ok...

it's in scandinavia.

ready steady go....

dude, seattle is rural. or is it backwards? maybe both...

one of my profs worked w/ wg clark.

it was my dream to work at clark & menefee when i came out of school in '91. didn't work out. never have gotten over it.

but i did get to visit their office in charleston and visit the inn.

House Into
Jyrki Tasa

Espoo, Finland

damn, that was too easy. um, is that a ship?

yeah, it was my dream to work for Tom Kundig. Got over that fast.

any clues?

Ian Athfield's own house in Wellington. Under construction since 1968. Derided as Noddy architecture. There's a great picture of Ernst Plischke visiting, looking somewhat concerned and peering down one of those tubular light-shafts.

looks like a cross between the something one of the metabolists might have proposed and that wowee-zowee 70s project called 'xanadu'.

Surely a downside of an extremely long-term building program is that the architect might lose interest in the "affair," somewhere along the way ?

agfa8x, laurentian library by michelangelo?

i was gonna say the teatro olimpico by palladio...

eh... i'm wrong.

good job larslarson!

Yeah, Teatro Olimpico. Scenae by Palladio, with a forced-perspective space at the back by Scamozzi. Michelangelo is much more plastic and uses heavy, forceful masses. The Laurentian library vestibule looks like it's attacking you.

it also has that very famous stair...
we actually had to build the portico for the laurentian library
full scale out of cardboard while i was in school..so i knew
that wasn't it...that and i've been to the teatro...a very nice
powerful little space.

< bump >


lars is it your pick?

sorry..i'm dropping the ball..i intended to locate a particularly
obscure building that i like..but i couldn't find the magazine
last night...i'll have one after lunch

isn't this a showroom by sauerbruch + hutton or barkow leibinger?

it is a showroom...but not by either of those.

i figured you'd be the one to get this btw.

i know of seen this recently.

ah, kaldewei bolles + wilson

yep.
i figured you'd get it...since it was in your area.
one of my favorite architects.

no hints on this one, i've seen it a lot lately.

ok...

1. he's in the photos

2. his father was an architect

3. he attended he ETH

he is Valerio Olgiati... project: House for a Musician.

ok, since I know I'm right I'll just post this (mostly because the photo is so surreal):

"How ro make a real photo look like a model shot" ?

looks like claymation

totally, but i can't help liking it. for some reason.

Yeah. Where's Thomas -- or a Plastictown glow-in-the-dark streetlamp ?

What is this, really ? Is it possible to manipulate depth-of-focus that way ? Fascinating.

i think its called tilt shifting, although i'm not sure if that's the same photographer as covered in bldgblog. surreal either way:

I'm *still* looking for the source of the following quote, roughly paraphrased:

"The building is merely the necessary object standing between the drawings and the photographs. . ."

It was a quip by some wag like Philip Johnson; I read it about fifteen years ago.

The photo is from a german photographer called Marc Räder. He made a series of similar photographs for this architecture firm, but I can't find any of them online. Here's more well-known project by the same office (in collaboration):

well that's dorte mandrup

in collaboration with?

deine mutti

sorry, uncalled for.

i have no idea.

b&k+ brandlhuber & co?

Comment on the design: what an interesting lasdscape a city might become, if each new infill were required to match the profile of the adjacent building(s) !

ok so the house is Vaalser Quartier by b&k+ brandlhuber

Yes, b&k+. They are a bit overlooked, but make very interesting projects (or made - I'm not sure if the office still exists)

i agree, thanks for introducing them, never heard of them before. I really like their "neanderthal" project.

next up:

oh, that's byron mouton's house in new orleans. i think his company's called 'bild', right?

i was in school with byron. wasn't the chapel he did with eskew on this thread earlier?

ooh, i figured that was in the south

probably too easy:

steven, i'll refrain from posting because it would be cheating. i've seen the building of course... in your flickr page. it is very nice. also, the chairs in the first pic make a lovely pattern.

a-f, i got confused. who's the architect for the building in your post of 10/11/07 9:57 ? any info on that?

aml:

The project is a sports hall in Copenhagen by Dorte Mandrup and B&K+ in collaboration.

thanks! it's a nice example of drawing from the context.

steven.. yeah i also put that up there... i thought i'd throw you for a loop since he branched out and started bild it after eskew, but i figured you'd get it. I really like his work down there, he has an interesting approach to "modernizing" and reconfiguring the new orleans vernacular. I saw the house right before Katrina, he was actually living in another one of his project's at the time but i think liked that one so much he ended up moving.