I've been spending a long afternoon searching for Top Roofs on Google Maps. And here they are.T-house from Simon Ungers, who was brilliantVilla dall'ava from OMAPalais Bulles from Antti Lovag Of course Casa Malaparte from Curzio Malaparte And here, some rooftops that are just a little less spectacular:Parish house from System ArchitectsChemosphere from Bucky FullerStahl house from Pierre KoenigCasa de Vidro from Lina Bo BardiKundmanngasse from Ludwig Wittgenstein Follow the links above or, if you have del.icio.us; you can save them from my links.
ow... chemosphere by lautner
fun. a few: Corbusier's Unité d'habitation in Marseille, France Koolhaas' Casa Da Musica in Porto MVRDV's wozoko housing in Amsterdam Utzon's Sydney Opera
@ google maps
by luigi moretti (corner of via giovanni schiaparelli & viale bruno buozzi)
I'm looking for 'capsule house k' by kisho kurokawa (karuizawa, nagano) and 'upper lawn pavillion' by alison and peter smithson (salisbury) ... Anyone?
FOA's Yokohama International Port Terminal
in Rome - like 3 beetles sitting around a dining table.
Koolhaas Kunsthal in Rotterdam and Educatorium in Utrecht nice rooftops
great thread. Salk Insitutehttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=10100+N+Torrey+Pines+Road,+La+Jolla,+CA+92037&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=32.887115,-117.246102&spn=0.00168,0.002835&t=k&om=1
while we're on kahn...national assembly
at google maps (more at twentieth century society)
you can't see much but hexenhaus by the smithsons is where the arrow is...
best one yet. diamond ranch high school, morphosishttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=diamond+bar,+california&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=34.021804,-117.779494&spn=0.002396,0.006051&t=k&om=1
nice one design_junky... top of the roofs!
ernest, how did you find the address of the hexenhaus?
I'm old and grey, p2an, I visited the house when I was a student... I've got the telephone number of the owner too... you can have it if you want.
have we not done this one yet?
...and bauhaus
TheArchitect showed us l'unité d'habitation de Marseille, this is the one of Rezé and this one is in Berlin.This is Pessac by Le Corbusier, and this is the olympic stadium of Beijing.
by HdeM
/\ | nice
ok..that didn't work
Eisenmann's Jewish Holocaust Meomorial in berlin + of course mies' masterpiece, and Dutch Embassy by OMA
looks pretty amazing from above, and nearby you can see construction on Coop Himmelblau's BMW Welt addition, including that massive vortex thingee
I love munich olympic stadt from above, Jkap! And Eisenman his memorial is great too...
yeah, when the fotos are taken on sunny days - wow! so sharp!
UN studio's La Defense Office in Almere
modernist classics Niemeyer Catedral de Brasilia and the Congress building Blurry image from weissenhof with villas from curbusier, mies, gropius, behrens, oud etc
ok this is kinda addictive HdeM's prada store tokyo and Forum Building in barcelona (photo from construction)
at expo 2000
speaking of...does anyone know what happened to local.live.com for aerial views?
pompidou is a nice one
and the buckminster fuller dome, montreal
looking for 'asphalt spot' by r&sie, can't find it...
capri Casa Malaparte ... as seen in le Mepris, Godard
oops, again la casa
ok sorry i didn't even notice this bb was listed at the very top
oops, here it is...in the middle of the pagehttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=halifax,+canada&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=35.09787,-106.594956&spn=0.001624,0.00339&t=k&iwloc=A
mvrdv's Flight Forum urban plan
i love the pixellated area to the north west of the Flight Forum.. to secret something area.
i love the pixellated area to the north west of the Flight Forum.. tod secret something area.
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I've been spending a long afternoon searching for Top Roofs on Google Maps. And here they are.
T-house from Simon Ungers, who was brilliant
Villa dall'ava from OMA
Palais Bulles from Antti Lovag
Of course Casa Malaparte from Curzio Malaparte
And here, some rooftops that are just a little less spectacular:
Parish house from System Architects
Chemosphere from Bucky Fuller
Stahl house from Pierre Koenig
Casa de Vidro from Lina Bo Bardi
Kundmanngasse from Ludwig Wittgenstein
Follow the links above or, if you have del.icio.us; you can save them from my links.
ow... chemosphere by lautner
fun.
a few:
Corbusier's Unité d'habitation in Marseille, France
Koolhaas' Casa Da Musica in Porto
MVRDV's wozoko housing in Amsterdam
Utzon's Sydney Opera
@ google maps
by luigi moretti (corner of via giovanni schiaparelli & viale bruno buozzi)
I'm looking for 'capsule house k' by kisho kurokawa (karuizawa, nagano) and 'upper lawn pavillion' by alison and peter smithson (salisbury) ... Anyone?
FOA's Yokohama International Port Terminal
in Rome - like 3 beetles sitting around a dining table.
Koolhaas Kunsthal in Rotterdam
and Educatorium in Utrecht
nice rooftops
great thread.
Salk Insitute
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10100+N+Torrey+Pines+Road,+La+Jolla,+CA+92037&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=32.887115,-117.246102&spn=0.00168,0.002835&t=k&om=1
while we're on kahn...
national assembly
at google maps (more at twentieth century society)
you can't see much but hexenhaus by the smithsons is where the arrow is...
best one yet.
diamond ranch high school, morphosis
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=diamond+bar,+california&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=34.021804,-117.779494&spn=0.002396,0.006051&t=k&om=1
nice one design_junky... top of the roofs!
ernest, how did you find the address of the hexenhaus?
I'm old and grey, p2an, I visited the house when I was a student... I've got the telephone number of the owner too... you can have it if you want.
have we not done this one yet?
...and bauhaus
TheArchitect showed us l'unité d'habitation de Marseille, this is the one of Rezé and this one is in Berlin.
This is Pessac by Le Corbusier, and this is the olympic stadium of Beijing.
by HdeM
/\
|
nice
ok..that didn't work
Eisenmann's Jewish Holocaust Meomorial in berlin
+ of course mies' masterpiece,
and Dutch Embassy by OMA
Eisenmann's Jewish Holocaust Meomorial in berlin
+ of course mies' masterpiece,
and Dutch Embassy by OMA
looks pretty amazing from above, and nearby you can see construction on Coop Himmelblau's BMW Welt addition, including that massive vortex thingee
I love munich olympic stadt from above, Jkap! And Eisenman his memorial is great too...
yeah, when the fotos are taken on sunny days - wow! so sharp!
UN studio's La Defense Office in Almere
modernist classics
Niemeyer Catedral de Brasilia
and the Congress building
Blurry image from weissenhof with villas from curbusier, mies, gropius, behrens, oud etc
ok this is kinda addictive
HdeM's prada store tokyo
and Forum Building in barcelona (photo from construction)
"its what people from the sixties imagined life would be like in 1987"
at expo 2000
speaking of...does anyone know what happened to local.live.com for aerial views?
pompidou is a nice one
@ google maps
and the buckminster fuller dome, montreal
looking for 'asphalt spot' by r&sie, can't find it...
capri Casa Malaparte ... as seen in le Mepris, Godard
oops, again la casa
ok sorry i didn't even notice this bb was listed at the very top
oops, here it is...in the middle of the page
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=halifax,+canada&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=19&ll=35.09787,-106.594956&spn=0.001624,0.00339&t=k&iwloc=A
mvrdv's Flight Forum urban plan
i love the pixellated area to the north west of the Flight Forum..
to secret something area.
i love the pixellated area to the north west of the Flight Forum..
tod secret something area.
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