don't have anything ready, anyhow you were first.

Okey-dokey

Mendota Boat House, flw

Eek. What A Aalto would be doing, today. . .?

Shim-Sutcliffe Architects - the 24m house for a musician (w/ it's own concert hall!)

One look at the pool, with drop windows, to say nothing of the rest of it, and one wonders that the owner was nervous about cost. . .

Pretty nifty.

that pool is fucking amazing.

that pool made me *sigh*...too late for violin lessons...phuyake'...your turn to stun us!

yeah, i'm a little confused as to why someone would unload ALL their savings on a $24m house, when probably $6-8m would have been equally spectactular... but i'm not eccentric. or loaded...

that really is a beautiful place, but I'd like to see more of the elevations

sheez - 24m?! I like the house, but... wow.

I thought musicians were of the 'starving artist' class. . .

Apparently he earned his millions writing calculus textbooks, who knew. It is a gorgeous house, except I think it falls apart a bit with the kitchen. The pool makes up for it tho.

Next, how about something a bit more humble:

and some little construction drawings/details:

wow...this is quite a project...i wonder if the sense of scale aids the serenity of the space...

anyways, rotondi worked on a buddhist forest retreat and made the sketch below, which i thought could be this...but i was wrong..


the use of the wood (especially the exterior wood shown in the second picture) makes me think this is "literally" asian.

It's evident that the dome is translucent. I wonder what it's made of. . .

most likely rice paper.

the burnt larch is hot.
i saw this the other day, amazing little project, phu. would never guess it's in praɦa

yeah simples, as holz points out, for all it's Asian attributes, it's interesting that this little tea house is on the outskirts of Prague, designed by a Czech firm (that shares their name with steak sauce).

David Maštálka of A1 Architects collaborated with sculptor Vojtech Bilisic to create the sacred tea house.

you know, i ran out of interesting relatively unknown but accessible projects to post for a while here...so, i've stopped playing for a while, even though i like to keep the thread moving by trying to guess the location...but given your various clear hints, i just had to go for it....




i will come up with something soon, but in the meantime, if anyone else has something interesting, please keep the thread moving!!!

different strategy...it's a more "known" building, and a detailed oriented person, might recognize it from this shot:

a more recognizable detail of the same building...

Glass Pavilion at Toledo Museum of Art, by SANAA, Ltd

damn. good one, that first image had me perplexed! iconic!

Me too. I could see curved butted glass, etc -- but WTF. . .!

Okay, here's another oldie for the moldy oldy crowd (and friends).

That's got to be in Arizona, New Mexico or California just by the color of the sunlight.

Don't tell me it is John Lautner?

Well. . .okay, I won't tell you it's John Lautner.

Okay, more stuffy old architecture from H&R for the SERIOUSLY old schoolers.

Ahem. . .you, or someone else, has to name the building. At least that's how it's been played so far. . .

Mauer Residence.

The only international styled buildings I know of almost all are exclusively in the desert southwest.

International style. . .uh-huh.

so we're still playing this one?

Yes but something tells me you might have won.

No I only found this cover, have no clue besides that it's in Britain.

John Vanbrugh - Blenheim Palace.

randomized you can post one, if not I'll try and find one in a bit

Well since this thread has been on a roll, I'll post another; this one also a pretty well known building:

Modern church in Stykkisolmur, Iceland

not iceland, but a bit southeast from there

gottfried böhm, pilgrimage church

damn. i thought it may have been wotruba's Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit in vienna

Wonderful, both of them. One sees Stonehenge with new eyes. . .

Aren't we extraordinarily lucky, to have witnessed the twentieth century, when architecture finally broke new ground with a vengeance ?

wow holz that church is something, the Bohhm church almost looks like a mountain range from the outside:



I always liked brutalist religious architecture, usually so heavy and foreboding in the exterior but cavernous and light filled on the interior. Hillandrock you're up again.

Regular mode: Guess the badly translated name.

HARD MODE: Guess the architect.
NIGHTMARE MODE: Guess the name and architect is its native language.

(You'll understand when you find out what it is.)

here's my best:
Dzhalagania and Chakhava - Ministry of Transportation in Tbilisi (Georgia)

Nice!

I couldn't find the architect anywhere because I was searching for the poorly translated building name-- "State Department for Traffic Building."

Google doesn't pick up too many hits for their name so I'm not even sure if it's 100% correct, but one thing's for sure is that there's some crazy soviet-era architecture out there.

Next, this one might be tough:

smells so much like Bauhaus that i went through a book i have on auxiliary or secondary buildings done by the faculty, and although it does bear some resemblance with the Meisterhausers designed by Gropius, i couldn't find a match...I still smell Bauhaus...

also, note the car on the second image...:)