- must be a plan published by others and noteworthy
- black and white if possible
- you guess correct >>>you post next.
we shall start off easy -
archietechie
Jun 18, 17 2:06 am
Barca Pavilion - Mies ;)
Should also mention, no cheating via google reverse image search.
Edit: Can't seem to add images while editting comments so I'll pass.
Wilma Buttfit
Jun 18, 17 10:27 am
Easy one, we should all know the Barcelona Pavilion. I'll take over for you, techie.
I've never visited this one in person myself though. On my bucket list.
archietechie
Jun 18, 17 11:45 am
You have my thanks ;)
Interesting plan. Had me there for a moment as I could've swore this could be Oscar Niemeyer's handiwork.
Cleanwithpure
Aug 29, 20 5:07 am
Thanks, tintt
Cleanwithpure
Aug 29, 20 5:07 am
Very intelligent
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Jun 18, 17 11:05 am
Eero Saarinen's MIT Chapel.
Next:
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Jun 18, 17 3:17 pm
It's two separate buildings with outdoor space between the two, but one project. Some hints, it's a Swedish religious structure consecrated 11 years later than tintt's building above.
sarah123
Jun 18, 17 8:48 pm
Easy... Bauhaus Building, Dessau
sarah123
Jun 18, 17 8:54 pm
Not a plan I realize...
Sarah Lorenzen
Jun 18, 17 8:57 pm
Try this one instead
Orhan Ayyüce
Jun 18, 17 10:04 pm
that looks like oma's kunsthalle in rotterdam
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Jun 18, 17 11:00 pm
The isometric is the house and studio for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo by Juan O'Gorman.
placebeyondthesplines
Sep 3, 17 6:01 pm
*axonometric, isometric drawings make all 90° angles into 120° angles
Sarah Lorenzen
Jun 18, 17 11:21 pm
Both of you are correct. Hi Orhan.
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Jun 18, 17 11:48 pm
I think FRIDA was the last movie I saw in a theater. Anyway...
citizen
Jun 19, 17 8:20 pm
FLW's Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco
good details
Jun 19, 17 12:22 am
FLW - Xanadu Gallery!
b3tadine[sutures]
Jun 19, 17 1:18 am
Tadao Ando - Church of Light
threadkilla
Jun 19, 17 2:08 am
Raymund Abraham's epic House for Music / Musikerhaus
Orhan never picked a plan for us to guess... here's the next one:
threadkilla
Jun 19, 17 2:08 pm
hint: the project
was published (probably for the first time) in 1928
threadkilla
Jun 20, 17 2:23 pm
Quondam nailed it! Please pick the next plan for us to guess.
threadkilla
Jun 20, 17 2:33 pm
Chris, yes that's the "general plan" for the whole project. I will try scanning the other drawings from the Film Factory proposal and posting them here in a bit. Leonidov is a fascinating character, mostly notable because of the influence his student work (mostly the project for the Lenin Institute and Library) was acknowledged for having on Koolhaas/OMA/Rem's archi-progeny...
threadkilla
Jun 20, 17 2:34 pm
I. Leonidov, Lenin Institute (elevation, plan)
threadkilla
Jul 6, 17 2:58 pm
yes! the Voluntary Prisoners project draws some pretty direct influence from Leonidov's work on linear cities, such as his project for Magnitogorsk
while projects like OMA's Zeebrugge Terminal have been compared to the library building in Leonidov's Lenin Institute project (glass sphere held down by tension wires, see above)
I will try to scan the Moscow Film Factory drawings this weekend
Dzejk94
Jun 19, 17 3:50 am
Hi student here, got myself quite a puzzle.
Cant find no info, only got this picture. Any ideas anyone? Gotta solve it before the exam next week :V
threadkilla
Jun 19, 17 1:59 pm
1. not a plan 2. you did not guess one, you don't get to suggest one 3. do you think there might be a purpose to your teachers not giving you the full info prior to the exam? consult class notes and do some research ffs
threadkilla
Jul 6, 17 3:13 pm
did you ever figure it out?
It's a gorgeous graphite drawing, and the author's signature (illegible as it may be) is in the bottom right corner... On first look it bears a resemblance to M. Ginzburg's Narkomfin building, but it seems to have a distinctly southern european or maybe latin american vibe... The underside of the looming block (presumably of apartments, or maybe offices) is really interesting in that it seems to have some extraordinary curvature to it, and is split down the middle by a spine of glass (light fixtures?)... Beside the obvious nods to the 'five points' - pilotis, ribbon windows, free facade - the curved glass mass tucked under the main block further hints at some sort of a relation to Corbusier, in the same manner that Albert Frey's Loewy House does (see further down)
This is a landscape project designed by an architect for a culturally-important group of buildings. It's not a building, but this is this architect's most famous work, by far.
b3tadine[sutures]
Jun 22, 17 7:27 pm
Jardim Colombo, Sao Paulo?
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Jun 22, 17 7:44 pm
No, but the date mentioned on the Wikipedia page that comes up when I google your suggestion is roughly a decade later than this project. This is in the northern hemisphere.
threadkilla
Jun 23, 17 5:19 pm
took a little bit of digging around, but once I figured out the site is the Acropolis, I could track down some really good info about this landscape project by Demetris Pikionis. Amazing project, questions the very notion of what a plan drawing is, and how it's translated into built form.
‘Plans and instructions are insufficient here, for the plan is not applicable as it stands, but serves only as a model representing a general idea which requires constant interpretation...what should be kept in mind is the ancient Greek motto, ‘make haste slowly'
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Jun 24, 17 12:11 am
Yes! Next, please.
JLC-1
Jun 22, 17 6:45 pm
1966, by a harvard alumni
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Jun 27, 17 6:02 pm
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) by Emilio Duhart.
I'll post another plan shortly.
threadkilla
Jun 24, 17 8:28 am
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Marc Miller
Jun 24, 17 8:52 am
Casa Malaparte, Adalberto Libera.
(I've just realized I need to figure out the previous building first.)
Marc Miller
Jun 24, 17 9:20 am
Oh - wait. never mind
threadkilla
Jun 25, 17 4:23 pm
Chris_Teeter - I suppose it does, especially when seen in close proximity to the Church of the Light plan
Marc Miller - well done!
threadkilla
Jun 25, 17 4:42 pm
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Marc Miller
Jun 25, 17 5:21 pm
Love that house.
Marc Miller
Jun 24, 17 9:22 am
Next
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Jun 24, 17 10:39 am
Herzog and de Meuron with Ai Weiwei,
Serpentine Pavilion, 2012
archietechie
Jun 28, 17 5:22 pm
Fuck me! That's gorgeous!
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Jun 24, 17 10:51 am
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Wilma Buttfit
Jun 24, 17 11:30 am
Lina Bo Bardi - SECS Pompeia. The corridors on the right give it away.
I don't have a plan to post. Anyone?
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Jun 25, 17 2:11 pm
Next:
threadkilla
Jun 25, 17 4:16 pm
Gio Ponti, Planchart residence in Caracas, 1954
I want to say 3rd floor plan - since that drawing is not in the Aria d'Italia volume on Ponti that is on my desk, and that monograph has drawings of the basement (1st) and ground (2nd) floors
threadkilla
Jun 25, 17 5:04 pm
not strictly a plan drawing, but I felt like including the elevation and axon as hints, because most hints for this project would probably be a dead giveaway and the drawings are gorgeous
threadkilla
Jun 26, 17 2:57 am
second hint: it's a project developed in close collaboration between an architect and an artist, both native to that region
threadkilla
Jun 26, 17 1:09 pm
third hint: The artist has said that he did not chose this place for his art, but that the place chose him.
JLC-1
Jun 26, 17 1:57 pm
el peine del viento in san sebastian
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Jun 26, 17 8:40 pm
Such a fascinating project! I haven't heard of this before.
threadkilla
Jun 27, 17 5:18 am
JLC-1 got it! Somebody better guess what the Corb of a plan he posted earlier (I only got as far as figuring out the Josep Lluis Sert was likely Dean at the time the designer in question graduated from Harvard) or he can pick and post
another one.
threadkilla
Jun 27, 17 5:26 am
Eduardo Chillida's Wind Combs (Peine del Viento) with Plaza del Tenis designed in collaboration with Luis Peña Ganchegui, completed in 1977
Yeah, I figure, it's an awesome building, but largely unknown.
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Jun 28, 17 9:15 pm
Oh dear, you know there's a book about this project. I'm going to have to read that!
randomised
Jun 27, 17 2:02 am
This thread makes me feel like such a noob, only guessed the obvious Mies, OMA, Malaparte and Serpentine. Would be fun to do the same thread with only detail drawings to really make me feel I wasted all those years studying and still know nothing.
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Jun 27, 17 9:22 pm
Next:
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Jun 27, 17 10:53 pm
The architect sees it as more sacred than a house but less sacred than a church.
senjohnblutarsky
Jun 28, 17 8:54 am
I would assume it's a tea house, but then I have no clue beyond that.
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Jun 28, 17 9:17 am
No, it's more final than that.
b3tadine[sutures]
Jun 28, 17 9:32 am
Lenin's Tomb
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Jun 28, 17 9:36 am
Not quite that final; final, but transitory.
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Jun 28, 17 1:46 pm
Here's a hint. This image is not of the building in question; however, the building depicted has at least one thing in common with it.
a-f
Jun 28, 17 4:31 pm
Gion Caminada, renovation, Vrin
The picture below gave it away!
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Jun 28, 17 4:33 pm
Right architect, right location, which project are you referring to?
a-f
Jun 28, 17 4:36 pm
Google says "Stiva da Morts". I've been to Vrin but can't recall every Caminada building there.
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Jun 28, 17 4:38 pm
Yes, Stiva da morts.
Non Sequitur
Jun 28, 17 4:44 pm
Hey, no googling. That's cheating.
threadkilla
Jun 28, 17 5:41 pm
that's an amazing plan with crazy corners! never heard of this project or architect
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Jun 28, 17 6:13 pm
Yes, the Stiva da morts is one of my favorite buildings (based on what I've read, haven't been able to visit).
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Jun 28, 17 6:22 pm
I timed-out, anyway, the hint image is one of Zumthor's vacation houses, which also use stickbau.
Stiva da morts:
a-f
Jun 28, 17 4:35 pm
Next!
(I love this, it's like the ancient thread "Name that building")
Evan Chakroff
Jun 28, 17 4:43 pm
habitat 67?
Non Sequitur
Jun 28, 17 4:46 pm
Def not habita.
Evan Chakroff
Jun 28, 17 4:47 pm
i should have known (by looking)
Non Sequitur
Jun 28, 17 4:47 pm
I'd say it's spanish, has a modernistic gaudi feel to it.
archietechie
Jun 28, 17 5:15 pm
My first guess was Nakagin Capsule Tower...and I realized it's footprint can't be that huge.
JLC-1
Jun 28, 17 5:34 pm
walden7?
threadkilla
Jun 28, 17 5:36 pm
Jose Antonio Coderch and Manuel Valls, Las Cocheras / Garage Apartments 1968-73!
threadkilla
Jun 28, 17 5:39 pm
I have about 100 photographs from when I visited there in 2010 :) amazing brickwork all over the place, great semi-private courtyards, and the gate to the property is a Gaudi original that was left when the parking garage, which once occupied the site, was demolished to make way for the housing project.
(with a bronze bust of Gaudi nearby, I believe)
threadkilla
Jun 28, 17 5:44 pm
JLC-1 Bofill's Walden 7 is bigger, and has more interior voids, but definitely a similar approach to generating diversity
through repetition and symmetry in plan
threadkilla
Oct 23, 17 1:41 am
the Gaudi gate, my photo :)
threadkilla
Jun 28, 17 5:54 pm
easy one because I want to see someone guess it who hasn't participated yet (shame on all who have to google around for this one)
JLC-1
Jun 28, 17 5:57 pm
this was the evil seed for that sin, postmodernism.
threadkilla
Jun 28, 17 6:02 pm
does it even need hints? everything is in the drawing!
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Jun 28, 17 6:34 pm
let's hope not!
Non Sequitur
Jun 28, 17 8:25 pm
Moore's Italia Piazza.
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Jun 28, 17 9:22 pm
I hadn't noticed the similarity between that plan and Lebbeus Woods' Concentric Field until just now.
threadkilla
Jun 29, 17 3:39 pm
that's pretty cool, also reminds me of another plan drawing, which i might post here later ;)
threadkilla
Jul 13, 17 3:55 pm
cropped version of Piranesi's roof plan etching for the Pantheon...
Non Sequitur
Jun 28, 17 8:29 pm
My turn... I've been waiting to snag the spotlight!
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Jun 28, 17 9:02 pm
Le Corbusier's Plan Obus for Algiers
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Jun 28, 17 9:13 pm
Non Sequitur, will you post a plan for me?
Non Sequitur
Jun 28, 17 10:08 pm
Here JW, one of my favs.
threadkilla
Jun 29, 17 1:51 am
The Monadnock Building in Chicago by Holabird and Roche.
half of it, actually. Here is the half by Burnham and Root:
threadkilla
Jun 29, 17 2:08 am
The bay windows hint at the fact this is built in Chicago in 1880-1890s, and it is a memorable office plan in a building that set so many historic firsts. I also recommend looking into Owen Aldis for anyone interested in the developer behind some of Chicago's most notable early modern buildings
Non Sequitur
Jun 29, 17 8:56 am
Good work
threadkilla
Jun 29, 17 12:11 pm
two floor plans, same building
threadkilla
Jun 29, 17 3:40 pm
hint: it's an unbuilt project, planned for the same city as above...
threadkilla
Jun 29, 17 5:16 pm
last hint: the architect would be turning 150 years old this year. I'm out of internet's reach for the next 4 days, good luck! if nobody gets this one by end of today, just move on for now - maybe Teeter can pick one
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Jun 29, 17 9:53 pm
Is it Frank Lloyd Wright's National Life Insurance Building, 1923?
threadkilla
Jul 4, 17 1:16 pm
yes, jw468!
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Jun 29, 17 10:20 pm
Next plan, assuming I was correct:
a-f
Jun 30, 17 4:01 am
Something in Japan, judging from the tatami layout?
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Jun 30, 17 7:57 am
Yes.
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Jun 30, 17 12:45 pm
Indirectly related image:
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Jun 30, 17 5:52 pm
Yes, the Imperial Hotel. Look closer at those involved with the hotel, not Wright's other work.
Another indirectly related image:
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Jun 30, 17 6:00 pm
One more related image:
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Jun 30, 17 8:57 pm
Yes, Raymond.
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Jul 1, 17 12:45 pm
Raymond + Corbusier = ?
a-f
Jul 1, 17 1:59 pm
Is it Antonin Raymond's Summer House? Inspired by (or a copy of) Le Corbusier's Mattias Errázuris House?
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Jul 1, 17 2:14 pm
Yes!
a-f
Jul 1, 17 2:22 pm
Interesting project. Never heard of it. I originally followed exactly the same path as Chris from FLW to Raymond, but thought it was a long shot. There are no plans to be found online, and recent photos don't show the original retaining wall that is so present in the plan.
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Jul 1, 17 11:57 pm
Yeah, it's an interesting house. It's been awhile since I read about it; however, if I remember correctly, Corbusier was initially not happy about the house at all, but at some point came around and included it in his Oeuvre Complète, in the third volume, I think, as an application of his principles.
a-f
Jul 1, 17 2:24 pm
Ok, here's another one.
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Jul 1, 17 11:49 pm
Kahn was my first thought, too, because of its similarity to the Trenton Bath House.
a-f
Jul 2, 17 4:28 am
Not Kahn, but clearly inspired by him. But there is an even stronger connection to somebody mentioned earlier in this thread: John Hejduk
a-f
Jul 2, 17 9:29 am
I don't know the details, but I can imagine that Hejduk helped to introduce the work of his reclusive friend to a broader audience in the US in his last years. Here's another plan of him:
a-f
Jul 3, 17 3:22 am
No
threadkilla
Jul 4, 17 1:58 pm
that Nordic Pavilion plan is awesome
b3tadine[sutures]
Jul 3, 17 10:28 pm
.
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Jul 4, 17 1:40 am
Lina Bo Bardi, Glass House.
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Jul 4, 17 1:47 am
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a-f
Jul 4, 17 2:52 am
My first thought was a villa from Paulo Mendes da Rocha, but it doesn't have a pool.
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Jul 4, 17 1:13 pm
Think hot, dry, glamorous, and mountainous. Also, a pictorial hint:
threadkilla
Jul 4, 17 1:31 pm
Loewy House by Albert Frey. The hint about the setting made me think Palm Springs right away, and all those rocks in plan suggested Frey's work.
threadkilla
Jul 4, 17 2:01 pm
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a-f
Jul 4, 17 2:37 pm
SOM?
threadkilla
Jul 4, 17 3:09 pm
yes, but which building?
threadkilla
Jul 5, 17 1:52 am
when it was completed in same year as Mies' Seagram building in NY - 1958 - it was one of the first skyscrapers to be built in Chicago's Loop in 20 years...
it also has the material it was built from as a namesake...
a-f
Jul 5, 17 5:02 am
The Inland Steel Building. Beautiful.
threadkilla
Jul 5, 17 11:05 am
you got it!
threadkilla
Jul 5, 17 11:15 am
The design was started by Walter Netsch, who made the decision to move the service core out from the office floorplates (would be impossible with contemporary codes), and completed under Bruce Graham, who moved the columns past the floorplate perimeter.
it also has steel foundation pilings, which is uncharacteristic for Chicago
a-f, you should pick a plan while people are trying to guess Nam's random challenge? it is supposed to be your turn, and maybe having two ongoing guess matches can keep this thread flowing a bit smoother...
this has been a very interesting thread, Teeter - thank you for that!
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Jul 8, 17 11:23 pm
It has been interesting and has introduced me to architects I was previously unaware of!
Chris_Teeter, as the thread starter, can you post another plan?
Nam Henderson
Jul 5, 17 1:39 am
Randomly came across this image today, thought why not post? I suck at this game...
threadkilla
Jul 6, 17 2:41 pm
it looks like the ground floor of a public building, either hotel or institutional (guessing by security/front desk location)...
Nam Henderson
Jul 6, 17 11:33 pm
One of your two guesses is correct
randomised
Jul 6, 17 3:18 am
Is it Canadian?
threadkilla
Jul 6, 17 4:06 pm
the rooms are labelled in French (salle petit dejeuner = breakfast hall), so if it is Canadian, it'd likely be located in Quebec... could also be a sign that the architect is either
French or Belgian?
Nam Henderson
Jul 6, 17 11:34 pm
and it is in Paris
randomised
Jul 7, 17 8:35 am
I remember the building vividly with a bright green facade but am drawing blanks for anything else, I hate this game...
so - Hipark Hotel by Manuel Gautrand, for the record. It's got a neat figural quality! I would have never got there on my own.
randomised and a-f owe some plan picks
randomised
Jul 10, 17 2:24 pm
In all fairness, I didn't guess the plan, I only remembered the colour of the facade. Should have known it was Gautrand, I used to like here projects, kind of lost touch I guess. But okay I'm game.
randomised
Jul 10, 17 2:29 pm
Here it goes:
randomised
Jul 11, 17 2:04 am
It's actually a one family home that includes a studio for guests.
JLC-1
Jul 11, 17 11:22 am
it was hard to find, at first I looked into H&dM, never heard of Mark Magazine either; found Peripheriques work quite interesting.
MAISON GO, THIONVILLE
randomised
Jul 11, 17 1:52 pm
Yeah, really bold, playful,
conceptual, colour full and French, Manuelle Gautrand got me thinking of them again.
randomised
Jul 12, 17 3:45 am
Yes, it's deceiving, that's why I thought it would be a nice one for this thread :) More info here: http://www.peripheriques-archi...
randomised
Jul 11, 17 5:22 am
Hint: The architects were prominently featured in one of the first Mark Magazines.
a-f
Jul 11, 17 6:45 am
Here's something a little different:
JLC-1
Jul 11, 17 10:14 am
that's a pezo-von elrich.... thing. an installation for a park if I remember correctly.
randomised
Jul 11, 17 10:40 am
The previous plan, that I probably shouldn't have posted, is still in the running btw :)
a-f
Jul 11, 17 10:43 am
Yes, I think that will pass as a correct answer!
"120 Doors" by Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Concepción.
threadkilla
Jul 11, 17 3:27 pm
really interesting to look at this plan in relation to Hejduk's plan for the House for Two Borthers posted earlier
JLC-1
Jul 11, 17 11:27 am
1964 Same country as above.
a-f
Jul 11, 17 12:15 pm
I know this one, but I should let somebody else play :)
the plan does not have the same punch as the section, but is still extremely well resolved, and the curvature of the first tier balcony is the distinctive element that instantly gave the project away (for me). Revit? can you even imagine trying to resolve that ceiling in Revit???
threadkilla
Jul 12, 17 2:47 pm
here's an easy one to get more people playing - please try to restrain yourself if you have already guessed and posted a plan in here, let's give someone who has been feeling left out a chance :)
senjohnblutarsky
Jul 12, 17 3:17 pm
Pantheon Rome.
senjohnblutarsky
Jul 12, 17 3:24 pm
And another.
senjohnblutarsky
Jul 12, 17 10:00 pm
Nope. Correct continent. Wrong country.
senjohnblutarsky
Jul 13, 17 7:53 am
Nope. Lots of concrete. Has some nice column connections.
guidelines (Federal!)
- must be a plan published by others and noteworthy
- black and white if possible
- you guess correct >>>you post next.
we shall start off easy -
Barca Pavilion - Mies ;)
Should also mention, no cheating via google reverse image search.
Edit: Can't seem to add images while editting comments so I'll pass.
Easy one, we should all know the Barcelona Pavilion. I'll take over for you, techie.
I've never visited this one in person myself though. On my bucket list.
You have my thanks ;)
Interesting plan. Had me there for a moment as I could've swore this could be Oscar Niemeyer's handiwork.
Thanks, tintt
Very intelligent
Eero Saarinen's MIT Chapel.
Next:
It's two separate buildings with outdoor space between the two, but one project. Some hints, it's a Swedish religious structure consecrated 11 years later than tintt's building above.
Easy... Bauhaus Building, Dessau
Try this one instead
that looks like oma's kunsthalle in rotterdam
The isometric is the house and studio for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo by Juan O'Gorman.
*axonometric, isometric drawings make all 90° angles into 120° angles
Both of you are correct. Hi Orhan.
I think FRIDA was the last movie I saw in a theater. Anyway...
FLW's Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco
FLW - Xanadu Gallery!
Tadao Ando - Church of Light
Raymund Abraham's epic House for Music / Musikerhaus
Orhan never picked a plan for us to guess... here's the next one:
hint: the project was published (probably for the first time) in 1928
Quondam nailed it! Please pick the next plan for us to guess.
Chris, yes that's the "general plan" for the whole project. I will try scanning the other drawings from the Film Factory proposal and posting them here in a bit. Leonidov is a fascinating character, mostly notable because of the influence his student work (mostly the project for the Lenin Institute and Library) was acknowledged for having on Koolhaas/OMA/Rem's archi-progeny...
I. Leonidov, Lenin Institute (elevation, plan)
yes! the Voluntary Prisoners project draws some pretty direct influence from Leonidov's work on linear cities, such as his project for Magnitogorsk
https://thecharnelhouse.org/20...
while projects like OMA's Zeebrugge Terminal have been compared to the library building in Leonidov's Lenin Institute project (glass sphere held down by tension wires, see above)
I will try to scan the Moscow Film Factory drawings this weekend
Hi student here, got myself quite a puzzle.
Cant find no info, only got this picture. Any ideas anyone? Gotta solve it before the exam next week :V
1. not a plan 2. you did not guess one, you don't get to suggest one 3. do you think there might be a purpose to your teachers not giving you the full info prior to the exam? consult class notes and do some research ffs
did you ever figure it out?
It's a gorgeous graphite drawing, and the author's signature (illegible as it may be) is in the bottom right corner... On first look it bears a resemblance to M. Ginzburg's Narkomfin building, but it seems to have a distinctly southern european or maybe latin american vibe... The underside of the looming block (presumably of apartments, or maybe offices) is really interesting in that it seems to have some extraordinary curvature to it, and is split down the middle by a spine of glass (light fixtures?)... Beside the obvious nods to the 'five points' - pilotis, ribbon windows, free facade - the curved glass mass tucked under the main block further hints at some sort of a relation to Corbusier, in the same manner that Albert Frey's Loewy House does (see further down)
Narkomfin?what do you guys think?
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Seattle Library - OMA
Damn... reverse image search tells me I'm wrong.
no cheat needed for those curves - Carme Pinos, CaixaForum in Zaragosa, third floor cropped plan http://www.cpinos.com/index.ph...
well done you killed it;)
thanks! that's a great pick. the ground floor plan is also really interesting (http://www.archdaily.com/522894/caixaforum-zaragoza-estudio-carme-pinos/53b3ac12c07a80790f000295-caixaforum-zaragoza-estudio-carme-pinos-ground-floor-plan) and the project is extraordinary in section
I'll start this one with a hint:
This is a landscape project designed by an architect for a culturally-important group of buildings. It's not a building, but this is this architect's most famous work, by far.
Jardim Colombo, Sao Paulo?
No, but the date mentioned on the Wikipedia page that comes up when I google your suggestion is roughly a decade later than this project. This is in the northern hemisphere.
took a little bit of digging around, but once I figured out the site is the Acropolis, I could track down some really good info about this landscape project by Demetris Pikionis. Amazing project, questions the very notion of what a plan drawing is, and how it's translated into built form.
‘Plans and instructions are insufficient here, for the plan is not applicable as it stands, but serves only as a model representing a general idea which requires constant interpretation...what should be kept in mind is the ancient Greek motto, ‘make haste slowly'
Yes! Next, please.
1966, by a harvard alumni
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) by Emilio Duhart.
I'll post another plan shortly.
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Casa Malaparte, Adalberto Libera.
(I've just realized I need to figure out the previous building first.)
Oh - wait. never mind
Chris_Teeter - I suppose it does, especially when seen in close proximity to the Church of the Light plan
Marc Miller - well done!
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Love that house.
Next
Herzog and de Meuron with Ai Weiwei,
Serpentine Pavilion, 2012
Fuck me! That's gorgeous!
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Lina Bo Bardi - SECS Pompeia. The corridors on the right give it away.
I don't have a plan to post. Anyone?
Next:
Gio Ponti, Planchart residence in Caracas, 1954
I want to say 3rd floor plan - since that drawing is not in the Aria d'Italia volume on Ponti that is on my desk, and that monograph has drawings of the basement (1st) and ground (2nd) floors
not strictly a plan drawing, but I felt like including the elevation and axon as hints, because most hints for this project would probably be a dead giveaway and the drawings are gorgeous
second hint: it's a project developed in close collaboration between an architect and an artist, both native to that region
third hint: The artist has said that he did not chose this place for his art, but that the place chose him.
el peine del viento in san sebastian
Such a fascinating project! I haven't heard of this before.
JLC-1 got it! Somebody better guess what the Corb of a plan he posted earlier (I only got as far as figuring out the Josep Lluis Sert was likely Dean at the time the designer in question graduated from Harvard) or he can pick and post another one.
Eduardo Chillida's Wind Combs (Peine del Viento) with Plaza del Tenis designed in collaboration with Luis Peña Ganchegui, completed in 1977
http://peinedelviento.info/
http://www.plataformaarquitect...
video
I've obsessed with chillida for a long time, have you seen his tindaya mountain project? I hope it's built sometime.
Hint for the plan I posted; it's a latin american institution, and the building is in santiago, chile.
That last hint was needed: the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, Spanish acronym CEPAL) by Emilio Duhart.
http://www.plataformaarquitect...
Yeah, I figure, it's an awesome building, but largely unknown.
Oh dear, you know there's a book about this project. I'm going to have to read that!
This thread makes me feel like such a noob, only guessed the obvious Mies, OMA, Malaparte and Serpentine. Would be fun to do the same thread with only detail drawings to really make me feel I wasted all those years studying and still know nothing.
Next:
The architect sees it as more sacred than a house but less sacred than a church.
I would assume it's a tea house, but then I have no clue beyond that.
No, it's more final than that.
Lenin's Tomb
Not quite that final; final, but transitory.
Here's a hint. This image is not of the building in question; however, the building depicted has at least one thing in common with it.
Gion Caminada, renovation, Vrin
The picture below gave it away!
Right architect, right location, which project are you referring to?
Google says "Stiva da Morts". I've been to Vrin but can't recall every Caminada building there.
Yes, Stiva da morts.
Hey, no googling. That's cheating.
that's an amazing plan with crazy corners! never heard of this project or architect
Yes, the Stiva da morts is one of my favorite buildings (based on what I've read, haven't been able to visit).
I timed-out, anyway, the hint image is one of Zumthor's vacation houses, which also use stickbau.
Stiva da morts:
Next!
(I love this, it's like the ancient thread "Name that building")
habitat 67?
Def not habita.
i should have known (by looking)
I'd say it's spanish, has a modernistic gaudi feel to it.
My first guess was Nakagin Capsule Tower...and I realized it's footprint can't be that huge.
walden7?
Jose Antonio Coderch and Manuel Valls, Las Cocheras / Garage Apartments 1968-73!
I have about 100 photographs from when I visited there in 2010 :) amazing brickwork all over the place, great semi-private courtyards, and the gate to the property is a Gaudi original that was left when the parking garage, which once occupied the site, was demolished to make way for the housing project. (with a bronze bust of Gaudi nearby, I believe)
JLC-1 Bofill's Walden 7 is bigger, and has more interior voids, but definitely a similar approach to generating diversity through repetition and symmetry in plan
the Gaudi gate, my photo :)
easy one because I want to see someone guess it who hasn't participated yet (shame on all who have to google around for this one)
this was the evil seed for that sin, postmodernism.
does it even need hints? everything is in the drawing!
let's hope not!
Moore's Italia Piazza.
I hadn't noticed the similarity between that plan and Lebbeus Woods' Concentric Field until just now.
that's pretty cool, also reminds me of another plan drawing, which i might post here later ;)
cropped version of Piranesi's roof plan etching for the Pantheon...
My turn... I've been waiting to snag the spotlight!
Le Corbusier's Plan Obus for Algiers
Non Sequitur, will you post a plan for me?
Here JW, one of my favs.
The Monadnock Building in Chicago by Holabird and Roche.
half of it, actually. Here is the half by Burnham and Root:
The bay windows hint at the fact this is built in Chicago in 1880-1890s, and it is a memorable office plan in a building that set so many historic firsts. I also recommend looking into Owen Aldis for anyone interested in the developer behind some of Chicago's most notable early modern buildings
Good work
two floor plans, same building
hint: it's an unbuilt project, planned for the same city as above...
last hint: the architect would be turning 150 years old this year. I'm out of internet's reach for the next 4 days, good luck! if nobody gets this one by end of today, just move on for now - maybe Teeter can pick one
Is it Frank Lloyd Wright's National Life Insurance Building, 1923?
yes, jw468!
Next plan, assuming I was correct:
Something in Japan, judging from the tatami layout?
Yes.
Indirectly related image:
Yes, the Imperial Hotel. Look closer at those involved with the hotel, not Wright's other work.
Another indirectly related image:
One more related image:
Yes, Raymond.
Raymond + Corbusier = ?
Is it Antonin Raymond's Summer House? Inspired by (or a copy of) Le Corbusier's Mattias Errázuris House?
Yes!
Interesting project. Never heard of it. I originally followed exactly the same path as Chris from FLW to Raymond, but thought it was a long shot. There are no plans to be found online, and recent photos don't show the original retaining wall that is so present in the plan.
Yeah, it's an interesting house. It's been awhile since I read about it; however, if I remember correctly, Corbusier was initially not happy about the house at all, but at some point came around and included it in his Oeuvre Complète, in the third volume, I think, as an application of his principles.
Ok, here's another one.
Kahn was my first thought, too, because of its similarity to the Trenton Bath House.
Not Kahn, but clearly inspired by him. But there is an even stronger connection to somebody mentioned earlier in this thread: John Hejduk
I don't know the details, but I can imagine that Hejduk helped to introduce the work of his reclusive friend to a broader audience in the US in his last years. Here's another plan of him:
No
that Nordic Pavilion plan is awesome
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Lina Bo Bardi, Glass House.
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My first thought was a villa from Paulo Mendes da Rocha, but it doesn't have a pool.
Think hot, dry, glamorous, and mountainous. Also, a pictorial hint:
Loewy House by Albert Frey. The hint about the setting made me think Palm Springs right away, and all those rocks in plan suggested Frey's work.
SOM?
yes, but which building?
when it was completed in same year as Mies' Seagram building in NY - 1958 - it was one of the first skyscrapers to be built in Chicago's Loop in 20 years...
it also has the material it was built from as a namesake...
The Inland Steel Building. Beautiful.
you got it!
The design was started by Walter Netsch, who made the decision to move the service core out from the office floorplates (would be impossible with contemporary codes), and completed under Bruce Graham, who moved the columns past the floorplate perimeter.
cool video
a-f, you should pick a plan while people are trying to guess Nam's random challenge? it is supposed to be your turn, and maybe having two ongoing guess matches can keep this thread flowing a bit smoother...
this has been a very interesting thread, Teeter - thank you for that!
It has been interesting and has introduced me to architects I was previously unaware of!
Chris_Teeter, as the thread starter, can you post another plan?
Randomly came across this image today, thought why not post? I suck at this game...
it looks like the ground floor of a public building, either hotel or institutional (guessing by security/front desk location)...
One of your two guesses is correct
Is it Canadian?
the rooms are labelled in French (salle petit dejeuner = breakfast hall), so if it is Canadian, it'd likely be located in Quebec... could also be a sign that the architect is either French or Belgian?
and it is in Paris
I remember the building vividly with a bright green facade but am drawing blanks for anything else, I hate this game...
Yep that one, specifically
so - Hipark Hotel by Manuel Gautrand, for the record. It's got a neat figural quality! I would have never got there on my own.
randomised and a-f owe some plan picks
In all fairness, I didn't guess the plan, I only remembered the colour of the facade. Should have known it was Gautrand, I used to like here projects, kind of lost touch I guess. But okay I'm game.
Here it goes:
It's actually a one family home that includes a studio for guests.
it was hard to find, at first I looked into H&dM, never heard of Mark Magazine either; found Peripheriques work quite interesting.
MAISON GO, THIONVILLE
Yeah, really bold, playful,
conceptual, colour full and French, Manuelle Gautrand got me thinking of them again.
Yes, it's deceiving, that's why I thought it would be a nice one for this thread :) More info here: http://www.peripheriques-archi...
Hint: The architects were prominently featured in one of the first Mark Magazines.
Here's something a little different:
that's a pezo-von elrich.... thing. an installation for a park if I remember correctly.
The previous plan, that I probably shouldn't have posted, is still in the running btw :)
Yes, I think that will pass as a correct answer! "120 Doors" by Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Concepción.
really interesting to look at this plan in relation to Hejduk's plan for the House for Two Borthers posted earlier
1964 Same country as above.
I know this one, but I should let somebody else play :)
where are you from?
Chilean wife, por eso!
Que bien! Saludos.
Next:
Regarding the levels:
Indeed.
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Juliaan Lampens "Villa van Wassenhoeve"
A bit pricey to rent!
I didn't realize the house is rentable. Have you read the monograph? If not, and you'd like to, it's posted at https://issuu.com/toomas/docs/juliaan_lampens.
Another:
Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building in Chicago, 1889
iconic project with a breathtaking section
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That's insane!
Indeed, the section is cooler than the plan!
Here's a documentary if anybody's interested.
the plan does not have the same punch as the section, but is still extremely well resolved, and the curvature of the first tier balcony is the distinctive element that instantly gave the project away (for me). Revit? can you even imagine trying to resolve that ceiling in Revit???
here's an easy one to get more people playing - please try to restrain yourself if you have already guessed and posted a plan in here, let's give someone who has been feeling left out a chance :)
Pantheon Rome.
And another.
Nope. Correct continent. Wrong country.
Nope. Lots of concrete. Has some nice column connections.