three projects are, according to the architect, explorations of the formal implications of the “diamond canvases of Mondrian for architects of today”, each one focus on the implications of the diamond configuration via different elements such as columns (House A), planes (House B) and biomorphic shapes (Museum C).
Okay will post next, difficult to live up to this after this lecture ;)
Felix Nussbaum Haus by Daniel Libeskind.
pics:
I'm not a fan of Libeskind but I did like some of his early projects like this and the Berlin Jewish Museum. There was something punk about them that got lost when he became corporate.
Same here, really liked his early work when I was a student. Was curious to find out if the Nussbaum Haus was too easy or too obscure.
Might be obscure. I got the chance to see an exhibition of his models for this and some of his early projects at the beginning of the 2000's. They were quite beautiful and using unconventional materials for the time, like newspaper and other sort of re-used things. Very deconstructivist. So that project stuck with me.
Only ever saw pictures of those models, lucky you.
here we go. This architects are very trendy right now, specially by being somehow introduced into the pop culture.
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Bumping it right to the top of the forum page!
hints: in contrast to a previous post, this one is a Swiss project by non Swiss architects.
Bündner Kunstmuseum Extension by Barozzi Veiga
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/08...
Correct!
Next:
vitra fire station zha.
Yes!
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