Clemson University plans to lease space in downtown Charleston to house all of its locally based architecture and historic preservation programs until it decides on a permanent location.
The decision comes about eight months after the university scrubbed plans for a contemporary architecture center at George and Meeting streets. The proposed building’s sleek design sparked a lawsuit by neighborhoods and preservation groups.
— postandcourier.com
Previously: Clemson scraps its modern building plan
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Allied Works, Holl, Chipperfield or Ando... I don't think any of it will satisfy the traditionalists.
olaf, youre making my Bingler react.
the Clemson project is a nicely done project. The Charleston nimby's should be ashamed. its just too stoopid.
ha....and this is why you rolll down your windows, turn up the N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton tape in your Ford Pinto as you cruise by the genteel ladies getting out of Sunday service. Fuck you old people! Fuck you traditional loving conformists - Fuck You......oh wait they made a movie about N.W.A., I must be the old fuck traditional now...... - the new shit is Skrillex and Justin Bieber and on an IPOD.........go Shubow yourselves, all of you........cars drive by with the boomin systems........got your tradition right here (grabs crouch)............davvid would a giant Zaha Vagina be better? you know what they say about cranky people right - not enough sex!
a traditionalist solution to Zaha's Japanese stadium project would have been to add lots of plastic trim and moldings, would of saved the project. as architect critics would agree Easy-E said ""I didn't like using them chiniy-hat magnums, cuz it don't feel good like that, I usually rather do it raw, however that's how I caught the hee bee jee beez." problem with modernism stripped down of ornamental crimes......
To bad Robert Venturi is not still with us; he could make a "decorated shed" out of it by applying some architectural gee gaws (wink, wink). That should satisfy those pesky Charlestonians!
For those who are promoting the Clemson design - have any of you actually read Charleston's historic preservation ordinance?
".......got your tradition right here (grabs crouch)............davvid would a giant Zaha Vagina be better? you know what they say about......."
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"To bad Robert Venturi is not still with us..."
Robert Venturi is dead? Volunteer, shouldn't you call Denise Scott Brown, and let her know?
davvid not sure your images were helpful, you should of posted very contextual modern buildings. google probably can not help you find those, you may have to use your own mind....... davvid not sure why you forgot what you posted on the Japanese stadium by Zaha...........i tell you kids these day, dumber than olaf after 12 beers even with the assistance of Google..........
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Great. More rambling comments from Olaf.
with more substance too..........davvid what was your point about modern and Charleston again? you ramble so much i have a hard time finding aomething meaningful in any of your statements.
My point was that your suggestion that "Chipperfield, Holl, or Tado Ando would be more appropriate than what was presented" is off base.
on phone so hard to link but clearly have no idea what you are talking about and you showed all the wrong images......for christ sake the Landmarks Preservation Committe of NYC had Chipperfield give a speach at one of their shin digs. Holl in many place is practically Skandanavian (hint hint) and Ando did this concrete house right in the middle of a dense Japanese neighborhood (circa 1978).
Oolaf: "I think Chipperfield, Holl, or Tado Ando would be more appropriate than what was presented."
[what = Allied Works?]
Davvid: posts images of all the architects, you stated were more appropriate, and asks, really?
i use the googe to check......i stand by my statement. type in google images "allied works architecture" and take a wild guess which one is not like the others.........guess the rest was a funny misunderstanding.....need to drink more to get this sense making down.
Olaf, What are you talking about? Can't you just clearly state the point you are trying to make?
they missed the mark, horrifically. it's a very bad project, and even worse given the type of work they do.
It is not like their other projects and if I were to replace the names in my sentence which apparently was so baffling with long ass compound phrases this is how it would read.
"I think attention to rich materials within the context of the city lines and history, contrasting lightness and heaviness, materiality, color and light, raw materials, simple proportions matching the language of the city would be more appropriate than what was presented. make some modern contextual shit........" and that's the short version!
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