The showpiece is a staircase smack dab in the middle of the first-floor work room that leads to a second floor with a gaping white void painted red inside. Taranta says it's “reminiscent of a large droplet of water ready to fall from the ceiling.” Uh, yeah. If a “large droplet of water” looks exactly like a vagina. — fastcodesign.com
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...eww
I like that the chairs are in a pen so you cant roll too far. Would suck when your pencil rolls across the desk/floor/desk.
coolest office i've seen in a while
You don't need to by a psycho-therapist to notice the passive/aggressive symbolism here. This is way out there for an office space. Besides the vaginal/womb 'rite of passage' of the stairwell the less obvious cut/slashes in the floor (and bloody red in color!) are classic examples of breast biting/breast gash symbolism as interpreted by the Hannah Segal school of psycho-analytical aesthetics. Its all about mother. At least this ones dream is out in the open. I know and recognize. I did something like this as a student but mine had pink puncture holes in walls. Takes one to know one. Where is Salvador Dali when you need him?
eric chavkin
When its vaginal, its a "design crime." But Philip Johnson gets to hold is little Johnson/model of the AT&T building on the cover of time magazine and everyone's fine with it? http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1979/1101790108_400.jpg
Awkward!
A double check on meanings.
In the West red symbolizes blood, lust, passion. In China red means good luck, celebration, summoning . This office is in China.
My question is this: Is the psychology that i described in the previous comment applicable here? Or is the Freud-Melanie Klein-Hannah Segal symbolic interpretations of form and color trans-cultural ie a phallus is a phallus everywhere.
The origins of the projected expression stem from early-on childhood traumas, phases of identification etc. A biological based personality/ expression and not cultural. That would be the argument.
eric chavkin
I kinda like those sunken desks! Might not be convenient, but anyways, it seems curious.
And although your anatomical point is hilarious (and appreciated), I have to say that if your lady parts (or your lady's lady parts) look like this, maybe you should visit a doctor...
They must have been looking at Oscar's work....all of his buildings are designed with beautiful women in mind.
the brilliant move here is that - through making something that could trigger a little creative over-interpretation on the part of a critic - they've gotten what would normally be a cute small project in front of all of us on archinect.
i love it, i think the metaphor is a stretch, but don't even care if it was intentional. this is a nice project.
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